Celebrity Deaths

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GRAMMY award-winning music producer William Orbit has died aged 69. William worked alongside pop royalty such as Madonna, Britney Spears, Pink and Blur during his incredible decades-long career.

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Stage and screen star Phyllida Law, the mother of fellow actresses Dame Emma and Sophie Thompson, has died at the age of 94. Law appeared on screen alongside her daughters several times throughout a long and varied career, including in the 1996 adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, starring Gwyneth Paltrow. Law played Mrs Bates while Sophie played her daughter Miss Bates. She also acted with Dame Emma in 1992's Peter's Friends, directed by her then-son-in-law Sir Kenneth Branagh. They combined on screen again the following year in Sir Kenneth's adaptation of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. And they played a mother and daughter in Alan Rickman's directorial debut, The Winter Guest, in 1997. Later in life, Law provided the voice of Mrs Partridge in Dame Emma's 2005 film Nanny McPhee, which her eldest daughter wrote and starred in.

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Long-time ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard has died aged 77. ZZ Top was founded in 1969 and played their first live concert the following year. Together they released 15 studio and four live albums, with hit singles like Gimme All Your Lovin', Sleeping Bag, and Viva Las Vegas.