Bernie Lynch, frontman and co-founder of Eurogliders, the Australian pop group that loved a number of hits within the mid-Eighties, none larger than “Heaven (Should Be There),” has died following a battle with throat most cancers. He was 72.
Discover
See newest movies, charts and information
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart I’m posting this to let everybody know that Bernie handed away final Thursday (March 12),” writes vocalist Grace Knight, who was married to Lynch within the ‘80s. “I’m heartbroken and don’t know the best way to proceed with out him.”
Knight continues, “I don’t know what number of reveals Eurogliders have performed over time, it should be 1000’s, and for each single one among them, I’ve had Bernie there, standing beside me. It’s been such an exquisite, fantastic journey and I’m so very proud and honored to have shared it with him.”
Lynch fashioned Eurogliders in Perth, Western Australia again in 1980, a hotbed for different rock and post-punk. Eurogliders had a global breakthrough with 1984’s “Heaven,” housed on the album This Island. The tune reached No. 2 on the the ARIA Chart, impacted the Billboard charts, and continues to reverberate greater than 40 years after launch.
Presently, it soundtracks a serious actual property TV marketing campaign in Australia, and the tune was recognized by music historian The Professor of Rock as one of the vital underrated, neglected songs of its period.
The band would get pleasure from a slew of home hits, together with 1985’s “We Will Collectively,” sung by Lynch, and 1986’s “Can’t Wait to See You,” earlier than disbanding on the finish of the last decade.
Eurogliders reunited a number of occasions, each within the mid-2000s for an album launch and to carry out on the Countdown Spectacular nostalgia tour, and once more in 2023 for the Sundown Sounds beachside competition.
Lynch was identified with throat most cancers in 2024, and underwent profitable remedy. The sickness, nonetheless, was later discovered to have unfold into his bones and organs, and he began to deteriorate quickly, Knight explains.
“Bernie was an extremely form and caring individual and beneficiant to a fault. He’d fuss about ensuring the band have been completely satisfied and had after present cheese and biscuits and a refreshing beverage. He’d come to remain at my home and switch up with luggage of meals and take over the kitchen. He was humorous and clever and fascinating. In case you weren’t effectively, or life had thrown you a curve ball, he’d be the primary one on the telephone to see the way you have been going,” she continues.
And, in fact, there’s the songs.
“With out Bernie’s songs, there could be no Eurogliders,” Knight explains. “Songs he wrote as a younger man which are nonetheless being listened to, songs that 40 years later nonetheless get performed on the radio, songs that individuals nonetheless sing alongside to at our reveals, songs which have introduced a lot pleasure to so many individuals. What a terrific legacy and such a improbable contribution to the cultural panorama of this nation.”
