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First on TV and then on the pop charts, he became so popular so young, he once said, that he “didn’t really have time to have an ego.”
By Anita Gates
Bobby Sherman, an actor and singer who became an easygoing pop-music star and teen idol in the late 1960s, and who continued performing until well into the 1980s, has died. He was 81.
