“We’re completely devastated and fully heartbroken to must let you know that our beloved Astro has as we speak handed away after a really brief 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 shaped in Birmingham within the late Seventies, and over the following three a long time discovered success with hits together with “Purple Purple Wine” and “(I Cannot Assist) Falling In Love.”
