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Jazz pianist and singer PAGE CAVANAUGH has died of kidney failure, aged 86.
The jazz star, whose Page Cavanaugh Trio rose to fame in the 1940s on film and in Frank Sinatra’s radio show, died on 26 December (08).
The act played at nightclubs along Southern California until the 1990s, and appeared in several films including Doris Day’s big screen debut, 1948s Romance on the High Seas.
Cavanaugh’s band also appeared with Sinatra at New York’s famed Waldorf-Astoria among other venues, and played for NBC Radio’s Jack Paar Show.
Most recently, the group released its album Return to Elegance in 2006.
Cavanaugh, who never married, reportedly has no surviving family members.

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Former SPICE GIRL MELANIE CHISHOLM is nervous about giving birth to her first child - because ex-bandmate MELANIE BROWN has frightened her with hospital horror stories.
The British singer is expecting her first child in February (09), and is the last of the Girl Power troupe to become a mum.
But despite the star’s excitement about her impending parenthood, she has heard terrible tales about having a baby - from mum-of-two Melanie Brown, known in the band’s heyday as Scary Spice.
However, the star insists she has not been put off - and the rest of her bandmates have offered her the support she needs.
She tells U.K. magazine Reveal, "The girls are really excited and supportive.
I’ve seen quite a lot of them lately, except Victoria, obviously, because she’s out in L.A. a lot.
"Mel B has been talking me through all the fine details of giving birth and has told me loads of horror stories. Well, she is Scary isn’t she? So I suppose it’s her job to scare me a bit."

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British opera star RICHARD VAN ALLAN has lost his battle with lung cancer at the age of 73.
Van Allan, a bass-baritone who sang on the world’s opera stages, died on 4 December (08) in London, the National Opera Studio has confirmed.
The singer served as director of the studio from 1986 to 2001, following a stellar career which included starring roles at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera in London, the English National Opera and the Sussex Opera in England, where he made his debut in 1964.
Van Allan’s final appearance was in 2006 at English opera house Glyndebourne in Die Fledermaus.
He is survived by his wife, Rosemary Pickering, their daughter, and a son from his first marriage.

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