Sep 19, 2023 · 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.

Nov 6, 2024 · A tour manager and roadie stealing Gram Parsons’ body from a Los Angeles airport by telling officials they had a sexual encounter to get back to sounds like an uncouth music industry joke, but...

Gram Parsons died on September 19, 1973, in room eight of the Joshua Tree Inn, near Joshua Tree National Park. Encouraged by his road manager Phil Kaufman , Parsons again visited the park after completing his latest recording sessions.

Nov 6, 2015 · Parsons died from a massive overdose of morphine and alcohol on Sept. 19, 1973. In honor of a mutual pact they had shared, his friend and tour manager Phil Kaufman – whose …

Sep 19, 2012 · After Gram Parsons died in 1973, his body went on an unusual journey. In a rare live video of Parsons, he sings about another journey in Streets of Baltimore.

Sep 19, 2024 · Gram Parsons died from an overdose of drugs and alcohol on Sept. 19, 1973, at the age of 26. (Most accounts agree that he probably died on Sept. 18, but Parsons was declared dead on Sept. 19 upon...

Sep 4, 2022 · As a young rock and roller with a tendency to party hard, Gram Parsons reportedly drank heavily and used heroin (per Rolling Stone). By 1973, he had been kicked out of numerous bands for his unruly drug habits.

Out of the blue a friend of mine told me that he had a old police photograph of the Gram Parsons crime scene in the Joshua Tree National Park from the day of the incident. He soon emailed me a scanned copy of the 1973 photo which seems to be authentic and I have no reason to doubt.

Aug 30, 2019 · The park's ban on fires proved to be the flaw in the near-perfect crime. Campers spotted the smoke and reported it to police. Authorities later identified and arrested Kaufman and Martin.

Feb 27, 2023 · Gram Parsons was 12 years old. Within a year of the death of Ingram "Coon Dog" Connor by his own hand at Christmas, his widowed wife and suddenly single mother of two young children, Avis Snively Connor, remarried.