Anita Lane, who was a collaborator of both The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds and co-wrote songs with Nick Cave for each group, has passed away, Louder Than War reports.
Anita co-wrote such Birthday Party songs as "A Dead Song," "Dead Joe," and "Kiss Me Black," as well as Bad Seeds songs "From Her to Eternity" and "Stranger Than Kindness." She also sometimes sang for the Bad Seeds, including on their cover of Bob Dylan's "Death Is Not The End" from 1996's Murder Ballads, and on Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, and Blixa Bargeld's score for Ghosts… of the Civil Dead.