'Clash Co-Founder Dies at 65
at 65
Keith Levene,
the innovative guitarist who was a founding member of the Clash and Public Image Ltd,
His death
was announced through social media on Saturday (Nov
12) by
former Public Image Ltd bandmates Martin Atkins and Jah Wobble
Levene passed
away following a battle with liver cancer, The Guardian reports
Billboard has
reached out to Public Image Ltd’s representatives for comment
“A sad
time to learn of the passing of guitar giant Keith Levene,” Atkins wrote on Twitter
Author Adam
Hammond, a friend of Levene, wrote on Twitter that he died on Friday (Nov
11) and
noted, “There is no doubt that Keith was one of the most innovative, audacious and influential
Levene, who
was born in London in 1957 and as a teenager was a roadie for Yes, was
He teamed
up with guitarist Mick Jones in the mid-1970s to form an early version of
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