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Mike Peters Dies: The Alarm’s Frontman Was 66
Mike Peters, The Alarm frontman who sang on such tracks as "Strength," "Sixty Eight Guns," "Spirit of '76" and "Rain in the Summertime," died April 29 of cancer
Follow-up single “Spirit of ’76” — which Peters co-wrote, as he did for most of the band’s songs — recounted his early days of discovering punk rock and name-checks the likes of Johnny Rotter and Siouxsie Sioux. The band’s songs were used in several films and TV shows ranging from the Tom Hanks movie Bachelor Party and British soap EastEnders in the 1980s to 13 Reasons Why and Animal Kingdom in more recent years. In 2007, Peters and other musicians made a two-week trek to Mount Everest Base Camp to perform a fundraising concert for cancer awareness.
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