Brian Roy Goble, (January 4, 1957 – December 7, 2014), also known as Wimpy Roy or Brian "Sunny Boy Roy" Goble, was a Canadian singer and musician. He played bass and sang for several
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punk bands. After starting with Stone Crazy, Brian then began playing punk rock, playing bass with
The Skulls, before becoming lead singer for
The Subhumans when
The Skulls split. After the demise of
Subhumans, Brian joined
D.O.A.
DOA may refer to:
* Dead on arrival
* Dead or Alive (disambiguation)
Film
* ''D.O.A.'' (1949 film), a ''film noir''
* ''D.O.A.'' (1988 film), a remake of the 1949 film
* '' D.O.A.: A Rite of Passage'' (1980 film), a documentary on the gene ...
in the early 1980s as bass player and second singer. After playing and singing on a number of D.O.A. albums, he quit in 1996 after the
Black Spot tour. He would later reunite with
The Subhumans in 2006.
Goble died of a heart attack on December 7, 2014, aged 57.
References
1957 births
2014 deaths
Anarcho-punk musicians
Canadian punk rock singers
Canadian punk rock bass guitarists
20th-century Canadian male singers
20th-century Canadian guitarists
D.O.A. (band) members
Subhumans (Canadian band) members
The Skulls (Canadian band) members
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