Sad news! My favorite Smash Mouth lead singer Steve Harwell died Monday after suffering liver failure. He was 56.The band’s manager, Robert Hayes, confirmed the news in a statement to Rolling Stone, saying the musician was “surrounded by family and friends” when he “passed peacefully and comfortably” at his home in Boise, Idaho.
“Steve has been retired from Smash Mouth for two years now, and the band continues to tour with new vocalist Zach Goode. That said, Steve’s legacy will live on through the music,” Hayes said.
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“With Steve, Smash Mouth has sold over 10 million albums worldwide and topped the charts with two No. 1 hit singles, five Top 40 singles, three Hot 100 singles, four Billboard 200 albums and a Grammy nomination, not to mention the hundreds of film and television placements and of course those musical features in ‘Shrek,'” the manager continued.
Hayes remembered Harwell’s “iconic voice” as “one of the most recognizable … from his generation” and celebrated the performer’s “unwavering focus and impassioned determination to reach the heights of pop stardom.”
He concluded, “His only tools were his irrepressible charm and charisma, his fearlessly reckless ambition and his king-size cojones. Steve lived a 100 percent full-throttle life, burning brightly across the universe before burning out.”
On Sunday, a rep for Smash Mouth told Entertainment Weekly that Harwell had been placed in hospice care at home after suffering liver failure.
The rep added that Harwell had “only a week or so to live” and that friends and family had gathered to visit him over the past few days.
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