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2014 Celebrity Death: Acker Bilk Doed November 2 At The Age Of 85

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English clarinet player Acker Bilk, who beat the Beatles and other British rockers to the top of the U.S. music charts with the instrumental "Stranger on the Shore," has died at the age of 85.Manager Pamela Sutton said Bilk died Sunday at a hospital in Bath, southwestern England. The cause of death was not announced, born Bernard Stanley Bilk in 1929 in the southwestern English county of Somerset.

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