The Remedy’s Perry Bamonte Dies at 65

Perry Bamonte, the Remedy’s longtime guitarist and keyboardist, has died following an undisclosed sickness. He was 65. In a assertion posted to their web site, the band wrote that Bamonte, who glided by the nickname “Teddy,” was “quiet, intense, intuitive, fixed and vastly inventive,” in addition to “a significant a part of the Remedy story.”

Perry Bamonte was born in 1960 in London. He first joined the Remedy in 1984, as a roadie and Robert Smith’s guitar tech. Six years later, Bamonte was invited to turn out to be a full-time member following the departure of keyboardist Roger O’Donnell. Bamonte first appeared on the group’s chart-topping 1992 album Want, enjoying keys and guitar throughout the document, in addition to six-string bass on “Friday I’m in Love.” He would go on to carry out in additional than 400 exhibits with the band and on a number of further Remedy albums, together with Wild Temper Swings and Bloodflowers. Bamonte left the Remedy in 2005 and rejoined in 2022, forward of their Exhibits of a Misplaced World tour.

In 2019, Bamonte was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame alongside his Remedy bandmates. You possibly can learn the total assertion from the band under.

It’s with huge disappointment that we verify the demise of our nice good friend and bandmate Perry Bamonte who handed away after a brief sickness at dwelling over Christmas. Quiet, intense, intuitive, fixed and vastly inventive, ‘Teddy’ was a heat hearted and important a part of the Remedy story. ‘Taking care of the band’ from 1984 by means of 1989, he grew to become a full time member of the Remedy in 1990, enjoying guitar, six string bass and keyboard on the Want, Wild Temper Swings, Bloodflowers, Acoustic Hits and The Remedy albums, in addition to performing greater than 400 exhibits over 14 years. He rejoined the Remedy in 2022, enjoying one other 90 exhibits, a number of the finest within the band’s historical past, culminating with the present of a Misplaced World live performance in London 1st November 2024. Our ideas and condolences are with all his household. He will likely be very vastly missed.