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[00:00:17] These are the latest headlines
[00:00:19] from BBC News. Exit polls and two two state elections in Germany show
[00:00:23] show big losses for Chancellor Merkel's Merkel's CDU party. He describes
[00:00:27] describes the results as a disaster disaster for his party as AfD and
[00:00:30] and Die Linke make gains, Earl Spencer
[00:00:34] Spencer tells the BBC, writing his his book about his sister Princess
[00:00:37] Princess Diana was his duty as an an eyewitness to history and defends
[00:00:40] defends claims made about the King.
[00:00:43] King. At least two people are killed killed in the Moscow region after
[00:00:46] after a massive Ukrainian drone attack
[00:00:48] attack overnight. The mayor of Moscow
[00:00:50] Moscow claims 450 drones were directed directed at the city. Russia says
[00:00:53] says it's an attempt to disrupt the
[00:00:56] the country's parliamentary elections. elections. Ed Sheeran apologises
[00:00:59] apologises to fans for what he calls calls mistakes as he performs for
[00:01:03] for the first time since one of his
[00:01:04] his opening acts was dropped for
[00:01:07] for making pro-Palestinian remarks
[00:01:09] remarks on stage. Dolly Parton's
[00:01:20] Parton's death sparked a huge outpouring
[00:01:23] outpouring of love. Now on BBC News, News, we look at why she meant so
[00:01:26] so much to so many. Why the world
[00:01:29] world loved Dolly. And I. We are
[00:01:41] are Lord Wei. Dolly Parton was one
[00:01:44] one of the most recognisable entertainers entertainers on the planet. I would would have cried, but I didn't want
[00:01:48] want to mess up my eyelashes. She
[00:01:50] She was a country singer, a songwriter,
[00:01:53] songwriter, actress, businesswoman businesswoman and philanthropist. philanthropist. I always say, and
[00:01:56] and it's the truth that I am a workhorse workhorse that looks like a show
[00:02:00] show horse. She could act, she could could sing, she could write songs.
[00:02:02] songs. And she was the complete package. package. To millions across the globe.
[00:02:06] globe. Dolly Parton was a true one
[00:02:08] one off. A lady who I truly believe
[00:02:12] believe was the most beloved human
[00:02:14] human being in the world. Fans from
[00:02:17] from Nashville. Dolly, we love you you to. The north of England have
[00:02:21] have been celebrating the star's star's life. God bless her. It feels
[00:02:24] feels a little bit like when the
[00:02:26] the Queen died. It honestly does.
[00:02:30] does. This is how the world paid
[00:02:33] paid its respects to the undisputed
[00:02:35] undisputed queen of country. The The idea of a world without Dolly
[00:02:38] Dolly in it just doesn't seem real.
[00:02:48] real. The country music superstar superstar Dolly Parton has died in
[00:02:52] in Nashville at the age of 80. The
[00:02:56] The 25th of August 2026. The Stars Stars and Stripes are lowered over
[00:02:59] over the White House as news breaks breaks of Dolly Parton's death at
[00:03:03] at the age of 80. In New York, the
[00:03:06] the Empire State Building glows pink
[00:03:08] pink in honour of an American icon.
[00:03:12] icon. And in the town near her birthplace,
[00:03:15] birthplace, fans gather to
[00:03:19] mourn. Dolly is special. She is just just that diamond in a rhinestone rhinestone world. She was a very
[00:03:23] very peaceful person. I feel like like she just loved everyone no matter
[00:03:26] matter who they were, you know. She
[00:03:27] She was such an example of pure love.
[00:03:31] love. It doesn't matter what political
[00:03:34] political belief you have, it doesn't doesn't matter where you're from.
[00:03:38] from. It doesn't matter any of that. that. The confirmation of Dolly Parton's
[00:03:42] Parton's death was made in a post post on social media by her family.
[00:03:45] family. I'm representing the Parton Parton and Owens family today, announcing
[00:03:49] announcing the passing of my aunt
[00:03:51] aunt Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean sister
[00:03:53] sister sis, aunt granny to one generation
[00:03:55] generation and Gigi to the
[00:04:00] next. Major stars immediately started started writing about her online.
[00:04:02] online. Elton John called her unique
[00:04:05] unique and irreplaceable. Celine Celine Dion said she had one of the
[00:04:08] the most joyful voices the world
[00:04:10] world had ever known, and Beatles Beatles legend Paul McCartney described
[00:04:14] described how they first met in Nashville Nashville performing at the Grand
[00:04:17] Grand Old Opry. No matter who you
[00:04:22] you were, everyone knew who she was was and everyone had a good word
[00:04:25] word to say about her. And you cannot
[00:04:26] cannot say that about very many people.
[00:04:31] people. The Opry. Which is known known as the home of country music,
[00:04:34] music, quickly changed its schedule.
[00:04:38] schedule. With heavy hearts, we learned learned today of the passing of a
[00:04:41] a true country music icon, Opry member
[00:04:43] member Dolly Parton. No doubt Dolly's Dolly's mark on the world and on
[00:04:47] on us here at the Grand Ole Opry
[00:04:49] Opry will be deeply felt for generations
[00:04:52] generations to come. And on the south
[00:04:54] south coast of England in Worthing, Worthing, there were audible gasps
[00:04:58] gasps when her death was announced announced ahead of a performance
[00:05:00] performance of 9 to 5 the Musical. Musical. Before we begin tonight's
[00:05:04] tonight's performance of 9 to 5, 5, we would like to take a moment moment to remember the remarkable
[00:05:08] remarkable Dolly Parton, who has
[00:05:10] has sadly passed away today. It was
[00:05:14] was absolutely extraordinary. I was was in fact, I was sitting in the
[00:05:18] the stalls waiting for the show to to go up. It was quite something.
[00:05:22] something. And I think that it was
[00:05:23] was great to kind of be together together in that moment. There was
[00:05:27] was something about her that stood stood out and people were attracted
[00:05:31] attracted to her. The way she spoke
[00:05:33] spoke to them because she was so
[00:05:35] so normal and nice and kind and
[00:05:42] generous. Dolly died just a year year after her husband, Carl Dean. Dean. They'd been married for six
[00:05:45] six decades. On his death, Dolly Dolly wrote He's in God's arms now
[00:05:49] now and I'm OK with that. I am a
[00:05:53] a person of faith, and I truly believe believe that I'm going to see him
[00:05:56] him again someday. And I see him him every day in my memories and
[00:05:59] and in my heart and in all the things things that we used to do and all
[00:06:02] all the things that we built together.
[00:06:07] together. Just months after her husband's husband's death, fears for Dolly's
[00:06:11] Dolly's own health started to appear
[00:06:13] appear in the press, prompting messages
[00:06:15] messages of reassurance. The good
[00:06:18] good news is I'm responding really
[00:06:20] really well to meds and treatments
[00:06:23] treatments and I'm improving every
[00:06:24] every day. In early August 2026,
[00:06:28] 2026, she posted about her upcoming upcoming projects, including a Dolly
[00:06:31] Dolly Parton musical, which is due
[00:06:32] due to open on Broadway in December
[00:06:35] December 2026. I will be there as
[00:06:37] as much as I can be and of course,
[00:06:40] course, good Lord willing and the the Creek don't rise. I will definitely
[00:06:43] definitely be there on the opening opening night. And she was looking
[00:06:46] looking forward to the opening of
[00:06:47] of her hotel in Nashville. From rags
[00:06:51] rags to rhinestones. I've been blessed
[00:06:53] blessed with a life full of stories. stories. And now I finally get to
[00:06:57] to share them all with you in one
[00:07:01] one place. I think the first time time we realised that it was actually
[00:07:04] actually something more serious was was when in May, when her Vegas residency
[00:07:08] residency was cancelled, because because that is a very big thing. thing. At that point we knew she
[00:07:12] she wasn't well enough to perform perform probably ever again. And
[00:07:16] And in recent times, you know, there there have been a few things she's she's missed. She missed her 80th
[00:07:20] 80th anniversary celebration at the the Grand Ole Opry. Even, I think
[00:07:23] think just over ten days before she she died, she was meant to be at
[00:07:26] at her theme park in Pigeon Forge,
[00:07:28] Forge, Dollywood, and opening one one of their new rides. And she pulled
[00:07:31] pulled out at the last minute. Her
[00:07:36] Her death, after what was described described as a brief battle with
[00:07:40] with cancer, was a shock to millions. millions. We texted each other straight
[00:07:43] straight away being like, oh, my my God. Immediately you start to
[00:07:46] to reminisce about all the small small and big things that have happened
[00:07:50] happened throughout her career and and throughout our career that she
[00:07:53] she has been unknowingly very influencing. influencing. She's got such an amazing
[00:07:56] amazing story of how she started
[00:07:58] started out, how she has like impacted
[00:08:01] impacted the industry as a whole
[00:08:03] whole so positively. So just how
[00:08:08] how could a woman from rural Tennessee Tennessee spark such an outpouring
[00:08:11] outpouring of grief from around the
[00:08:14] the world? Dolly Rebecca Parton was
[00:08:18] was born in Tennessee into a large large family. She described in her
[00:08:21] her own words as dirt poor. I grew grew up in the Great Smoky Mountains
[00:08:24] Mountains of East Tennessee in a a family of 12 children. We had six
[00:08:28] six girls and six boys and of course
[00:08:30] course we were just farm folks and and we didn't have things that money
[00:08:33] money could buy. And of course we we didn't make money. We grew our
[00:08:36] our own food and we just made our
[00:08:38] our living from the land. She said
[00:08:41] said she was inspired to sing by by one of her uncles, who suggested
[00:08:44] suggested she did one day, and then
[00:08:45] then obviously she had a real talent.
[00:08:48] talent. In this footage. Shot by
[00:08:50] by an amateur filmmaker in 1961,
[00:08:53] 1961, Dolly plays for a local radio radio station in Knoxville, Tennessee.
[00:08:56] Tennessee. The world famous Grand Grand Ole Opry, America's oldest
[00:09:00] oldest and most famous country music
[00:09:02] music show. On Arkansas. King Khalid
[00:09:04] Khalid Tolu. At the age of 13, she she made her first appearance at
[00:09:08] at the home of country music, the the Grand Ole Opry. So I just walked
[00:09:12] walked up to Jimmy C Newman and I I said, Jimmy, I want to sing. So
[00:09:15] So he told Johnny Cash that I was was going to sing, and Johnny introduced
[00:09:18] introduced me and I sang my little little heart out and I just tore tore the house down. I know now it
[00:09:22] it was because I was little, but but I just sang it over and over over and over. Boy, I thought then
[00:09:26] then I was going to be a big star. The Grand Ole Opry was, was
[00:09:30] was very much about family and things,
[00:09:32] things, and if an uncle knew someone someone then they would have said,
[00:09:35] said, this is going to be worth doing doing when you go to the Opry, it's
[00:09:38] it's quite often there'll be somebody somebody there who's a relative of
[00:09:40] of someone famous. It was the start
[00:09:44] start of a long association with with the Opry, and Nashville was
[00:09:47] was where she met her husband, Carl.
[00:09:48] Carl. She wanted to be a star and
[00:09:51] and she found someone who was something something of a recluse and was quite
[00:09:55] quite happy if she wasn't taking
[00:09:56] taking him to things. Dolly is not
[00:10:02] not only a great singer, but she's she's a fine songwriter too. And
[00:10:05] And this is a number you wrote isn't. isn't. Nashville is a hard town to
[00:10:08] to break into in the music industry. industry. It takes a lot. So she
[00:10:12] she had that talent. She put the
[00:10:13] the hard work in and she was successful
[00:10:16] successful and kind of took those those opportunities. I would be doing
[00:10:19] doing my music, writing my songs songs if I had to sell them out of
[00:10:22] of the trunk of my car. And I've I've done that in the early days
[00:10:25] days when I was young and trying trying to get things going. So I
[00:10:29] I would do it no matter what, even even if I had to take another job.
[00:10:33] job. Jolene. Jolene. Jolene. Jolene.
[00:10:38] Jolene. Her music was rooted in personal personal experiences of love and
[00:10:41] and loss. Like Jolene, for example,
[00:10:45] example, there was a lot of songs songs at that time about like being
[00:10:48] being sassy to the Woman or You Ain't Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man.
[00:10:51] Man. And she brought a song out that that was empathetic to the woman.
[00:10:55] woman. She was like understanding understanding why the woman would
[00:10:58] would take her man, but she was pleading pleading from a vulnerable perspective
[00:11:02] perspective rather rather than from from an angry perspective or like like a woman hating spectrum. Yeah.
[00:11:06] Yeah. So she was still a woman's
[00:11:07] woman's woman. My coat of many colours
[00:11:11] colours that my mama made for me.
[00:11:14] me. Dolly was a storyteller who would
[00:11:16] would turn to her own family for
[00:11:18] for material. Her upbringing in the
[00:11:21] the Smoky Mountains, lots of siblings siblings growing up very, very poor.
[00:11:25] poor. She wrote songs like The Coat Coat of Many Colours, which is about
[00:11:27] about her mama who made her this this coat. She writes about being
[00:11:31] being poor, about not knowing how how to read. It was very much rooted
[00:11:35] rooted in family values, and she
[00:11:37] she continued that in all of her
[00:11:39] her writing throughout her career. The most important thing
[00:11:42] thing in her life from the beginning beginning to the end was her family.
[00:11:46] family. She didn't go off and find
[00:11:48] find a different husband. She. She
[00:11:51] She didn't change the way she was. was. I think she wanted to be Dolly
[00:11:55] Dolly Parton professionally, but but privately she was Dolly Dean,
[00:11:57] Dean, which was the name on all the the paperwork we had because again,
[00:12:01] again, if she went through passport passport control looking as she normally
[00:12:05] normally did not as Dolly Parton, Parton, no one would have realised
[00:12:08] realised who she was. In her lifetime.
[00:12:10] lifetime. Dolly Parton wrote more
[00:12:12] more than 3000 songs and sold over over 100 million records, becoming
[00:12:16] becoming one of the most successful successful country artists of all
[00:12:18] all time. I'm proud to be a woman
[00:12:21] woman in this business. Dolly started started out and continued, no matter
[00:12:23] matter how big she got, writing her
[00:12:26] her own material and being the voice
[00:12:29] voice of her own songs. And obviously obviously we've heard some massive
[00:12:32] massive covers like I Will Always
[00:12:34] Always Love You and people will cover cover Dolly forever. We've covered
[00:12:38] covered Jolene and 9 to 5 and hopefully
[00:12:40] hopefully many more. E! I should
[00:12:45] should stay. Dolly wrote songs that
[00:12:48] that other artists were desperate desperate to get their hands on,
[00:12:52] on, including stars like The King,
[00:12:54] King, Elvis Presley. So I'm going.
[00:12:57] going. Elvis heard the song and wanted
[00:12:59] wanted to record it and he was very very keen, but the manager rang up
[00:13:03] up and said, If Elvis records a song, song, we have half the publishing.
[00:13:06] publishing. And Dolly said, no. And
[00:13:11] And I. Will half way love you. And
[00:13:18] And this is the business side of of her coming through for sure. And
[00:13:22] And then several years after that,
[00:13:25] that, Whitney Houston sang it and
[00:13:28] and The Bodyguard and it was it sold
[00:13:30] sold like 20 million copies. That
[00:13:32] That single. When she brought country country to Glastonbury, her popularity
[00:13:36] popularity pulled in an enormous enormous crowd. Among them were the
[00:13:39] the British Country act Ward Thomas.
[00:13:44] Thomas. In 2014 was the year that that we first released our first
[00:13:47] first ever album, and it was the
[00:13:48] the same year that she played Glastonbury
[00:13:51] Glastonbury and pulled the biggest biggest audience of the weekend.
[00:13:54] weekend. And I think with two young young British girls saying we want
[00:13:57] want to do country music and going going out into the world and saying,
[00:14:00] saying, hey, will you take us seriously? seriously? I think if it wasn't for
[00:14:04] for people like Dolly or specifically specifically Dolly and what she had had done before, people
[00:15:07] pushing towards this digital transformation. transformation. Just as President
[00:15:10] President Xi heads to the White House.
[00:15:12] House. Join me Laura Bicker on BBC
[00:15:15] BBC News. MUSIC
[00:15:24] MUSIC In In a world away from music, Dolly
[00:15:27] Dolly fought to be taken seriously. seriously. By this kind of work without
[00:15:31] without fear because it's fun for for me. It's like if I fail, it's it's no big deal. If something don't
[00:15:35] don't work out, I'm not afraid of of failure because to me I never
[00:15:39] never feel like a loser. But Dolly Dolly was not a loser. In addition
[00:15:43] addition to her musical success, success, she became an acclaimed
[00:15:46] acclaimed actress and she was also
[00:15:48] also behind many business ventures. ventures. Her last public appearance
[00:15:51] appearance was at the opening of of Dolly's Tennessean travel
[00:15:55] stop. We're not trying to compete compete with anybody. We don't think think we'll have to. We think we're
[00:15:58] we're going to have everything that
[00:15:59] that you want or need. But her most
[00:16:04] most famous business venture is Dollywood, Dollywood, a theme park near where
[00:16:07] where she was raised in the Smoky
[00:16:09] Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Come
[00:16:11] Come on down to Dollywood, come on on down to Dollywood, you'll have
[00:16:15] have fun and we'll treat you good. good. So come on down to Dollywood.
[00:16:19] Dollywood. It's better on fast songs. songs. Paradise roads. Not that fast. fast. Might as well play the bongos
[00:16:22] bongos while I'm here. I took the
[00:16:26] the family to Dollywood in 2003,
[00:16:28] 2003, and I did ask how many of Dolly's Dolly's relatives work here, and
[00:16:31] and it was over 40 people she was was employing. She had this enormous
[00:16:35] enormous number of relatives and and people that she knew, and she
[00:16:38] she was very concerned to help them them not doing things for them, but
[00:16:41] but giving them jobs and things like
[00:16:43] like that. Dolly's appeal reached
[00:16:46] reached far beyond music. Her support
[00:16:47] support for minority groups, particularly
[00:16:50] particularly in the LGBTQ community, community, was legendary. Working
[00:16:54] Working 9 to 5. What a way to make
[00:16:56] make a living barely getting by.
[00:16:59] by. Her 9 to 5 co-star Jane Fonda's
[00:17:02] Fonda's tribute included a poignant
[00:17:04] poignant reminder of Dolly's solidarity
[00:17:07] solidarity with her fans. She wrote wrote to her gay and trans fans I
[00:17:10] I want you to know that she loved loved you, adding that she loved
[00:17:13] loved all her fans and they are legion.
[00:17:16] legion. I think the world we live live in at the moment, it's tough,
[00:17:20] tough, it's difficult for a lot of of people and actually you want to
[00:17:23] to have someone or something that that you can kind of look to make
[00:17:26] make you feel good about yourself. yourself. And Dolly, she made people
[00:17:29] people feel good about herself, whether whether it was her performances, performances, whether it was her
[00:17:33] her mantras. I mean, she's got so so many quotes that I live by every every single day. It takes a lot
[00:17:37] lot of money to look this cheap. cheap. Did you say that? Well. Yeah,
[00:17:40] Yeah, I said that and I meant that that a lot of people think that's that's a joke. That's the biggest
[00:17:44] biggest truth I ever told. You have
[00:17:46] have no idea how much it costs to
[00:17:48] to make a person look this cheap.
[00:17:51] cheap. She was often pressed by journalists journalists to comment on political
[00:17:55] political issues, but used her trademark
[00:17:57] trademark warmth and humour to deflect
[00:17:59] deflect difficult questions. It was
[00:18:02] was very significant that President
[00:18:04] President Trump put up a positive
[00:18:07] positive tribute to her, and she she was someone who clearly didn't
[00:18:10] didn't believe in a lot of things things that he did. But she managed
[00:18:14] managed to always not get political,
[00:18:16] political, never to cross a line. line. And that was something in a
[00:18:20] a way that was a legacy that she's she's passed on. Because if you want
[00:18:23] want to be like Dolly Parton, you you could be so successful. I don't
[00:18:27] don't think of myself at all as being being political. And that's the worst
[00:18:31] worst thing that I could think about. about. So there will never be a time
[00:18:35] time when Dolly Parton says, I'm
[00:18:37] I'm gonna run for office. That's
[00:18:39] That's never gonna happen. From office.
[00:18:43] office. Actually, they're back home. home. They have a lot of signs everywhere.
[00:18:46] everywhere. Dolly for president and
[00:18:48] and I my joke is no, we've had enough
[00:18:51] enough boobs in the White House. House. Republicans love her. Democrats
[00:18:54] Democrats love her. She never, ever ever brought politics into her music.
[00:18:58] music. I think she spoke to people people through the work she did and
[00:19:01] and through the song lyrics she wrote.
[00:19:03] wrote. Dolly's support for what she she deemed worthwhile causes is renowned.
[00:19:07] renowned. You got it. I got it. OK?
[00:19:10] OK? I didn't hurt. Dolly donated donated significant amounts of her
[00:19:13] her fortune to the causes she believed believed in. She pledged $1 million
[00:19:17] million to support vaccine research research during the Covid pandemic.
[00:19:21] pandemic. OK, I'm joking. You do. do. What you gotta do. Even getting
[00:19:24] getting behind campaigns to encourage encourage people to get vaccinated.
[00:19:28] vaccinated. She was a force for good good in the world, and she was someone someone that we could all kind of
[00:19:31] of turn to whenever things got tough. tough. So and I the idea of a world
[00:19:35] world without Dolly in it, it just
[00:19:38] just doesn't seem real. Vaccine,
[00:19:41] Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine. Vaccine.
[00:19:43] Vaccine. I'm begging of you. Please Please don't hesitate. Hello, I'm
[00:19:47] I'm Dolly. Do you love books? Me
[00:19:49] Me too. Dolly knew how to connect
[00:19:52] connect with people. In 2015, she
[00:19:54] she adopted a well-known East Midlands
[00:19:56] Midlands phrase to promote the expansion expansion of her Imagination Library
[00:20:00] Library Project, a global scheme scheme that sends free books to children.
[00:20:04] children. Hey everybody, this is
[00:20:05] is Dolly. Or should I say hey up
[00:20:08] up me duck. I hope I said that right right because if I didn't, everybody
[00:20:12] everybody in Nottingham is going going to be offended. There's so
[00:20:15] so many children that may have grown grown up illiterate if it hadn't
[00:20:18] hadn't been for her Imagination Library. Library. And that's her money going
[00:20:22] going into completely non-profit. non-profit. But to help young children
[00:20:25] children learn to read, which is is obviously something that was very very important to her, especially
[00:20:29] especially as someone that's such
[00:20:29] such a way of words. Thank you for
[00:20:33] for my books, Ali. You are welcome.
[00:20:37] welcome. You're the one who makes makes it worthwhile. In Dundee, this
[00:20:40] this dolly superfan and local councillor councillor helped set up the city's
[00:20:44] city's branch of the Imagination Imagination Library. He says she'll
[00:20:47] she'll be remembered forever. So So we had a launch event and I do
[00:20:51] do remember the door had opened and and this we thought she was only
[00:20:54] only about 2 or 3. As soon as the the door opened she saw the dolly dolly stand up and she went. Dolly
[00:20:57] Dolly and went running to Dolly. Dolly. So I suppose the legacy I
[00:21:00] I hope to leave for children in Dundee, Dundee, Scotland. The world is that
[00:21:04] that every time they open a book, book, the legacy of Dolly Parton Parton will live on forever. And
[00:21:08] And even the Prime Minister recognised
[00:21:10] recognised her philanthropy. I was
[00:21:12] was a huge fan of what Dolly did
[00:21:15] did around literacy, around the world. world. I was culture secretary when
[00:21:18] when her libraries were first coming coming through, and the books that
[00:21:22] that went into communities across
[00:21:24] across Britain, you know what a legacy
[00:21:27] legacy to leave. The Royal Family
[00:21:29] Family said she brought joy, comfort
[00:21:32] comfort and inspiration as the King's King's Guard played 9 to 5 outside
[00:21:35] outside Buckingham Palace in honour
[00:21:37] honour of the Queen of country. And
[00:21:46] And the band will play on for Dolly
[00:21:49] Dolly even after her death. I think
[00:21:54] think the plan she's had are going going to come together. Her team team are going to put them out and
[00:21:57] and they're still unreleased music music as well. Apparently that is
[00:22:00] is still to come. So I think she she still has it all worked out and
[00:22:03] and I'm actually really excited to to see the plans because I know this
[00:22:07] this isn't the end of what we're we're going to see of Dolly. The
[00:22:10] The weekend after her death at festivals festivals in the UK, Dolly Parton
[00:22:13] Parton was honoured with renditions
[00:22:15] renditions of her most famous tracks.
[00:22:18] tracks. I've grown up on artists artists like Dolly Parton, of course
[00:22:21] course we lost an icon. We played played Jolene on the first set as
[00:22:25] as a little tribute to Dolly. This This is. Oh, she's just beautiful.
[00:22:29] beautiful. It's heart and soul of of country. And how did you feel
[00:22:32] feel when you found out the sad news news really let down? Your girlfriend
[00:22:35] girlfriend cried for two days. She She was upset. She was very upset.
[00:22:39] upset. Just been there from day one
[00:22:42] one for all the country fans. Yeah,
[00:22:43] Yeah, God bless her. And in Nashville
[00:22:48] Nashville in Tennessee country's country's megastars remembered Dolly
[00:22:51] Dolly with a special show at the
[00:22:54] the Opry. We promise to never forget
[00:22:58] forget you and we'll think of you
[00:23:01] you each step of the way. MUSIC
[00:23:10] MUSIC Dolly Dolly once said, never ignore your
[00:23:12] your roots, your home or your hair. hair. It's guidance that she stayed
[00:23:16] stayed true to throughout a seven
[00:23:17] seven decade career that saw countless
[00:23:21] countless accolades for her singing,
[00:23:22] singing, songwriting and philanthropy.
[00:23:26] philanthropy. Everybody should be be who they are, and I even wrote wrote a song called Whatever You
[00:23:30] You Are. Be that. Whatever you do, do, do that anything else is just
[00:23:33] just an act. So whoever you are,
[00:23:34] are, be that. And so I feel. You're
[00:23:37] You're the best person in the world.
[00:23:40] world. Dolly. Dolly Parton. A courageous
[00:23:45] courageous and talented trailblazer trailblazer for country music at
[00:23:47] at a time when women were not taken
[00:23:50] taken seriously in the industry, industry, especially as solo artists. artists. I feel I should share this
[00:23:54] this with all the girls that I just just sang a song with. To the Right.
[00:23:58] Right. Dolly Parton. When I have have all these women say that I've
[00:24:01] I've inspired them, it makes me feel feel proud that I've done something
[00:24:04] something right. I think we'll remember
[00:24:06] remember Dolly Parton as a one-off.
[00:24:08] one-off. She was a once in a lifetime lifetime person. I'm so grateful
[00:24:11] grateful that we got to be on earth earth at the same time, I know I
[00:24:15] I think we always remember Dolly Dolly as a bright, colourful soul
[00:24:18] soul that was on this earth. I've
[00:24:21] I've had a wonderful life. I have have so many people to thank, but
[00:24:25] but none more than you. My fans.
[00:24:28] fans. I will always love you. So
[00:24:30] So thank you. Her music has just
[00:24:33] just been there for me through everything. everything. So as a fan it is really
[00:24:36] really sad that she's not here any
[00:24:38] any more. But I'm going to continue.
[00:24:41] continue. I'm going to continue living living like Dollywood and you know,
[00:24:44] know, use the lessons she taught
[00:24:47] taught me. Dolly Parton, the country
[00:24:50] country singer and songwriter from from the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee,
[00:24:54] Tennessee, will be remembered for
[00:24:56] for her warmth, wit and immense talent.
[00:24:59] talent. And of course, her hit songs.
[00:25:31] MUSIC
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[00:30:21] CDU party. He describes the results results as a disaster for his party,
[00:30:25] party, with AfD and Die Linke making
[00:30:29] making gains Earl Spencer tells the the BBC, writing his book about his
[00:30:32] his sister Princess Diana was his his duty as an eyewitness to history
[00:30:36] history and defends claims he made
[00:30:37] made about the King. I'm reporting
[00:30:41] reporting every word in this book. book. I report exactly as I saw it
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[00:30:47] I was surprised at the giddiness giddiness of his tone. That's what
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