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Richard Andrew, the drummer for acclaimed Australian Underground Lovers, passed away Wednesday (Oct 30). He was 58 years of ages.
News of Andrews’ passing was shared by both his household and his bandmates, that both required to social networks to validate the information. Andrews himself had actually required to social networks simply one week earlier to reveal he had actually been detected with phase IV metastatic lung cancer cells.
“Our beautiful Richard John Andrew died at around 5.25am, this morning” the artist’s household composed. “His death, as he was in life, was epic. He left this world, face to face with his wife, Nicolette, as she sang their song ‘Do You Realise’ by The Flaming Lips. We are all heartbroken though relieve that our sweet prince is finally free.”
“It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our charming beautiful force of nature Richard John Andrew,” Underground Lovers echoed on social networks. “We are numb with grief and sadness. He passed peacefully in his sleep at home this morning with his wife Nicolette at his side.”
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Andrew initially climbed to popularity as a participant of the Underground Lovers in 1988. He signed up with the team as their drummer quickly prior to they transformed their name from the preliminary GBVB after establishing participants Glenn Bennie andVincent Giarrusso
Throughout his preliminary period with the team, Andrew got on hand to cooperate their single ARIA Award win for Best New Talent in 1992, and carried out on 3 of the team’s workshop cds, consisting of 1994’s Dream It Down, which came to a head atNo 55 on the nationwide graphes.
Leaving the team in advance complying with the launch of Dream It Down, Andrew took place to carry out with a variety of various bands in Australia, consisting of kinderland, Red Textas, Registered Nurse, and others.
Though Underground Lovers would at first dissolve in 2002, Andrew participated in their get-together in 2009, mosting likely to carry out on cds such as 2013’s Weekend, 2017’s Staring At You Staring At Me, and 2019’s A Left Turn.
In his blog post on social networks revealing his medical diagnosis recently, Andrew shared a determined message assessing his impending death.
“I am completely reconciled to whatever the future is, however, that future is probably quite limited and I’m in the process of preparing to pop this mortal coil and return to the trees, as it were,” he composed.“I cannot overstate enough what an honour and a privilege it has been to know you all over the last 58 years, and to have lived the most incredible, incredible life.”
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