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The soul singer co-wrote one of the most poignant love songs ever recorded, and enjoyed numerous hits with the Drifters and as a solo artist

Her death occurred on the eve of her induction, with daughter Wynonna, into the Country Music Hall of Fame. The duo had just announced a tour

50 years earlier, a listener tells a Detroit DJ that when “Strawberry Fields Forever” is played backwards, a voice says, “Turn me on, dead man”