THE widow of a rock singer who died from a brain tumour is releasing one of his records to raise funds for research into the disease.

Dale Barclay, frontman of The Amazing Snakeheads, was just 32 when he died from a glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) tumour in 2018.

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Before then, he and his wife Laura St Jude, who is also a singer, were living in Berlin, Germany, and performing together in the band And Yet It Moves.

Laura, who now lives in Elderslie, said: “We were outside the venue of a show we were playing in Frankfurt when Dale suddenly collapsed.

“He’d had a tonic-clonic seizure and I thought he was dying right in front of me.”

The couple flew back to Scotland in the hope of receiving an emergency brain scan at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, in Glasgow.

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Laura, 30, said: “They wouldn’t give Dale a scan, even though he displayed the big three brain tumour symptoms of seizures, vomiting and headaches.

“We had to keep on fighting for one for four weeks. Eventually, a doctor said ‘come back when he’s had another seizure.’

“Well, Dale had another seizure and the scan revealed a lesion on his brain.”

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Just four days later, Dale underwent surgery.

“We were told the tumour was the worst you can get – a glioblastoma multiforme – and Dale had just 12 to 14 months left to live,” said Laura.

“He only got nine months.”

What followed were a hopeful five months of clear scans which meant that Laura and Dale were able to gig and record music together.

However, Dale then suffered from three seizures in a row and was told that his tumour had grown back aggressively.

He died on September 25, 2018, with Laura by his side.

Before his death, Dale wrote a song called Wild At Heart, which she has now reworked in his memory and will release next week, with all proceeds going to the Brain Tumour Research charity.

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Laura said: “Even after everything, his death still came as a huge shock.

“There is such a lack of research into this devastating disease and more needs to be done to spot the early symptoms which Dale’s doctors missed.

“I want to do something for a charity that means so much to me.

"I’ve been through my own thing, but I’m now ready to help others.”

She said: “His death still came as a huge shock.

“There is such a lack of research into this devastating disease and more needs to be done to spot the early symptoms which Dale’s doctors missed.

“I want to do something for a charity that means so much to me.”

Wild At Heart will be released on Tuesday, April 12. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/LauraSt.Judemusic.