“We’re completely devastated and utterly heartbroken to need to inform you that our beloved Astro has immediately handed away after a really brief sickness,” an announcement on Ali Campbell and Astro’s Twitter account said on Saturday. “The world won’t ever be the identical with out him.”
Wilson was a part of British reggae band UB40 for greater than 30 years, earlier than leaving the band to affix breakaway group UB40 that includes Ali Campbell and Astro in 2013.
UB40 fashioned in Birmingham within the late Nineteen Seventies, and over the subsequent three many years discovered success with hits together with “Crimson Crimson Wine” and “(I Cannot Assist) Falling In Love.”
