New Museum Exhibit Opening at The Museum of Flight in Seattle
New Museum Exhibit Opening at The Museum of Flight in Seattle
On July 3, The Museum of Flight opens
Stranger Than Fiction: The Incredible Science of Aerospace Medicine, a new exhibition about a lofty subject wrapped in a retro SciFi comic book motif. It’s the story of daring aviation and space adventurers, doctors and researchers developing the means for us to go higher, faster and farther through the air and into space. These are the people who brought themselves to the brink, studied near-death experiences and advanced science so the danger zone could become the comfort zone. Sometimes what they did seemed just plain crazy.
Share Standing on the street in a baby-doll dress, surrounded by sunshine, laughing and radiating a piercing beauty of such force you stop breathing. I could not believe my eyes, he added. I could not believe my eyes : Nick, who dated the late songstress from 1977 to 1983, also reflected on the first moment he met her
Writing about their musical collaborations together, Nick credited Anita as the brains behind The Birthday Party, his old punk band.
Anita collaborated with Nick with his bands The Bad Seeds and The Birthday Party, before releasing her solo albums Dirty Pearl (1993) and Sex O’Clock (2001).
Anita Lane.
The two met when barely out of their teens, with Anita Lane becoming a key force in Nick Cave s first group The Birthday Party.
A hugely potent creative force, she wrote a number of the group s most loved songs, before contributing to the first iteration of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
Her solo work with Mute remains dearly loved, and the label is planning to re-issue her catalogue on vinyl later this year.
Sadly,
news of her death was confirmed yesterday (April 28th), with a host of friends and collaborators paying their respects.
Using his online portal
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Meanwhile, Warren Ellis from The Bad Seeds touchingly added: From her to eternity - RIP Anita Lane.
Anita was born in Melbourne in 1959, and began writing songs at the age of 16.
Tribute: Following the devastating news, Nick Cave s wife Susie paid tribute on Instagram writing: Darling Anita, We love you so much, before sharing the lyrics to her husband’s 1986 track ‘Sad Waters’
Anita began working with Nick in 1977, and had both a personal and professional relationship with him.
The pair later moved to Europe together, and she began co-writing for his first post-punk band, The Birthday Party.
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Anita Lane, the Australian singer-songwriter best known for her collaborations with Nick Cave, has died. A representative for her label confirmed the news. No cause of death was given, and her age – believed to have been in her early 60s – could not be immediately confirmed.
Lane was born in Melbourne and attended art school where she began dating Cave in the 1970s. The pair later moved to Europe together and they collaborated, initially for Cave’s band the Birthday Party – Lane co-wrote A Dead Song from their 1981 debut album, Prayers on Fire. The photographer Bleddyn Butcher, who extensively documented Cave’s early years, later said: “Anita’s influence on Nick’s early thinking and creative confidence was catalytic.”