Mike Peters, the singer of the Welsh rock group The Alarm, died. He was 66 years old.
Peters death of cancerthat he had fought publicly as an activist and fundraising for treatments. Peters lived with lymphoma and later chronic lymphocytic leukemia. His death was announced for the first time in A Declaration of his group and its charity.
The alarm formed in 1981 in Rhyl, Denbighshire, emerging after the British punk wave of the late 1970s with a sound more focused on the hook, accessible but ardent which was acclaimed in the United Kingdom and abroad. The alarm has sold millions of records and has joined a small list of Welsh acts, including Tom Jones and Bonnie Tyler, to find world renown.
Singles like “The Stand”, “Sixty-eight pistols”, “Blaze of Glory” and “Rain in the Summertime” embodied the writing of the groups of the group. And the group has become a favorite opener for stadium acts of the 80s, including Queen and U2, whose 1983 tour introduced the alarm in the United States.
The group, proud of its Welsh heritage, released in 1989 “Newid”, a Welsh version of its 1989 album “Change”. Peters left the group in 1991 and played with his wife Jules – who also fought his own cancer – in the poets of justice (he also briefly gathered the big country of Scottish law). He brought together the alarm in 2000 and struck the British charts in 2004 when, in a clandestine blow, he wrote and recorded a single as a fictitious punk group, The Poppy Fields. The farce inspired a 2013 feature film, “Vinyl”.
Peters received a non -Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis in 1995 and spent two decades under intensive treatment. In 2005, he received a diagnosis of chronic lymphocyte leukemia, which returned in 2015.
With his wife, he co -founded the Love Hope Force Foundation, who helped recruit donors from bone marrow during live concerts. He played in unconventional places to collect funds for the charitable organization, including Mont Kilimandjaro and the “Big Busk” walking concerts between cancer services in Wales. Acts such as Bono, Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young joined him on stage for charitable events, and in 2019, he was appointed member of the Order of the British Empire for his cancer activism.
Peters shot a documentary, “although we still have time”, about his cancer battles and his wife. This year, he fell ill with a recurrence of Richter's syndrome – a particularly dangerous form of lymphoma.
Peters is survived by his wife and their children, Dylan and Evan.
