Former lead singer of Scottish rock band Big Country Stuart Adamson, who was found dead in a Hawaii hotel room, appears to have died from asphyxiation.
The Honolulu medical examiner reported he had died of asphyxiation and that toxicology tests were being carried out to determine if he had taken any drugs.
A maid discovered the 43-year-old guitarist’s body hanging in his room at the Best Western Plaza Hotel near Honolulu International Airport on Sunday.
Adamson's manager, Mr Ian Grant, said "I have just lost one of the finest people I have ever worked with or been lucky enough to know".
Born in Manchester, north-west England and brought up in Scotland, Adamson's early career began in Fife, Scotland, in the 1970s when he formed punk band The Skids.
Adamson went on to form Big Country in the early 1980s. The band earned two Grammy Award nominations for the 1983 album The Crossingand went on to tour with the Rolling Stones. Big Country's guitar-driven formula helped them to a string of British hits in the 1980s, including In a Big Countryand Fields of Fire. The band sold over 10 million records, had seven hit albums and 17 top 30 singles in Britain.
Adamson, who moved to the United States in the late 1990s, sparked speculation over his health in November 1999 when he failed to turn up for a British concert supporting Canadian singer Bryan Adams.