New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Rollin’ on

He happily admitted that writing songs wasn’t his forte. But that didn’t matter because Kenny Rogers had a talent for taking songs written by others and making them his own.

The legendary country singer, who died last week aged 81, hit the charts with songs written by the likes of Lionel Richie () and Bob Seger). But perhaps his biggest hit was a duet with Dolly Parton, , penned by the Bee Gees.

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