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Dolly Parton, the Queen of Country who turned a one-room Tennessee cabin into an empire of song, screen and sequins, died Tuesday at 80.
Her publicity office, Team Dolly, said in a statement that she died at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, surrounded by loved ones, after bravely facing a brief battle with cancer.
Her nephew Bryan Seaver announced the news in a video posted to her official Instagram, a task he said his aunt had asked him to handle years ago.
Born Jan. 19, 1946, near Sevierville, Tenn., the fourth of 12 children, Parton won 11 Grammys and sold more than 100 million records, making her one of the bestselling performers of all time.
She built Dollywood, stole “9 to 5” out from under Hollywood and wrote her own goodbye. “I Will Always Love You,” written in 1973 as a farewell to her mentor Porter Wagoner, was released as a country single the following year, and after famously turning down Elvis, the song became a global standard after Whitney Houston recorded it in 1992 for “The Bodyguard.”
Her giving was just as loud. Her Imagination Library, launched in 1995, has provided nearly 308 million free books to children in the US, UK, Ireland, Canada and Australia.
Wednesday’s New York Post front page carries her portrait and five words she gave the world first: “We will always love you.”
“We Will Always Love You” Aug. 26 tribute paper
The Aug. 26 cover runs in The Post’s unmistakable bold font, a full-front-page image of Parton alongside the tribute line. This is the complete print edition, not a cover-only reproduction, so you get every page of our coverage inside: the career retrospective, the columns, the photos.
A keepsake of the day New York said goodbye to a woman who never belonged to Tennessee alone.
Framed “We Will Always Love You” tribute cover
For something built to hang, we’re offering the Aug. 26 cover as an 11-inch by 12-inch poster or a 15.25-inch by 16.25-inch framed poster, using premium archival matte paper and set in a .75-inch-wide black Ayous wood frame, custom-made in the U.S.
Each piece is made to order and finished for durability, which means it holds up on a living room wall or behind a desk for decades. Given how quickly our commemorative covers can sell out, this one is worth picking up now.
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