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Pioneering country music singer, Jean Shepard, dies of Parkinson's Disease, aged 82, in Hendersonville, Tennessee, USA. In her long career, she released a total of 73 singles to the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, and recording a total of 24 studio albums between 1956–81.