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Infobox musical artist | name = Anita Lane| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = solo_singer| instrument =| genre = Post-punk , alternative rock | occupation = Singer-songwriter| years_active = 1981–present| label = Mute Records|Mute | associated_acts = Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | website =| notable_instruments = Anita Lane is an Australian singer-songwriter who directly influenced the early 1980s Europe an post-punk landscape.
Birthday Party
Lane was born in Melbourne , Australia in the late 1950s. Lane began singing and writing songs at age 16. She was a classmate with Rowland S. Howard who would later form The Boys Next Door and The Birthday Party (band)|The Birthday Party with Nick Cave . Lane became Cave's girlfriend and moved to London with the band in 1980. She co-wrote the lyrics of three songs for The Birthday Party ("Dead Joe", "Kiss Me Black" and "A Dead Song") before they split up in 1983.
Bad Seeds
Lane is sometimes creditedby whom|date=April 2012 as a founding member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds , which was forged from the debris left behind by The Birthday Party's demise. She had an undeniably strong influence upon Nick Cave and his workfact|date=April 2012, often cited as his " muse "fact|date=April 2012, although her only recorded performance with the band is a verse on the Bob Dylan cover "Death Is Not The End" from the much later recorded album Murder Ballads in 1996fact|date=April 2012. Lane and Cave duet on a cover of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore 's " Bedazzled " on the B-side of her 1995 single, ''The World's a Girl''. She co-wrote the lyrics of the title track to the band's 1984 LP, From Her to Eternity , as well as the lyrics of the song "Stranger Than Kindness" from Your Funeral, My Trial . She also began to perform and record her own songs. She worked with the Germany|German band Die Haut before recording Dirty Pearl under her own name. She was joined on the record by Nick Cave, and Bad Seeds Barry Adamson , Thomas Wydler , and Mick Harvey , who produced.
Anita Lane and Mick Harvey
With Harvey, Lane has recorded a series of albums that showcased the dichotomy between her baby doll voice and the Human sexuality|sexual longing of her lyrics. These include a pair of albums of Serge Gainsbourg 's covers, 1995's The Intoxicated Man and 1997's Pink Elephants . Harvey also produced Lane's 1993 collection, Dirty Pearl , which compiled tracks from Lane's work with Einstürzende Neubauten , Die Haut, as well as exclusive album tracks. Harvey co-wrote several songs, including the UK hit single, "The World's A Girl". Lane's most recent collaboration with Harvey is 2001's ''Sex O' Clock .
Lane and Cave separated in the 1980s. She was last known (as of 2005) to live in Byron Bay , Australia with her children.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Persondata | NAME = Lane, Anita | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = | PLACE OF BIRTH = Melbourne , Australia | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Lane, Anita Category:1950s births Category:Living people Category:Musicians from Melbourne Category:Australian female singers Category:Australian songwriters Category:Female punk rock singers Category:Australian singer-songwriters Category:Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds members Category:Mute Records artists
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