D. Boon
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D. Boon was the lead singer, guitarist and chief songwriter of seminal San Pedro punk trio the Minutemen in the early ‘80s. While on tour in December 1985, D. Boon was lying down unseatbelted in the back of the Minutemen’s van, sick with a fever. When the van accidentally ran off the road, D. Boon was thrown out the back door, breaking his neck and dying instantly. He was 27.