Mike Peter’s father dies in the UK while Dave Sharp is on a writing tour in NYC. While Dave is off in New York to write songs for what would become his first solo album, Mike Peters suffers a terrible tragedy when his father dies suddenly of natural causes.
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Photo: The Alarm,4/12/1986
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‘How the Mighty Fall (acoustic demo)’ [3:18] (MacDonald/Peters), The Alarm
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