11 Facts About Brad Robinson

Bradford Leigh Robinson was an Australian rock musician best known as lead and rhythm guitarist with the 1980s band Australian Crawl.

Brad Robinson had a later career as a manager for musicians and sports personalities.

In 1993 Robinson was diagnosed with lymphoma and, in October 1996 when Australian Crawl were inducted into the Australian Record Industry Association Hall of Fame, he was hospitalised with the disease and unable to attend.

Brad Robinson was raised in Frankston South on the outskirts of Melbourne and educated at The Peninsula School.

Besides guitars, Brad Robinson supplied keyboards, backing vocals and song writing for the group.

Brad Robinson co-wrote Australian Crawl's early song "Indisposed" with his father, and bandmates James Reyne and Bill McDonough.

Brad Robinson's father helped Robinson write "Way I've Been" for the album, which was the B-side of their fourth single, "Downhearted".

Armstrong only had a professional arrangement with Bernstein, but her long-distance from Brad Robinson dissolved their relationship.

Brad Robinson was the manager for Chantoozies in the late 1980s.

Brad Robinson was a member of the Challenge Board of Management, which assists children with cancer.

Australian Crawl had been inducted into the Australian Record Industry Association Hall of Fame two weeks before Brad Robinson died in Melbourne on 13 October 1996, three years after being diagnosed with lymphoma.