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MOR orchestra leader Mantovani dies aged 74 at a care home in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK, Europe. He was, accoring to the book British Hit Singles And Albums, "Britain's most successful album act before The Beatles ... the first act to sell over one million stereo albums and [have] six albums simultaneously in the American Top 30 in 1959."