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Fact #95084

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Jay Bennett, best-known as a guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, engineer, producer and singer-songwriter with the Chicago-based band Wilco, dies unexpectedly in his sleep, aged 45, in Urbana, Illinois, USA. The Champaign County coroner will conclude that Bennett's death was accidental - the result of an overdose of the prescription painkiller fentanyl, which he took to cope with severe pains in his hip.