Mike Peters, lead singer of Eighties New Wave band the Alarm, who scored hits like "Rain the Summertime" and "Sixty Eight Guns," has died at age 66.

Mike Peters, front man of Welsh rockers The Alarm and a long-standing cancer campaigner and fundraiser, has died aged 66. His band was formed in 1981 in Rhyl, Denbighshire, out of the punk era and had a top 20 hit, Sixty Eight Guns, two years later.

Mike Peters, The Alarm frontman who sang on such tracks as "Strength," "Sixty Eight Guns," "Spirit of '76" and "Rain in the Summertime," died April 29 of cancer