Mark Lanegan dies

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Former Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan has died, aged 57. No cause of death has yet been announced.“Our beloved friend Mark Lanegan passed away this morning at his home in Killarney, Ireland”, reads a statement on his Twitter account. “A beloved singer, songwriter, author and musician he was 57 and is survived by his wife Shelley.

No other information is available at this time. We ask please respect the family privacy”.Screaming Trees were formed by Lanegan in 1984 in Ellensburg, near Seattle, and became one of the early bands to be grouped under the ‘grunge’ genre tag.

The band released four albums on independent labels Velvetone and SST in the late 1980s, before the grunge boom helped to secure them a major label deal with Epic, where they released three albums.After parting ways with the Epic label following their 1996 album ‘Dust’, the band struggled to find a new deal and eventually split in 2000.Concurrent to Screaming Trees’ major label career, Lanegan began recording solo music, releasing his debut album, ‘The Winding Sheet’, through Sub Pop in 1990, which included a version of the song ‘Where Did You Sleep Last Night’ featuring Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic.

Three more solo albums – ‘Whiskey For The Holy Ghost’, ‘Scraps At Midnight’ and ‘I’ll Take Care Of You’ – arrived before the end of the decade.After Screaming Trees split, Lanegan continued to release solo records, which included collaborations with other artists, such as PJ Harvey and Guns N Roses’ Duff McKagan.