The lead guitarist and founder of US rock band Eagles, Glenn Frey, has died, aged 67.
The band's website announced that the musician - who also played piano, keyboard and sang lead vocals on many Eagles tracks - had "fought a courageous battle".
Among the songs he wrote the lyrics for was Hotel California - a US number one and ranked as one of Rolling Stone magazine's top 50 songs of all time.
A statement from his family and band members Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Schmit, Bernie Leadon, Irving Azoff, said: "It is with the heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of our comrade, Eagles founder, Glenn Frey, in New York City on Monday, January 18th, 2016.
"Glenn fought a courageous battle for the past several weeks but, sadly, succumbed to complications from Rheumatoid Arthritis, Acute Ulcerative Colitis and Pneumonia.
"The Frey family would like to thank everyone who joined Glenn to fight this fight and hoped and prayed for his recovery.
"Words can neither describe our sorrow, nor our love and respect for all that he has given to us, his family, the music community & millions of fans worldwide."
The statement was followed by the lyrics of the band's song It's Your World Now, which Frey wrote with Jack Tempchin and has the lyric "It's your world now. My race is run. I'm moving on."
Frey's solo in Hotel California has been voted the best guitar solo of all time by readers of Guitarist magazine and Guitar World.
The song's lyrics have been widely interpreted as an allegory about the dark side of the American dream and the dangers of hedonism in the rock and roll world.
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