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Steven Wilson and Mariusz Duda Release Song For Late Fan

11/04/2014
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(Prog) Steven Wilson and Mariusz Duda have released a charity track based on the work of a young fan who died of cancer. Alec Wildey was 26 when he passed away in August, after he'd asked Wilson to collaborate with Riverside vocalist and Lunatic Soul mainman Duda over his poem The Old Peace.

The pair had hoped he'd live long enough to appear on the track himself. But they've launched it as a tribute to him instead - with all proceeds going to cancer charities.

Wilson explains: "Alec had been passionate about our music, actively helping out with promotion as a leading member of the Porcupine Tree and Steven Wilson street teams from the tender age of 17, and setting up a street team for Mariusz in 2010.

"Some of you will almost certainly have met Alec, as he attended many of our concerts. If you did you will have found him to be a sensitive, extremely intelligent and articulate young man. He was a devoted and enthusiastic music listener and movie watcher, as well as a self-published poet, with a very bright future ahead of him." Read more here.

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