Boyzone star Stephen Gately dies

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Source: bbc

The Boyzone singer Stephen Gately, 33, has been found dead while on holiday in Majorca.

The group's tour website said that he had "tragically died" and that the rest of the band would be flying out to Majorca on Sunday.

The website also said Gately had been on holiday with his long-term partner Andy Cowles when he died on Saturday.

Boyzone announced their comeback tour last November. The Irish band had six UK number one hits from 1994 to 2000.


Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8301187.stm

[murielm99]

1. RIP

He was young and handsome. Thirty-three is much too young to die.

[xchrom]

2. may Peace be with his partner, family and friends. nt

[DarthDem]

3. RIP

Sad.

[Sultana]

4. Sad

I used to have a major crush on him, RIP.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. Stephen Gately of Irish boy band Boyzone dies in Mallorca, leaves behind partner

Source: LA times

MANUEL MIELNIEZUK Associated Press Writer

October 11, 2009 | 11:59 a.m.


PORT D'ANDRATX, Balearic Islands (AP) — Stephen Gately, a singer with the Irish boy band Boyzone who made headlines when he came out as gay a decade ago, has died while on vacation in Spain, the group said on its Web site Sunday. He was 33.

Gately "tragically died" on Saturday while visiting the island of Mallorca, the band said in a brief statement. The cause of death was not immediately clear.

Gerald Kean, a Gately family friend in Ireland, said he the singer died of natural causes, without identifying them.

"There's no foul play involved, and it's not suicide. It's just a tragic accident is what we've been told, and we're happy that that is correct information," Kean said. "There is nothing untoward. It's not drugs, we don't believe. It's not suicide. It's not murder. It's not a fight. That's what we've been told."

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-eu-obit-stephen-gately,0,6022940.story?track=rss

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natural causes? Tragic accident? can't be both

[mackerel]

6. Natural causes? Like what drowning?

[Old Vet]

7. Huh...natural causes at 33............

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