Berry Oakley of The Allman Brothers Band

On November 11 1972, Allman Brothers bass player Berry Oakley was killed when his motorcycle hit a bus at the same intersection as former band member Duane Allman, who had died a year earlier. Oakley was 24 years old.




The Allman Brothers suffered their first blow, when Duane Allman died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash on October 29, in the group's home base of Macon, GA. The Allmans finished up their next album (which was halfway complete when Allman died), Eat a Peach, which became the group's first Top Ten hit shortly after release.
A year after Allman's passing, things were beginning to look up once more for the group. The band lived together in a house in Macon (including Oakley's family), with the bassist assuming Duane's previous position as "leader" of the group. But on November 11, 1972, lightning struck twice. Oakley was riding his motorcycle with a member of the Allman Brothers' road crew, when they collided into a bus (just three blocks from where Allman met his fate). At first refusing medical attention, friends eventually took Oakley to the same hospital Allman was treated at, and he died from head injuries and internal bleeding later that night. Oakley and Allman were buried next to one other (with matching tombstones) in the Carnation Ridge section of Macon's Rose Hill Cemetery.

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