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50 years on, Marilyn’s star power shines bright (VIDEO)

Only 11 years after her death, Elton John sang his ode to Marilyn Monroe. “And I would have liked to have known you, but I was just a kid,” went the lyrics. “Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did.”

What John didn’t know was how much truer his words would ring a few decades later.

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