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The British stone guitarist John Sykes, who played with Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy, has died aged 65.
A connection connected his website said Sykes "passed distant aft a hard fought conflict with cancer".
It described him arsenic a "thoughtful, kind, and charismatic antheral whose beingness lit up the room" and said that, successful his last days, helium had expressed a "sincere emotion and gratitude for his fans".
Sykes appeared connected 2 Whitesnake albums and co-wrote immoderate of the band's best-known songs, including Still Of The Night and Is This Love.
He began his vocation successful 1980 with dense metallic set Tygers Of Pan Tang, signaling 2 albums earlier joining Thin Lizzy successful 1982.
He played connected the 1983 merchandise Thunder and Lightning earlier accompanying frontman Phil Lynott connected a European circuit with a abstracted radical called The Three Musketeers.
In 1984, helium joined Whitesnake astatine the invitation of laminitis and frontman David Coverdale, signaling parts for their Slide It In medium and aboriginal for their self-titled 1987 merchandise which was a captious and commercialized success.
After leaving Whitesnake helium released 2 albums with his ain group, Blue Murder, and aboriginal formed a touring mentation of Thin Lizzy which had disbanded successful the years earlier Lynott's decease successful 1986.
The connection connected Sykes's website read: "It is with large sorrow we stock that John Sykes has passed distant aft a hard fought conflict with cancer.
"He volition beryllium remembered by galore arsenic a antheral with exceptional philharmonic endowment but for those who didn't cognize him personally, helium was a thoughtful, kind, and charismatic antheral whose beingness lit up the room.
"He surely marched to the bushed of his ain drum and ever pulled for the underdog. In his last days, helium spoke of his sincere emotion and gratitude for his fans who stuck by him done each these years.
"While the interaction of his nonaccomplishment is profound and the temper sombre, we anticipation the airy of his representation volition extinguish the shadiness of his absence."
Paying tribute connected X, Coverdale shared a fig of photos of himself and and Sykes unneurotic successful Whitesnake's heyday.
"Just heard the shocking quality of John's passing…" helium said.
"My sincere condolences to his family, friends & fans…"
Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash shared a representation of Sykes performing and wrote simply: "RIP".
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