Benny Mardones, the singer and songwriter of the 1980s whose ballad “Into the Night” rose to the top 20 of Billboard’s Hot 100 list twice in 10 years, died this morning after a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 73 years old. Mardones had been bedridden at an assisted …
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