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Sources say the singer may have been dead for as many as six hours before being found by a security guard, alone in her bed with no signs of drugs nearby.

Singer Amy Winehouse, 27, has been found dead at her home, the Press Association reports. A Metropolitan Police spokesman confirmed that a 27-year-old woman had died in Camden and that the cause of death was as yet unexplained.

Clarence Clemons, the larger-than-life saxophone player for the E Street Band who was one of the key influences in Bruce Springsteen's life and music through four decades, has died.

Carl Gardner, original lead singer of the R&B group the Coasters, has died in Florida. He was 83....

Gil Scott-Heron, a poet and musician best known for the song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," died Friday, his publicist at XL Recordings said.

John Walker, the American-born musician who was the frontman for the Walker Brothers, one of the most successful bands of Britain's Golden Age of rock `n' roll, has died at age 67....

George Shearing, blind from birth, played in an all-blind band before becoming Britain's leading boogie-woogie artist. In the U.S., he hit on a jazz formula that established him in the jazz world and made him one of its leading artists for half a century.George Shearing, the elegant pianist who expanded the boundaries of jazz by adding an orchestral sensibility and a mellow aesthetic to the music, has died.

Teena Marie, an award-winning R&B singer-songwriter, was found dead at her California home, her manager said.

American musician and artist Don Van Vliet, best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart, has died aged 69.

Eddie Fisher, whose huge fame as a pop singer was overshadowed by scandals ending his marriages to Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor, has died. He was 82.