Pete Byrne, frontman of British new wave band Naked Eyes, dies aged 74 — SkimNews
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- Pete Byrne, frontman of British new wave duo Naked Eyes, has died at age 74
- Naked Eyes racked up repeated US chart hits with their cover of "Always Something There to Remind Me" along with "Promises, Promises" and other tracks
- The band's website and social media served as the venue for the death announcement
Why it matters: Byrne fronted the duo behind one of the defining synth-pop covers of the 1980s — "Always Something There to Remind Me" — and his death at 74 removes the voice from a catalog that scored its biggest successes in the US rather than the UK.
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