LONDON (CelebrityAccess) — Andy Anderson, a drummer who played for the Cure and Iggy Pop, died from cancer on Tuesday. He was 68.
Anderson revealed that he was battling stage four cancer on Facebook earlier this month, writing “I have Terminal 4 Cancer, and there is no way of returning back from that, it’s totally covering the inside of my body, and I’m totally fine and aware of my situation I’ve gone for a no resuscitation, with that, I have a next of kin, in place and there is no way I would want them to be looking me as a vegetable, if I were to survived a resuscitation, because it may well involve the possibility of sustaining cracked ribs and Brain Damage, and I would hate to lay that on anyone.”
“Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy will be discussed over the next few days, hopefully I’ll be able to get back to get to you in the next few days about the outcome, and please, No Boo, Hooing, here, just be positive, for me it’s just another life Experience and Hurdle, that one has to make yet another Choice in life, be cool, I most definitely am and positive about the situation , well that’s it for now, good folk, and thank you all for the well wishes I love them all, and are held very, very close to my heart dearly, and will stay with me forever, any way, stay well yourselves and chat soon,” he added.
On Tuesday, Anderson’s passing was announced by his former Cure bandmate Lol Tolhurst via Twitter: “It’s with a heavy heart, I have to report the passing of a Cure brother. Andy Anderson was A true gentleman and a great musician with a wicked sense of humor which he kept until the end, a testament to his beautiful spirit on the last journey. We are blessed to have known him.”
Anderson, who hailed from Essex, England, joined the Cure in 1983, stepping in for Tolhurst when he switched to keyboards. Anderson contributed to the band’s fifth studio release, “The Top” which peaked at #10 on the UK album charts with singles “The Caterpillar” along with “Shake Dog Shake” and “Dressing Up.”
He also performed on “Japanese Whispers,” which produced one of the band’s signature hits “Love Cats” and on the Cure’s first live album “Concert: The Cure Live,” which captured the band’s 1984 performance at the Hammersmith Odeon in London.
In addition to the Cure, he performed with a wide range of artists and groups, including Iggy Pop, Brilliant, Peter Gabriel, Midge Ure, Isaac Hayes, Mike Oldfield, the Gun Club’s Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Bronski Beat’s Jimmy Somerville and Glen Matlock from the Sex Pistols.
As well, Anderson worked as a session musician and a producer of television commercials and for record companies as well as various artists and charities.
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