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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds pianist Conway Savage dies
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 4 September 2018
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds pianist Conway Savage has died, aged 58, the band announced yesterday. He was diagnosed with a brain tumour last year.
“Our beloved Conway passed away on Sunday evening”, reads a statement on Nick Cave’s website. “A member of Bad Seeds for nearly 30 years, Conway was the anarchic thread that ran through the band’s live performances. He was much loved by everyone, band members and fans alike”.
“Irascible, funny, terrifying, sentimental, warm-hearted, gentle, acerbic, honest, genuine – he was all of these things and quite literally ‘had the gift of a golden voice’, high and sweet and drenched in soul”, the statement continues.
“On a drunken night, at four in the morning, in a hotel bar in Cologne, Conway sat at the piano and sang ‘Streets Of Laredo’ to us, in his sweet, melancholy style and stopped the world for a moment”, it concludes. “There wasn’t a dry eye in the house. Goodbye Conway, there isn’t a dry eye in the house”.
Fans noted Savage’s absence from tour dates last year, prompting the band to reveal that he had been diagnosed with and undergone surgery for the brain tumour.
