Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst has died at the age of 70, his bandmates have confirmed.
Hirst had been fighting advanced pancreatic cancer. In a post to Midnight Oil’s Facebook page, the band said Hirst had died peacefully, “surrounded by loved ones”.
Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst has died at the age of 70.Credit: Robert Hambling
“After fighting heroically for almost three years, Rob is now free of pain – ‘a glimmer of tiny light in the wilderness’.
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Debbie Cuthbertson is a senior writer and Saturday chief of staff at The Age.
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