Sang and cried about love and died (8)
I believe the answer is:
yodelled
'sang' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'cried about love and died' is the wordplay.
'cried' becomes 'yelled' ('yell' can be a synonym of 'cry').
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'died' becomes 'd'.
'o'+'d'='od'
'yelled' going around 'od' is 'YODELLED'.
'and' is the link.
(Other definitions for yodelled that I've seen before include "Sang like a Swiss" , "Sang like Frank Ifield" , "Gave voice" .)