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Fact #76407

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Western swing fiddle virtuoso Spade Cooley is briefly released from jail, where he is serving a life sentence for murdering his wife, to allow him to play in a benefit concert in Oakland, California, USA. In his dressing room after the show, Cooley suffers a heart attack and dies.