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05/04/2006
Gene Pitney found dead in UK hotel
American singer Gene Pitney has been found dead in a hotel in Cardiff.
The 65-year-old star had been on a tour of the UK and had played a show at Cardiff's St David's Hall on Tuesday night. He had been due to play a show in Bristol tonight.
Pitney was found dead in his bed in his room at the Hilton Hotel in Cardiff around 10am on Wednesday morning. Police said that the death was not being treated as suspicious.
Mark Howes from Pitney's management company In Touch told the BBC that Pitney had been "fit and well" and showed no signs of illness.
Pitney rose to fame in the 1960s with a string of hit singles such as 'Twenty Four Hours To Tulsa', 'Only Love Can Break A Heart' and 'That Girl Belongs To Yesterday'. He enjoyed a return to the UK charts in 1989 when he duetted with Marc Almond on a new version of his hit 'Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart'.
He toured consistently over the past 40 years and had been on a 23-date UK tour at the time of his death.
(KMcA)
The 65-year-old star had been on a tour of the UK and had played a show at Cardiff's St David's Hall on Tuesday night. He had been due to play a show in Bristol tonight.
Pitney was found dead in his bed in his room at the Hilton Hotel in Cardiff around 10am on Wednesday morning. Police said that the death was not being treated as suspicious.
Mark Howes from Pitney's management company In Touch told the BBC that Pitney had been "fit and well" and showed no signs of illness.
Pitney rose to fame in the 1960s with a string of hit singles such as 'Twenty Four Hours To Tulsa', 'Only Love Can Break A Heart' and 'That Girl Belongs To Yesterday'. He enjoyed a return to the UK charts in 1989 when he duetted with Marc Almond on a new version of his hit 'Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart'.
He toured consistently over the past 40 years and had been on a 23-date UK tour at the time of his death.
(KMcA)
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