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It was on August 27 that the news broke. The first flash came over the Associated Press wire that Monday morning in 1990 at about seven o’clock: ‘Copter crash in East Troy, Wisconsin. Five fatalities, including a musician.’ Keen-eyed staffers at the Austin American-Statesman caught that item and began putting the pieces together as AP provided fresh details every half-hour: the mysterious ‘musician’ soon became ‘a member of Eric Clapton’s entourage’, and then ‘a guitarist’. By 9.30am, rumours spread that Stevie Ray Vaughan, Austin’s favourite son, was on board the crashed aircraft.At 11.30am Clapton’s manager confirmed the worst: Vaughan was indeed among the passengers in the five-seater helicopter that slammed into a fog-shrouded hillside near southeastern Wisconsin’s Alpine Valley ski resort.Stevie Ray had boarded the aircraft after a rousing

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