12 Facts About Damien Lovelock

Damien Lovelock fronted the hard rock band The Celibate Rifles from 1980 as their lead singer-songwriter and later issued two solo albums.

Damien Lovelock was a sports broadcaster, an author and yoga instructor.

Damien, the only child of songwriter Bill Lovelock and the singer Joan Wilton, was born in Amersham during the short while they were living in England.

On Bill Lovelock's return to Australia, Damien reconnected with him amicably and worked as an office boy for his father's This Is Your Life show during the 1970s.

Damien Lovelock died from cancer at his Bilgola Plateau home on 3 August 2019.

Luke Damien Lovelock had himself started a singing career before dying on 16 March 2020.

In 1980 Damien Lovelock answered a 'Singer Wanted' advertisement for The Celibate Rifles, a recently formed rock group whose members were several years younger than him.

In 1988, Damien Lovelock released his debut solo album, It's A Wig Wig Wig Wig World, on which he even abandoned the hard rocking sound to include a version of the gentler "Chilly Winds" that Bill Damien Lovelock had written originally for Nina Simone.

In 1990, Damien Lovelock released the single, "Disco Inferno", and in 1991 Fishgrass, as well as the single "The Dalai Lama".

The last of these was written as a result of his raising money for Tibetan refugees and led to Damien Lovelock's meeting with the Dalai Lama on his visit to Australia in 1992.

Sympathising with Grossman from having gone the same journey as himself many years before, Damien Lovelock supported and encouraged him while he was recovering from addiction to drink and drugs.

An earlier Damien Lovelock recording came about during his relationship with the surfer Pam Burridge.