This day in music history.

April 5, 1998, Cozy Powell was killed when his car smashed into crash barriers on a motorway in Bristol, England. Cozy had worked with Whitesnake, ELP, Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Donovan, Roger Daltrey, Jack Bruce, Jeff Beck, Gary Moore and Brian May. Cozy was on his cell phone talking to his girlfriend at the time of the accident and he was driving over 80 miles an hour.