Mike Mike Peters, the singer of the Welsh Rock Group The Alarm. It was 66.
Peters Cancer diedWho publicly fought as activists and collecting treatments for treatments. Peters lived with lymph nodes, and then chronic lymphatic leukemia. His death was announced for the first time in A statement from his band And his charitable institution.
The warning was formed in 1981 in Rhyl, Denbightshire, emerging after the wireless wave in the United Kingdom in the late seventies of the last century with a more friendly but fiery voice, won the praise in the United Kingdom and abroad. The alarm sold millions of records and joined a small list of Welsh works, including Tom Jones and Bony Tyler, to find fame all over the world.
Songs such as “The Stand”, “Sixty Sivense Guns”, “Blaze of Glory” and “Rain in the Summertime” embodies the writing of the band’s songs. The group became a preferred opening of the stadium in the 1980s, including Queen and U2, which presented a 1983 round of alarm to the United States.
The band, proud of its Welsh heritage, in 1989, released “Newid”, a copy of the Welsh language from its 1989 “Change” album. Peters left the group in 1991 and performed with his wife Gul – who also fought her cancer – in the poets of justice (also clearly briefly to the Scottish Grand Country). The alarm was collected in 2000 and hit the UK plans in 2004 when, in a secret trick, he wrote and recorded an individual teenage song, The Poppy Fields. The joke inspired a 2013 feature movie, “Vinyl”.
Petries was diagnosed with non -Hodgkin lymphoma in 1995 and spent two decades under intensive treatment. In 2005, he was diagnosed with chronic lymphatic leukemia, which returned in 2015.
With his wife, he co -founded the Love Hope Strength Foundation, which helped recruit donors in the bone marrow at urban parties. He performed unconventional sites to raise funds for the charity, including Jabal Kilimanaro and “Big Busk” walking between Wales’s cancer wings. Puno, Bruce Springstin and Nile Young joined him on stage for charitable events, and in 2019, he became a member of the British Empire Medal for his cancerous activity.
Peters shot a documentary, “While we still have time”, about his cancer battles and his wife. This year is a disease with the repetition of Reichter syndrome – a particularly dangerous form of lymphoma.
Peters survived his wife and children, Dylan and Ivan.
