Chad Gilbert, New Found Glory founding member, dead at 45

Chad Gilbert, the guitarist who co-founded New Found Glory in 1997 and helped define a generation of pop-punk, died peacefully in his sleep on September 20 at age 45, surrounded by his wife, mother, and closest friends. He had carried a diagnosis of stage 4 adrenal cancer since 2021, a disease that spread with quiet ferocity to his spine, lungs, and brain, requiring emergency surgery just months before his death. Yet in June, he returned to a Nashville stage on a mobility scooter to play music in front of his five-year-old daughter — a moment he had feared he would never have. His life reminds