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Dexys Midnight Runners original member dead: Andy Leek passes away aged 66 following long battle with Parkinson's disease just days after tying the knot

Dexys Midnight Runners founding member Andy Leek has died aged 66 after a battle with Parkinson's disease.

'I really hated being famous all of a sudden,' Leek told Record Mirror at the time, expressing that fame shouldn't impact his value as an artist​. Dexys Midnight Runners original member dead: Andy Leek has passed away aged 66 following long battle with Parkinson's disease Sharing news of his death on Facebook, Deborah said: 'The poet Mary Oliver wrote 'Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable'.

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