What did Ranking Roger died of?

March 26, 2019
Ranking Roger/Date of death

Is Ranking Roger dead?

Deceased (1963–2019)
Ranking Roger/Living or Deceased

What happened to Ranking Roger?

Personal life and death In January 2019, it was announced that Roger had undergone surgery for two brain tumours, and was undergoing treatment for lung cancer. He died at his home in Birmingham on 26 March 2019 at the age of 56.

How old is Ranking Roger?

56 years (1963–2019)
Ranking Roger/Age at death

Why did General Public break up?

Ultimately, the band broke up in 1983 over differences of opinions on how hard they should be working, he said. By then, Wakeling and Ranking Roger both had their first kids and they wanted to work more while some of the other members wanted to take a break after years of touring.

What is the difference between the beat and the English Beat?

The Beat (known in the United States and Canada as the English Beat and in Australia as the British Beat) are a band founded in Birmingham, England, in 1978. Their music fuses Latin, ska, pop, soul, reggae and punk rock.

Why did general public break up?

What’s the difference between the beat and the English Beat?

Did English Beat became general public?

By 1983, however, The Beat had dissolved. Charlery and Beat co-founder David Wakeling formed a new group, General Public, while co-members Dave Steele and Andy Cox founded Fine Young Cannibals, which had its own run of success through the rest of the decade.

Who died from the English Beat?

Roger Charlery
Roger Charlery, best known as Ranking Roger, singer of the widely influential U.K. group The Beat — known as The English Beat in the U.S. — died Tuesday afternoon, at 56. The singer was diagnosed with brain tumors and lung cancer last year.

Why did English Beat break up?