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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
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Anita Lane, the singer-songwriter who cowrote some of the Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ most memorable songs, has died at age 61.
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As a solo artist, Lane wrote dark, luscious chamber pop that owed a debt to Burt Bacharach and Serge Gainsbourg. Her light, airy falsetto had a knack for cutting through collaborator Mick Harvey’s arrangements. As a lyricist working with the Birthday Party and the Bad Seeds, she had a knack for writing the eerie and morbid lyrics that were the calling cards of Cave’s early work. Cave still performs some of the Bad Seeds songs Lane co-authored such as “F