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'Everyone needs a Joan in their life': As she dies aged 80, how a ship carpenter's daughter from Glasgow became Lady Branson, her besotted billionaire husband Sir Richard's 'constant rock'

The pair met in 1976 at The Manor, a live-in recording studio for the company, three years after Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells launched Virgin into the public consciousness.

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