Drummer Rick Buckler, best known for his work in The Jam, reportedly died on Monday following a "short illness."

Rick Buckler, former drummer in The Jam, has died at the age of 69, his ex-bandmates have confirmed on social media. The Jam rose to fame in the punk and new wave era of the late 1970s and are credited with inspiring a revival in mod fashion and music.

Rick Buckler has died. Buckler, the drummer of the seminal English mod punk band The Jam, was one-third of one of the era’s most talented and eclectic groups. As confirmed by his family to the BBC, Buckler died on Monday in his hometown of Woking,