Death of George Jones

September 12, 1931 - April 26, 2013
Nashville, Tennessee | Age 81

Country superstar has died at 81
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CHRIS TALBOTT, The Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — George Jones, the peerless, hard-living country singer who recorded dozens of hits about good times and regrets and peaked with the heartbreaking classic "He Stopped Loving Her Today," has died. He was 81.

Jones died Friday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, according to his publicist Kirt Webster. He had been hospitalized with fever and irregular blood pressure, forcing him to postpone two...

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