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"If there was a day in my life I could take back, it would be that day": The death of Gram Parsons - a story of drugs, theft, and a burning corpse

Late in the evening of September 20, 1973, two drunken men wearing rhinestone jackets and cowboy hats drove a hearse into Los Angeles Airport and stole the corpse of country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons.
American Songwriter

On This Day: Two Men Plead Guilty for Stealing Gram Parsons Body, Police Called It “Gram Theft Parsons”

On November 6, 1973, Philip C. Kaufman and Michael D. Martin appeared in Los Angeles court to plead guilty to misdemeanor theft charges of their former business associate, Gram Parsons, who had died a ...
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Gram Parsons Emerges From the Lost and Found: How a Great, Misplaced 1973 Concert Tape Became One of the Record Store Day Hits of 2023

Love hurts, and so, if you’re a Gram Parsons fan, does the idea that the world has had to do without him for 50 years, as of September of this year. Imagining how his style might have changed over the ...
AOL

Remember the Controversy Over Gram Parsons’ Body After He Died?

Gram Parsons died on Sept. 19, 1973, bringing an end to the short, turbulent life of one of country music’s most gifted artists. But the craziness was just beginning. Parsons is remembered as one of ...
Los Angeles Magazine

Tale of a Lost Tape: How a New Gram Parsons Album Came to Life 50 Years After His Death

Singer/songwriter Gram Parsons wears a Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels T-shirt at a party in the park in June 1973 in Los Angeles Credit: (Photo by Ginny Winn/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) ...
Variety

Gram Parsons Emerges From the Lost and Found: How a Great, Misplaced 1973 Concert Tape Became One of the Record Store Day Hits of 2023

Parsons' daughter, Polly Parsons, and Amoeba co-founder Dave Prinz tell the tale of the tape — a superb set with Emmylou Harris that was released after 50 years for Record Store Day's Black Friday ...