“We’re completely devastated and fully heartbroken to should let you know that our beloved Astro has at the moment handed away after a really quick sickness,” a press release 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 following three a long time discovered success with hits together with “Crimson Crimson Wine” and “(I Cannot Assist) Falling In Love.”
