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Musician Tom Cohen to release album including songs about his life with wife Peaches Geldof who died from a heroin overdose

The husband of tragic Peaches Geldof is to release an emotional autobiographical album about their life together.

Musician Tom Cohen found his wife dead in their Kent home in April 2014. The pair had been married for two years.

The daughter of pop star and poverty campaigner Sir Bob Geldof had died from a heroin overdose and was discovered in the bedroom of her Fairseat Lane home, in Wrotham.

Tragic Peaches Geldof with Tom Cohen
Tragic Peaches Geldof with Tom Cohen

Now the former S.C.U.M frontman is to release his debut solo album, which opens up about his marriage to Peaches, including the birth of their children and rural life.

The singer was half way through recording the album when the tragedy happened.

The title song, Bloom Forever, recounts the birth of Cohen’s second son, but it is a track called Morning Fall - written the month before Peaches' death - that Cohen says is the most emotional.

He told MOJO magazine: "I wrote it in my garden. It was the start of spring and days seemed to just come and go, and it all winds into this kind of dream-like state of not really knowing what you're doing or when.

Peaches Geldof's former home in Wrotham
Peaches Geldof's former home in Wrotham

"Like, some days in the countryside you just wake up and there's fog, and it doesn't leave, and at the end you go to bed.

"I guess the song is realising that something is coming to an end, but seeing the light in that."

The 25-year-old musician - who had two sons with Peaches, Astala, three, and Phaedra, two - headed to Iceland four months after his wife's death where he worked on the album.

But he admits he didn't know if he would ever return to music.

He told The Mirror: "I was still a bit of a shell and I so needed it.

Sir Bob Geldof
Sir Bob Geldof

"I definitely did clam up and close off.

"If you're repressing anything, and you have some sort of outlet, you should - or I felt that I should - definitely try to use it."

Peaches' death was a tragic echo of her mother Paula Yates' accidental overdose death 14 years earlier.

An inquest heard she had been off drugs for two-and-a-half years and was being treated for the addiction with methadone.

But in February, Cohen discovered texts on his wife's phone that alerted him to the fact she was using drugs again.

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