1. Anthony Lawrence Cohen was an Australian music record producer and sound engineer.
27 Facts About Tony Cohen
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Tony Cohen worked with Nick Cave's groups the Birthday Party, and then the Bad Seeds from 1979 to 2001.
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At the ARIA Music Awards of 1994 Tony Cohen won Producer of the Year for The Cruel Sea's second album, The Honeymoon Is Over.
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Tony Cohen had been a long-term alcohol and drug user, his health deteriorated in the 2010s and he died in 2017 at Dandenong Hospital, aged 60.
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Anthony Lawrence Tony Cohen was born on 4 June 1957 in Melbourne.
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Tony Cohen's father, Philip Cohen, was an Australian son of Jewish migrants from Manchester, Philip had converted to Roman Catholicism before marrying Margaret, who was an Australian of Irish descent.
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Tony Cohen grew up in suburban East Ringwood where he attended St Francis de Sales Primary School.
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The family moved to Mentone, along with younger brother Martin, where Tony Cohen was enrolled at St Bede's College for his secondary education.
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Tony Cohen started to play the drums when the family had moved to the neighbouring suburb of Cheltenham and formed a friendship with fellow aspiring drummer, Chris Thompson.
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Tony Cohen bought a four-track recorder to tape their work and then recorded other local groups.
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In June 1978, Tony Cohen started working with the Boys Next Door, as an engineer at Richmond Recorders on their debut album, Door, Door.
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Tony Cohen then engineered the Birthday Party's early extended play, Hee Haw.
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Tony Cohen followed the group to London in mid-1986 and then on to Berlin in January 1987 to continue to work with Cave.
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Rather than [go] home, their producer Tony Cohen slept in the air conditioning duct.
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Tony Cohen's services were used for Perkins' next band the Cruel Sea on their second studio album, This Is Not the Way Home.
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Tony Cohen was nominated at the ARIA Music Awards of 1993 for Producer of the Year for that album and for "Get Thee to a Nunnery", a track on TISM's EP, The Beasts of Suburban.
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Tony Cohen worked for an ad hoc country blues trio of Perkins, Don Walker and Charlie Owen, as Tex, Don and Charlie on their debut album, Sad But True.
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Tony Cohen emerged in 2017 to produce Augie March's album Bootikins, as he had always wanted to work with the group.
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Tony Cohen got us feeling like and playing like a real band again after a long interim, and we made some very good music together.
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Tony Cohen had an on-again off-again relationship with Joanne from mid-1981, she had been Chris Thompson's girlfriend when they met.
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Tony Cohen then moved to Berlin in January 1987, and returned to Australian early in the next year.
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Early in 1991, Tony Cohen began a relationship with Astrid Munday, a vocalist for country music groups Killer Sheep and then Desert Boot.
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Tony Cohen had earlier been diagnosed with hepatitis C, then pancreatitis and diabetes.
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Tony Cohen died on 2 August 2017 at Dandenong Hospital, aged 60.
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Tony Cohen did give them up many years ago but always knew that he would eventually pay for his 'sins'.
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Tony Cohen was technically brilliant, but a caring, big-hearted man.
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List of technical works by Tony Cohen including audio engineer, record producer or mixer.