There are famous people. Pop stars, actors and actresses, celebrities on TV and online , sports men and women and more.

And then there are the rare ones who seem to belong to everybody.

Dolly Parton died yesterday at the age of 80.

Her death has triggered tributes around the world, not simply from country-music fans but across music, film, politics and generations of people who grew up knowing Dolly even if they could not name one of her albums.

That is quite an achievement for a girl born into a large, dirt poor family in rural Tennessee.

Yes, there were the great songs.

Jolene.

9 to 5.

I Will Always Love You.

And enough awards, records and chart positions to fill a much duller article than this one.

AP reports that she sold more than 100 million records during her career.

But Dolly became bigger than her music.

She acted.

Built businesses. (she was a hugely astute business woman)

Created Dollywood.

Made self-deprecating jokes before anybody else could make them.

And managed the near-impossible trick of being enormously famous without constantly appearing to need everyone to know how important she was.

Maybe some of todays celebrities could learn a thing or too about that being humble and not having to constantly tell everyone how important they are was never Dolly's style.

Then there were the books.

Her Imagination Library, started in 1995 and inspired by her father’s inability to read and write, grew from one Tennessee county into an international programme.

It has operated in the UK since 2007 and sends an age-appropriate book each month to participating children from birth to five.

The UK programme says local partners can establish schemes for around £26 per child per year.

That may be the most Dolly Parton thing of all.

Become a global superstar.

Earn a fortune.

Then quietly spend decades sending books to children.

She also put her own money behind medical research, disaster relief and countless charitable causes.

Many people say she was richer than many billionaires and that is probably the best legacy anyone can leave this earth having.

She even said had she only been waiting tables she would still have given to charity because that's who she was.

So perhaps the reason her death feels different is simple.

People did not only admire what she achieved.

They liked what she seemed to stand for.

Big ambition without embarrassment.

Humour without cruelty.

Success without pretending she had done it all alone.

And generosity without needing a lecture attached.

There will be endless Dolly songs played this week.

There should be.

But perhaps the better tribute is the question underneath her life:

When you finally have enough, what do you do with the extra money?

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