They whirled and they twirled and they tangoed through the ’70s as the hit musical duo Captain & Tennille. And when “Captain” Daryl Dragon died Wednesday night in Prescott, Ariz., his longtime musical partner was by his side.
“He was a brilliant musician with many friends who loved him greatly,” Toni Tennille said in a statement, reports Rolling Stone. “I was at my most creative in my life, when I was with him,” she said.
The Captain met Tennille in 1971 when she hired him as a pianist, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Dragon and Tennille were married for 39 years before they divorced in 2014.
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