Clifford Lee Burton was born on February 10th, 1962 in Castro Valley, California, USA. As a youngster he always liked music, listening to genres such as blues, classical, country, and jazz, and he even liked the works of Mozart. He loved all kinds of music, and when he attended college, became educated in music theory. At the age of six, he learned to play his first instrument, the piano. When he became a teenager he learned to play the bass guitar and took lessons from September 1978 to Jan ...[Read Story]