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Boyzone's Stephen Gately dies

Oct 11, 2009 9:57 AM | By AP

Stephen Gately, a singer with the Irish boy band Boyzone, has died while on vacation in Spain, the group said on its Web site Sunday. He was 33.


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Irish pop group Boyzone pose with television personality Denise van Outen after winning Britannia Music's record of the year in 1998.
Irish pop group Boyzone pose with television personality Denise van Outen after winning Britannia Music's record of the year in 1998.
Photograph by: NIGEL MARPLE
Credit: Reuters

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Gately "tragically died" on Saturday while visiting the Spanish island of Mallorca, the band said in a brief statement. It was not immediately clear how he died.

"At present we don't have too many details. The rest of the boys will be traveling to Majorca later this morning," the statement said.

Gately and his partner Andrew Cowles were in Mallorca together, the statement said. They were wed in a civil union in 2006.

Boyzone was a U.K. hitmaker in the 1990s and announced a comeback tour at the end of last year.

The group's manager Louis Walsh told the News of the World, "We're all completely devastated."

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Oct 11 2009 10:42:38 AM
Dukeboy
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If I were to hazard a wild guess - AIDS?
Oct 11 2009 06:49:57 PM
mcritic
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My wild guess - drugs and plenty of it.


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