Influential Rock-Country musician,
Gram Parsons* died on Sept. 19, 1973.
His coffin would be hauled out into the desert where his friends set his body on fire. What a fun little story this is:
The Death of Gram Parsons.
* Not Graham Parker (& the Rumour); also not Allen Parsons (Project). He is Gram Parsons. Possibly he was named after a gram of cocaine.