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Roger Charlery (22 February 1963 – 26 March 2019), known professionally as Ranking Roger, was an English musician. He was a vocalist in the 1980s ska band the Beat (known in North America as the English Beat) and later new wave band General Public .
Roger Charlery, aka Ranking Roger, the singer and toaster from the English Beat, General Public and Special Beat, died today after a battle with cancer, a rep for the band confirmed to Variety.
The album was produced by Ranking Roger and he often guested with the band at some of their shows. The International Beat toured the UK and United States until 1992. [citation needed] Ranking Roger also briefly joined Mick Jones' post-Clash band Big Audio Dynamite and performed at several live shows with the band. However, the band broke up ...
Sales were less than earlier albums, however, and Roger became tired of traveling to America, and they soon broke up again. Since 2004, Dave Wakeling has toured the US with a full backing band as the English Beat. They often perform General Public tracks. [3] "Ranking" Roger Charlery died at his home in Birmingham on 26 March 2019 at the age of 56.
The “Super Freak” singer died at age 56 of pulmonary and cardiac failure in 2004. Having battled ongoing drug addiction — he was said to have paid $7,000 for drugs every week for five years ...
This is a list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in other closely related roles, who died in 2019.
Ranking Roger, 56, British singer (The Beat, General Public), cancer. [622] Redoute's Choice, 22, Australian Thoroughbred racehorse and champion sire, euthanised.
Roger Ailes is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, and their son, Zachary. Following his death, many FOX News personalities and friends of Ailes' took to Twitter to share their remarks about his passing: