Tim Smith, frontman of Cardiacs, has died aged 59, it was announced yesterday.In a statement on the band’s website, Smith’s brother and bandmate Jim writes: “I’m sorry, on such a glorious day, to tell you the news that my dearest brother Tim passed away suddenly last night.
Sorry it’s a brief message but I don’t have it in me to speak at length just now”.Smith had been in poor health for some time.
In 2008, on the way home from a night out, he had a heart attack that triggered a stroke. A second stroke in hospital left him paralysed down one side of his body and unable to speak.
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