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. He was 66 and finally succumbed to his illness.
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. They scored alternative radio hits in the U.S. in the 1980s, like “Rain in the Summertime,” and opened for U2, Bob Dylan and Queen. 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. His wife of nearly 40 years, Jules, battled the disease as well.
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