Ike Turner Dead at 76
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Ike Turner, the legendary musician and former husband of Tina Turner, has died at 76, TMZ.com reports.  Turner died in his home outside San Diego, according to the report. No other details were immediately available.  Born and raised in Clarksdale,...
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AUSTIN, Texas  - Former Texas first lady Nellie   Connally, who was riding in the limousine with President John   F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in 1963, has died at the   age of 87, a family friend said on Saturday.
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Rock 'n' roll pioneer Ike Turner's death last month at age 76 was caused by a cocaine overdose, the San Diego County Medical Examiner's office said Wednesday.
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Controversial comedian, whose jokes saw him  banned around the country, dies aged 76.
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Ike Turner's funeral was part memorial service, part rock concert. The nearly three-hour remembrance Friday at Greater Bethany Community Church of Refuge in Gardena featured Turner's eight-piece band, the Kings of Rhythm, which performed rollicking renditions of some of the musician's greatest hits, including "Nutbush City Limits" and "Proud Mary."
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Jerry Scoggins, who sang the theme tune to US TV show The Beverly Hillbillies, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 93.
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US television evangelist Tammy Faye Messner has died aged 65 after a long battle with cancer.
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Comedian Johnny Carson, the king of  U.S. late-night television as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show"  for nearly 30 years, died on Sunday at age 79 after a long  battle with emphysema.
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Artie Shaw, the famed bandleader of the 1930s swing era, has died at home today at the age of 94. His attorney says Shaw died of natural causes, and had been ill for some time.
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By Steve Vantreese, The Paducah Sun, Ky. Jun. 16-- -- Doug Travis' 60 years of service as a conservation educator ended the way he always said they would. He died.
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The late rock 'n' roll pioneer Ike Turner died of a cocaine overdose, the San Diego County medical examiner said on Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES: Legendary US bandleader and jazz clarinettist Artie Shaw, the big band era&#39;s reluctant King of Swing, died today at the age of 94, the manager of his orchestra said.
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Howard Keel, the tireless song-and-dance man who took a late career encore as a patriarch on the prime-time TV soap opera &quot;Dallas,&quot; died yesterday, hours before the nationally televised reunion of the show&#39;s cast.
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Rock 'n' roll pioneer Ike Turner, whose achievements as one of the founding fathers of the genre were overshadowed by ex-wife Tina Turner's claims that he regularly beat her for almost two decades, died on Wednesday at his home near San Diego. He was 76.
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LOS ANGELES: Academy Award-winning composer Elmer Bernstein, who penned scores for blockbusters ranging from To Kill a Mockingbird and The Magnificent Seven to Ghostbusters has died at the age of 82.
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Ahmet Ertegun, who helped define American music as the founder of Atlantic Records, a label that popularized the gritty R&amp;B of Ray Charles, the classic soul of Aretha Franklin and the British rock of the Rolling Stones, has died, his spokesman said. He was 83.
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Legendary country, rock and jazz guitarist Hank Garland, who performed with Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Patsy Cline, Charlie Parker and many others, has died at the age of 74.