Pepsi Tate (10 March 1965 – 18 September 2007)
was the bass guitarist of
Welsh
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glam metal
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band
Tigertailz
Tigertailz are a Welsh glam metal band from Cardiff. Their 1990 album '' Bezerk'' made the Top 40 on the UK Albums Chart and contained the hit singles "Love Bomb Baby" and "Heaven". The band reformed in 2005.
History Formation and early year ...
, who made the
Top 40
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in the
UK Albums Chart
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in the early 1990s. Pepsi's nickname was "Boy" or "The Boy".
Born as Huw Justin Smith, son of ''
Dempsey and Makepeace
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'' actor
Ray Smith, Pepsi Tate grew up in the village of
Dinas Powys
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, just outside Cardiff.
After his career with Tigertailz Justin pursued a career in television as a producer and director. His work for
BBC Wales
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It is one of the four BBC national regions, alongside the BBC English Regions, BBC Northern Ireland and BBC Scotland. Established in 1964, BBC Cymru Wales is ...
included directing the weekly politics programme, ''Dragon's Eye''.
The ''Thrill Pistol'' album (released on 27 August 2007) featured his last recordings. It was dedicated to Pepsi and his family.
On 18 September 2007, aged 42, Pepsi Tate died after suffering with
pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer arises when cell (biology), cells in the pancreas, a glandular organ behind the stomach, begin to multiply out of control and form a Neoplasm, mass. These cancerous cells have the malignant, ability to invade other parts of t ...
.
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- accessed 27 April 2012 He died at Holme Towers Cancer Hospice in
Penarth
Penarth (, ) is a town and Community (Wales), community in the Vale of Glamorgan ( cy, Bro Morgannwg), Wales, exactly south of Cardiff city centre on the west shore of the Severn Estuary at the southern end of Cardiff Bay.
Penarth is a weal ...
only a few weeks after he had married his longtime partner, Welsh opera singer
Shân Cothi
Shân Margaretta Morgan (born 25 October 1965), known professionally as Shân Cothi, is a Welsh singer-songwriter, television and radio presenter.
Early life
Cothi was born in Ffarmers, Carmarthenshire, the younger of two children of Dai and ...
.
Farewell event for rock musician
BBC Wales, 24 September 2007. Accessed 5 December 2015.
References
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1965 births
2007 deaths
Welsh rock bass guitarists
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Musicians from Cardiff
Deaths from cancer in Wales
20th-century bass guitarists