Peter Garrett, frontman of Australian rockers Midnight Oil, has left the band to turn back to environmental activism. Amazingly the band have been on the go since the late seventies.
"The last twenty-five years have been incredibly fulfilling for me, and I leave with the greatest respect for the whole of Midnight Oil," Garrett told reporters. "The band has brought a lot of pleasure and meaning to people's lives, including my own. But it is time for me to move on and immerse myself in those things which are of deep concern to me and which I have been unable of fully apply myself to up to now."
Although they only achieved a couple of big hits in the UK, Midnight Oil had much more success in America and Australia, and while their popularity did decline in the nineties they maintain a strong dedicated fanbase.