Category: COUNTRY MUSIC LEGENDS
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Death of a patriot
The country superstar, who died of stomach cancer on Monday, February 5, at the age of 62, gave three sold-out concerts in Las Vegas just two months before his death. The concerts were billed as his ‘triumphant return to the stage’ — but they would be his last. ‘Toby Keith passed peacefully last night on…
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‘He said his name Bojangles and he danced a lick, Across the cell…’
Outlaw country singer Jerry Jeff Walker wrote ‘Mr Bojangles’ after a stint in a New Orleans drunk tank in 1965 with an unknown tap-dancing drifter.
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Patsy Cline cheated death twice — and then her luck ran out
Patsy Cline cheated death twice. The country music legend escaped death twice, at 13 and at 28, but her luck ran out at the age of 30.
Mary Saves the Day 