The music that made Dolly Parton a global icon

It was 1967, and country musician Porter Wagoner was introducing a guest on his weekly TV show. The camera cuts to a woman with big, blonde beehive, wearing a magenta mini dress with the same shade of lipstick to match. It was in that moment a star was born. Her name was Dolly Parton. In the following decades after t

Dollyfest: The Celebration of a Lifetime was originally slated to occur on Parton's 80th birthday this January and feature a performance from the Queen of Country herself

In her tribute to Dolly, Freida Parton said that "like all sisters," they had their "share of arguments and disagreements throughout the years."

Singer vows to carry on remembering Parton’s songs in her shows

Fans have sent Dolly Parton's music soaring through the charts as they pay tribute to the late country icon and now she could finally land her first ever UK No1 single

DOLLY Parton's final resting place has been revealed after an intimate family service for the country icon. The beloved country music star died last Tuesday following a brief battle with cancer, just days after being hospitalized in Nashville, Tennessee. The singer's relatives gathered at the country music legend's fin

My friend Dolly Parton made me an album. No one else will hear it  The Times

Days after her passing, a bar in Newcastle has a mural of the music legend on one of its walls outside

Dolly Parton gained national attention in 1964 on "The Porter Wagoner Show," later becoming a 10-time Grammy Award-winner and Academy Award nominee.

Dolly Parton was not, as I always think of her, an Aquarius. She was technically a Capricorn, as befits her indefatigable work ethic and prodigious output. She was born in the Great Smoky Mountains, into the utterly vanished world that predated universal electrification, on Jan. 19, 1946, one day before Aquarius season

The singer died on Tuesday at the age of 80.

There has been an outpouring of affection for the country music legend since her death on Tuesday.