1. Anita Louise Lane was an Australian singer-songwriter who was briefly a member of the Bad Seeds with Nick Cave and Mick Harvey and collaborated with both bandmates.
23 Facts About Anita Lane
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Anita Lane began singing and writing songs at the age of 16.
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Anita Lane was a classmate of Rowland S Howard while both were students at the Prahran College of Advanced Education, undertaking the Tertiary Orientation Programme.
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Anita Lane met Nick Cave in 1977 and the pair began an intermittent personal relationship.
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AllMusic's Greg Maurer praised the album and noted Anita Lane's song writing contribution.
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Anita Lane was briefly a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds playing piano, along with singing backing and occasional lead vocals.
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Anita Lane was a member alongside Cave, Harvey, Adamson, Blixa Bargeld and Hugo Race.
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Anita Lane supplied lyrics for "From Her to Eternity", the title track of their debut album.
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Anita Lane co-wrote "Stranger Than Kindness" with Bargeld, which appears on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' fourth album, Your Funeral.
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Anita Lane added her lead vocals over a musical score by Bargeld, Cave and Harvey for the soundtrack of the 1988 Australian film Ghosts.
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Anita Lane had a "sporadic solo career" beginning with her four-track extended play Dirty Sings in 1988 on Mute Records.
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Anita Lane provided guest vocals on "The Bells Belong to the Ashes" for the album Headless Body in Topless Bar in 1988 by German post-punk post-rock band Die Haut.
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In 1989, Anita Lane was featured on Adamson's debut solo album, Moss Side Story; with Harvey, she was part of the Freedom Choir on "Suck on the Honey of Love" and "Free at Last".
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Anita Lane supplied vocals again for his second solo effort, the soundtrack for the film Delusion.
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In 1993, Anita Lane issued her debut solo studio album Dirty Pearl, recorded from 1982 to that year.
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In 1995, Anita Lane contributed vocals to Harvey's Serge Gainsbourg tribute album Intoxicated Man.
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Anita Lane returned in 1997 for his second Gainsbourg-inspired album Pink Elephants.
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For Murder Ballads, released in February 1996, the ninth studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Anita Lane sang a verse of their cover version of Bob Dylan's "Death Is Not the End" and vocals for "The Kindness of Strangers".
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Anita Lane's vocals, sourced from a telephone recording, are sampled by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in the 2024 Wild God track "O Wow O Wow ".
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In 1984, Anita Lane formed a personal relationship with Australian journalist and writer Nicolas Rothwell.
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In 2003, Anita Lane moved back to Australia with Libonati and her children and took up residence in Byron Bay, before moving back to Melbourne in 2008 with her children to her original family home in the suburb of Glen Iris.
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From early 2020, Anita Lane had moved by herself into a house in Melbourne's inner suburb of Collingwood where she lived until her death.
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Anita Lane was less active in her career in the final years of her life primarily due to health issues.