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# Singer, Kathy Kirby dies aged 72

## Kirby was a popular singing star of the 1960s, with two Top 10 hits. Her
biggest and best-known hit was a dramatically overwrought cover version of
Secret Love.

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In 1965 she represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest with
I Belong, coming second to Luxembourg.

Her voluptuous blonde looks led to comparisons with Marilyn Monroe; her lip
gloss and powerful, pitch-perfect voice became her trademarks.

In 1963 she was acclaimed Top British Female Singer in a New Musical Express
poll.

But her career imploded following the death of her mentor and lover, the
bandleader Bert Ambrose, in 1971.

She made her last major public singing appearance on a television special in
the early 1980s.

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