{"id":319606,"date":"2013-04-27T07:47:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T07:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishterrorism.com\/country-music-legend-george-jones-dies-aged-81-2\/"},"modified":"2013-04-27T07:47:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T07:47:32","slug":"country-music-legend-george-jones-dies-aged-81-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/country-music-legend-george-jones-dies-aged-81-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Country music legend George Jones dies aged 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><div>\n<div class=\"article section\">\n<!--endnoindex--><\/p>\n<p class=\"published\">\n Posted<br \/>\n <span class=\"timestamp\"><br \/>\n April 27, 2013 12:17:01<br \/>\n <\/span>\n <\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-content photo full\">\n <a href=\"\/news\/2013-04-27\/country-music-legend-george-jones\/4655142\"><br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/image\/4655128-3x2-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"Country music legend George Jones\" title=\"Country music legend George Jones\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/news\/2013-04-27\/country-music-legend-george-jones\/4655142\" class=\"inline-caption\"><strong><br \/>\n Photo:<\/strong><br \/>\n George Jones at an awards ceremony in California in 2012. <span class=\"source\">(AFP: Toby Canham, file photo)<\/span><br \/>\n <\/a><\/div>\n<p>George Jones, a classic country singer with a voice full of raw honky-tonk emotion and a life full of turmoil, has died aged 81.<\/p>\n<p>Jones’s publicist said he passed away on Friday at the Vanderbilt University Medical Centre in Nashville, Tennessee, eight days after he was admitted to hospital with fever and irregular blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Jones scored his first hit in 1959 with White Lightnin’, which topped the Billboard charts for five weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas native was married from 1969 to 1975 to Tammy Wynette, who sang in the hit song Stand By Your Man.<\/p>\n<p>Jones went on to record more than 160 charting singles, more than any popular music star of any genre, including several hits with Wynette such as We’re Gonna Hold On.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-content quote right\">\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote\">\n<div class=\"quote\">\n<p>My heart is absolutely broken. <\/p>\n<p>George Jones was my all time favourite singer and one of my favourite people in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Like his idol, Hank Williams, Jones battled addiction. <\/p>\n<p>Alcohol and cocaine frequently derailed his career and at one point his reputation for cancelling performances earned him the nickname ‘No-Show Jones’.<\/p>\n<p>He credited his marriage to Nancy Ford Sepulvado in 1983, who survives him, for turning his life around and breathing new vigour into his career.<\/p>\n<p>News of his death brought tributes from a number of country music’s top stars.<\/p>\n<p>“Heaven better get ready for George Jones. He will always be the greatest singer of real country music – there’ll never be another,” Alan Jackson said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Dolly Parton said: “My heart is absolutely broken. George Jones was my all time favourite singer and one of my favourite people in the world.”<\/p>\n<p>“George Jones has passed. Damn. Thought he’d live forever. Let’s break out his catalogue and play it all day,” said Toby Keith.<\/p>\n<p>Jones’ long list of honours’ included membership in Nashville’s esteemed Grand Ole Opry, a place in the Country Music Hall of Fame and, in 2008, a Kennedy Centre Honour for lifetime achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Jones announced a farewell tour that was to have ended in November with a sell-out concert in Nashville with fellow country stars including Garth Brooks, Randy Travis, Charlie Daniels and Kenny Rogers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AFP\/Reuters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"topics\">\n\t<strong>Topics:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"\/news\/topic\/country\">country<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"\/news\/topic\/music\">music<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"\/news\/topic\/death\">death<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"\/news\/topic\/united-states\">united-states<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--noindex-->\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source Article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2013-04-27\/country-music-legend-george-jones-dies-aged-81\/4655080\">http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2013-04-27\/country-music-legend-george-jones-dies-aged-81\/4655080<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Views: 0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted April 27, 2013 12:17:01 Photo: George Jones at an awards ceremony in California in 2012. (AFP: Toby Canham, file photo) George Jones, a classic country singer with a voice full of raw honky-tonk emotion and a life full of turmoil, has died aged 81. 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