Andy Rourke, the bass player for the Smiths, one of the most influential bands of the 1980s, has died.
His former bandmate Johnny Marr, the Smiths’s guitarist, announced Mr. Rourke’s death on social media and said that the cause was pancreatic cancer.
He did not specify when or where Mr. Rourke died.
“Andy will be remembered as a kind and beautiful soul,” Mr. Marr said, “and as a supremely gifted musician.”Mr. Rourke played on all of the British band’s most well-known songs, including “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” and “This Charming Man,” helping turn the Smiths into a cult act in the United States and a chart-topping group in his home country.