Soul King Burke dead

SOUL singer Solomon Burke, who wrote Everybody Needs Somebody To Love and recorded the hit Cry To Me used in the movie Dirty Dancing, has died at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.

Soul King Burke dead
Mon, 11 Oct, 2010 - 01:00

He was 70.

Airport police spokesman Robert van Kapel confirmed the death of the King of Rock and Soul yesterday.

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