Chad Gilbert, the lead guitarist and founding member of the punk rock band New Found Glory, has died at 45.
Gilbert’s former bandmates announced in an Instagram post on Sunday that he had died earlier that morning.
‘On the morning of September 20th, Chad Everett Gilbert passed away peacefully in his sleep,’ they wrote. ‘He left this world surrounded by friends and family and took his final breaths with his wife and mother by his side, just as he wished.’
‘We are devastated and shocked by how quickly he left us, yet so grateful for how peacefully and smoothly he went,’ the post
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