Dave Greenfield, the keyboard player with British punk band The Stranglers who penned the music to their major hit, Golden Brown, has died right after tests constructive for coronavirus. He was 71.
The band’s official site introduced that Greenfield died on Sunday right after contracting the virus subsequent a remain in a healthcare facility for heart complications.
Bass player Jean-Jacques “JJ” Burnel compensated tribute to Greenfield as a “musical genius,” who had “passed away as 1 of the victims of the Wonderful Pandemic of 2020.”
Hugh Cornwall, the band’s former direct singer, explained on Twitter that Greenfield’s “musical ability and light nature gave an appealing twist to the band” and that he “ought to be remembered as the male who gave the world the music of Golden Brown.”
Greenfield was identified for his distinctive audio and participating in model, applying instruments these as the harpsichord and Hammond electrical organ. He joined the band in 1975, which subsequently became 1 of the most ground breaking in the course of Britain’s punk explosion in the late seventies.
The group had just lately postponed a farewell tour this summer time mainly because of the pandemic. Greenfield is survived by his wife Pam.