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DICKEY BETTS December 1943 to April 2024

“I’ve definitely lived a dangerous life,” Dickey Betts once admitted, and you only had to see him to know it. A stern gunslinger with a cowboy hat, handlebar moustache and ’57 Goldtop, Betts’ outlaw stage presence in The Allman Brothers Band often bled into his hairy personal life. Despite that, his passing on 18 April aged 80 meant he

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