Later Career and Death
Dee left the band to become a solo artist in September 1969, and released the single "My Woman’s Man" which reached #42 in the UK and #58 in Australia. He then retired from performing and became an A&R Manager for WEA Records, during which period he was at least partly responsible for their signing AC/DC, Boney M and Gary Numan. Later he became a businessman and founder committee member for disadvantaged children through the charity Nordoff-Robbins, which he helped found and worked with for over 30 years He also became a Justice of the Peace. In his later years he lived in Mobberley, Cheshire. He suffered from prostate cancer from early 2001, but continued to perform with his band almost up until his death from that disease in Kingston Hospital, South West London, on 9 January 2009.
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