Steve albini

The producer has his fingerprints all over a number of top rock, post-punk, new wave and art-rock albums of the 80s in particular.

Leader of north Wales rockers The Alarm and beyond, Mike Peters left us on April 29.

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Following 30 years of living with blood cancer, Mike Peters – frontman of The Alarm – has died at the age of 66