India, Nov. 21 -- Gary "Mani" Mounfield died suddenly at the age of 63; his brother, Greg, shared the news on Facebook. A cause of death has not been revealed. The musician was best known as the bassist of Stone Roses and Primal Scream.

"It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to announce the sad passing of my brother Gary Mani Mounfield. Rip Rkid," Greg wrote, adding in the comment section that his brother "reunited with his beautiful wife Imelda," who died in November 2023, three years after her bowel cancer diagnosis. The couple welcomed twin boys in 2013.

Mounfield was born in Crumpsall, England, in 1962. In the early 1980s, he formed the band Fireside Chaps with John Squire and Andy Couzens. The band was later renamed as Ston...