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Mental As Anything founding member and songwriter Andrew “Greedy” Smith suffered a heart attack in his car on December 3rd. He was 63 years old.
Smith was the last original band member still performing on the recent Mental As Anything tour.
The Mentals were massive in Australia, we even wrote about them in 2008: “Again, there are a tonne of notable songs that I could talk about including the 1979 single "The Nips Are Getting Bigger" to “Mr Natural”, which was their most recent song to enter the Australian Top 40 charts in 1995. Two of the songs that figure most prominently in my childhood are “Live It Up” (1985) and “Too Many Times” (1981). Both more pop than rock, but Live It Up being significantly more reminiscent of what music was like in the mid-80’s.”
For the full death list head over to Musicians who died in 2019.
December (8)
[04 Dec 2019] Rosa Morena (Spanish flamenco pop singer), 78, cancer
[03 Dec 2019] Andrew "Greedy" Smith (British songwriter for Mental As Anything), 63, heart attack
[03 Dec 2019] Arthur Baysting (New Zealand musician), 72
[03 Dec 2019] Shaaban Abdel Rahim (Egyptian shaabi singer), 62
[02 Dec 2019] Jimmy Cavallo (American musician), 92, heart failure
[02 Dec 2019] Jacques Morgantini (French record producer and promoter), 95
[02 Dec 2019] Greedy Smith (Australian musician for Mental As Anything), 63, heart attack
[01 Dec 2019] Stuart Fraser (Australian musician for Blackfeather), 57, lung cancer
Smith was the last original band member still performing on the recent Mental As Anything tour.
The Mentals were massive in Australia, we even wrote about them in 2008: “Again, there are a tonne of notable songs that I could talk about including the 1979 single "The Nips Are Getting Bigger" to “Mr Natural”, which was their most recent song to enter the Australian Top 40 charts in 1995. Two of the songs that figure most prominently in my childhood are “Live It Up” (1985) and “Too Many Times” (1981). Both more pop than rock, but Live It Up being significantly more reminiscent of what music was like in the mid-80’s.”
For the full death list head over to Musicians who died in 2019.
December (8)
