Among the finest players to ever don a City shirt, the 'King of the Kippax' won a Division One title, FA Cup, League Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup across 14 seasons at Maine Road.
Bell also won 48 caps for England before suffering a knee injury at the age of 29 which would hamper him for the remainder of his career.
Here, the PA news agency looks back at Bell's career in pictures.
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