alum "Celebrity Rehab" was 44 years old.Former Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr was found dead yesterday afternoon (March 8).

TMZ reports that police found the body of Starr in Salt Lake City, Utah, home 13:42 He was 44 years.

Co-founder of the pioneering grunge band from Seattle, Starr appeared in VH1's "Celebrity Rehab" in 2009. E 'was arrested last month, aggravated possession of controlled substances. Salt Lake City police said that a number of painkillers for him when he was arrested. Alice in Chains has written a song and harrowing images of drug addiction.

The former lead singer Layne Staley died in the spring of 2002 after an overdose of a mixture of heroin and cocaine, commonly called "speedball." The group mounted a successful comeback in 2009, Black gives way to blue, which featured new singer William DuVall with guitarist Jerry Cantrell, drummer Sean Kinney and bassist Mike Inez.

Mike Starr was born on April 4, 1966, in Honolulu. He rose to prominence in the Seattle scene as a bass player lying Diamond, which was Cantrell and Kinney. Once inside Staley times, changed his name to Alice in Chains and signed a major label. Starr appears on the band's debut album, cosmetic surgery, which produced the monster hit "Man in the Box. It is also monitoring the band released the EP, Sap, and their second album, Dirt, which was published in September 1992.

Dirt is a classic hard rock radio staple with "rooster" other. "Would?" was involved in the movie "Singles", which was set in Seattle scene. "Down in a Hole" was part of Ryan Adams, fuel and Demon Hunter. Songs like "Junkhead" heroin-treated head-on. Godsmack band whose sound owes much to Alice in Chains, took its name from platform nine. Cantrell wrote most of the songs in a heavy share of Staley. Starr is credited with co-writer on a song "Rain when I die."

Starr left Alice in Chains Dirt read the back of 1993. Years later, he reveals the "Celebrity Rehab" that was his reason for leaving his growing dependence on drugs. He briefly joined the former Black Sabbath singer Ray Gillen Sun Red Sun Their self-titled debut was released in 1995, two years after Gillen died from complications related to AIDS.

Heroin abuse sent Starr to "Celebrity Rehab," which was followed by a passage in the spin-off show "Sober House." He appeared in an episode of the upcoming season of "Celebrity Rehab", celebrates more than six months of abstinence. He was arrested for possession of Salt Lake City police February 18, 2011.

Mike's father told TMZ her son's death is "a terrible shock and tragedy."

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