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Mike Peters, Frontman of the Alarm, Dies at 66 After Three-Decade Battle With Cancer
Alarm frontman Mike Peters, who became as known for his battle with cancer and fundraising efforts to combat the disease, has died, He was 66.
Mike Peters, frontman of Welsh rock band the Alarm, who became as known for his three-decade struggle with cancer and fundraising efforts to combat the disease, has died, according to the BBC. The Alarm formed in 1981 and soon became known for their rabble-rousing, activist rock via such songs as “The Stand” and “Sixty Eight Guns,” which charted in the U.K. two years later. Yet it was Peters’ battles with cancer — he was diagnosed with lymphoma in 1995 and later lymphocytic leukemia twice — that kept him in the public eye, along with his music career.
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