Remembering Anita Lane: much more than Nick Cave’s muse
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“Muse” is faint praise, of course. Suze Rotolo looked great on Bob Dylan’s arm on that LP cover. Yoko Ono and Linda Eastman inspired their blokes to write some cracker tunes. Mick Jagger borrowed some cool books from Marianne Faithfull. Lou Reed was besotted with Nico. But all of those women were artists, too. In a man’s world, the passive role just fits some more easily.
Anita Lane has died at 61.
Anita Lane, Singer-Songwriter Who Co-Wrote Celebrated Nick Cave Songs, Dies at 62
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Anita Lane, an Australian singer-songwriter known for collaborating with Nick Cave and the Birthday Party as well as her own recordings, has died at 62.
Cave paid tribute on social media, tweeting, “From her to eternity” a perhaps inevitable eulogy, given that the song that went by that title was her most famous co-write and one of the most celebrated songs by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
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Lane first collaborated with Cave when he was a member of the Birthday Party. She was a classmate of the Birthday Party’s Rowland S. Howard and ended up co-penning several songs for that band, going on to co-write with Cave after that, too, with songs including not just “From Her to Eternity,” “A Dead Song,” “Kiss Me Black” and “Dead John,” but “Stranger Than Kindness,” a Bad Seeds standout for which she wrote all the l
Anita Lane of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Dies At 62
Anita Lane, a former member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and before that Cave’s The Birthday Party, has died at the age of 62.
Anita was born in Melbourne. She met Rowland S. Howard at the Prahran College of Advanced Education where they studied art. She then met Nick Cave and they started dating. Cave had already formed Boys Next Door. They became The Birthday Party and Cave and Lane relocated to London with the band, including Howard who was now the guitarist.
Lane co-wrote ‘A Dead Song’ of the debut album for The Birthday Party ‘Prayers On Fire’. She also co-wrote ‘Dead Joe’ and ‘Kiss Me Black’ for the second album ‘Junkyard.
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âMuseâ is faint praise, of course. Suze Rotolo looked great on Bob Dylanâs arm on that LP cover. Yoko Ono and Linda Eastman inspired their blokes to write some cracker tunes. Mick Jagger borrowed some cool books from Marianne Faithfull. Lou Reed was besotted with Nico. But all of those women were artists, too. In a manâs world, the passive role just fits some easier.
Anita Lane has died at 61.