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Wayne Osmond, member of the singing Osmond family, dies aged 73
Singer died at hospital after ‘massive stroke’, making him first of hugely successful US pop group to die
The group began singing for the family’s Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints – colloquially though no longer officially known as Mormons – congregation in 1958. Then known as the Osmonds, the group reached the pinnacle of their fame in the 1970s, with the hit single One Bad Apple spending five weeks at No 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1971. Wayne Osmond endured a number of health problems over the years; he underwent surgery for a brain tumor in 1997, had a stroke in 2012 and was treated for cancer.
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