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\n\tWe will always love Dolly Parton. Harry Styles made certain of that, when he paid tribute to the late country music superstar during the first night of his residency at Madison Square Garden, the start of an unprecedented stretch of 30 consecutive shows at the storied arena.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\n\tThe British pop artist gave the best possible salute to Dolly by playing her recording of \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d on the MSG speakers.<\/p>\n
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\n\tThe former One Direction star thanked his band and gave a \u201cspecial thanks to all the musicians who have inspired me over the years.\u201d Of course, Parton was high on that list. \u201cDolly, thank you so much,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n
\n\tStyles went on to play two verses and choruses of the song, originally released in 1974, and told the crowd to sing along on the first chorus. The audio then faded out, say people who were in the arena, and segued to his solo hit \u201cSign Of The Times.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tDolly, perhaps the greatest country music artist of all time, an inductee into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame, and the writer of more than 3,000 songs, died Tuesday (Aug. 25) at the age of 80.<\/p>\n
\n\tParton was named\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u2019s\u00a0Top Country Artist of All Time, having landed 25 No. 1s on\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Hot Country Songs chart, the most of any woman, and 49 top 10s on\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Country Albums chart.\u00a0An all-rounder with a heart of gold, Dolly will also be remembered for her philanthropy, her acting roles, her business acumen and her support of good causes. <\/p>\n \n\tThe Tennessee native co-owned Dollywood, a theme park located in her hometown of Pigeon Forge, Tenn., and she operated the Imagination Library \u2014 a program that mails free books to children from birth until they first begin school. The late star had also been a co-owner of Sandollar Productions alongside her former manager,\u00a0Sandy Gallin<\/strong>, which produced\u00a0Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Father of the Bride<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Sabrina<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n \n\tNew York is Styles\u2019 current tour\u2019s first and only stop in the United States, after having previously stopped in Amsterdam, London, S\u00e3o Paulo and Mexico City for a combined 31 dates across July and August.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/harry-styles-tribute-dolly-parton-madison-square-garden-1236325968\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1810325811-e1787759348351.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard We will always love Dolly Parton. Harry Styles made certain of that, when he paid tribute to the late country music superstar during the first night of his residency at Madison Square Garden, the start of an unprecedented stretch of 30 consecutive shows at the storied arena.\u00a0 Explore Dolly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-2113943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2113943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2113943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2113943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2113943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}