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).
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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.
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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.