On October 29, 1971, Duane Allman – lead guitarist and spiritual general of the Allman Brothers Band – died in a motorcycle accident in his band's adopted hometown of Macon, Georgia. He was 24. Allman's passing and the loss a year later of bassist Berry Oakley, on his bike in a collision with a bus near the site where Allman crashed, marked the end of the group's first prime time – the Allmans had recently issued their landmark third album, At Fillmore East – but not the story.
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