Dave Greenfield, keyboard player for UK punk group The Stranglers, has died of complications caused by the coronavirus. He was 71.
Greenfield tested positive for COVID-19 on April 26 and was subsequently admitted to a hospital for heart issues, but perished due to the virus a week later. “On the evening of Sunday May 3rd my great friend and longstanding colleague of 45 years, the musical genius that was Dave Greenfield, passed away as one of the victims of the Great Pandemic of 2020.
All of us in the worldwide Stranglers’ family grieve and send our sincerest condolences to [his wife] Pam,” Stranglers bass player Jean-Jacques “JJ” Burnel wrote of Greenfield in a Facebook tribute.