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Craig Gannon is an English guitar player, best known as the second guitarist in the Smiths. He is now a composer for film and television.

Andy Rourke: The Smiths bassist dies aged 59

May 19,2023 3:31 am

By Steven McIntoshEntertainment reporter

Andy Rourke, the bassist for Rock Band The Smiths , has died aged 59, The Band has announced.

Guitarist Johnny Marr confirmed " with deep sadness" that Rourke died after a long battle with pancreatic Cancer .

Marr said: " Andy will be remembered as a kind and beautiful soul by those Who Knew him and as a supremely gifted musician by music fans.

" We request privacy at this sad time, " he added.

Rourke played on The Smiths ' most famous songs including This Charming Man and There Is a Light That Never Goes Out, as well as solo singles for singer Morrissey after The Group broke up.

The musician also played as part of a supergroup called Freebass with two other Mancunian bass players, Gary " Mani" Mounfield from The Stone Roses and Peter Hook from New Order .

Across his decades-long career, Rourke recorded with The Pretenders , Killing Joke , Badly Drawn Boy, Aziz Ibrahim (formerly of The Stone Roses), and former Oasis guitarist Bonehead as Moondog One, A Band which also included Mike Joyce and Craig Gannon .

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