Hot Chocolate singer Errol Brown has passed away at the age of 71, BBC reports. His manager confirmed that the “You Sexy Thing” singer died of liver cancer at his home in the Bahamas.

Brown co-wrote one of the band’s biggest hits in “You Sexy Thing,” a top-10 single in the ’70s and ’80s.

“Errol Brown MBE passed away in The Bahamas this morning with his wife Ginette and daughters Colette and Leonie by his side of liver cancer,” Brown’s manager Phil Dale said. “Errol was a lover of life and obviously ‘music!’ I never went into his home, car or a hotel room without music playing. Errol was a ‘Gentle Man’ and was a personal friend of mine who will be sadly missed by everyone who knew him. His greatest legacy is that his music will live on!”

Nile Rodgers also took to Twitter to pay respects to Brown, saying “we had some good times back in the day. RIP.”