Sad day for the world of music, the Godfather of Soul, James Brown has died.

今天是世界音乐界的悲痛之日，灵魂乐的教父詹姆斯·布朗与世长辞。

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I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride but something touched me deep inside, the day, the music, died.

我已记不清，当我读到有关那位新寡新娘的新闻时，自己是不是哭了。只记得有什么东西直刺入我心底。音乐在那一天死去。

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Sadly,its leader Alex Chilton died of a heart attack on the first day of the music festival.

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The first featured a pilgrimage to the resting place of Buddy Holly whose untimely death was later declared in American Pie as the day the music died.

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Since the day Shakespeare died, people have been adapting his work to their own time by writing incidental music for the plays.

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