wrote, "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. Love to you all. Be safe."At press time no further information was available on the cause of Smith's death, though according to NME he had been ill since suffering a heart attack in 2008, which led to his developing the rare neurological condition dystonia.The group -- which formed as Cardiac Arrest in 1977 with Smith as the guitarist and primary lyricist -- quickly established a reputation for their wild, whip-saw style, which folded in art rock, jazz, psychedelia, metal, prog and punk into a roiling musical stew topped by Smith's.
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