Bad Company singer Brian Howe ‘dead at 66 after heart attack’
BAD Company's lead vocalist Brian Howe has allegedly died at the age of 66.
The singer passed away en route to the hospital on Wednesday after suffering a heart attack in his Florida home, TMZ reported.
The singer suffered a heart attack back in 2017, and had been dealing with ongoing heart disease since then.
Although unrelated, the English rockstar was involved in a car accident on April 30 which left him with broken ribs.
The star first found fame when he replaced Paul Rodgers as the lead singer of the band in 1983.
Brian left the band in 1994 when the stars reportedly couldn't stop bickering over financial matters.
The star - who had written most of Bad Company's hits at the time - explained his reasoning to leave the band in an interview and said: "Leaving Bad Company was not a difficult decision.
"It had got to the point where nobody was contributing anything to songwriting and quite frankly, the band was getting very very sloppy live.
"I quite simply, along with Terry Thomas, got tired of doing all the work and then getting nothing but resentment for it from Mick and Simon."
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He then tried his hand at a solo career in 1994, after writing the platinum record Holy Water in 1990 and gold album Here Comes Trouble two years later.
Unfortunately, he wasn't quite as successful alone as he was with the band.
His last single, Hot Tin Roof, came out in 2017.