Tributes pour in after country music legend Dolly Parton, 80, dies following ‘brief battle with cancer’ – latest updates

Country music icon Dolly Parton has died at eighty after what was described as a brief battle with cancer, The Guardian reports. Tributes have poured in from figures including Reba McEntire, Lily Tomlin, Dionne Warwick, and Kacey Musgraves. In the UK, BBC Radio 2's Jo Whiley marked the news by playing three of Parton's best-known songs, I Will Always Love You, Jolene, and 9 to 5, during her evening show.

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