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Tributes follow Palmer death.(People)

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Tributes Flooded in last Friday morning to Robert Palmer, who died aged 54 in Paris after suffering a heart attack. Elkie Brooks, co-vocalist, with him in the band Vinegar Joe, remembers him as both one of the most stylish and ...

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