{"id":5303,"date":"2015-06-12T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/06\/12\/flesh-for-lulus-singer-nick-marsh-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2015-06-12T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T09:00:49","slug":"flesh-for-lulus-singer-nick-marsh-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/06\/12\/flesh-for-lulus-singer-nick-marsh-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Flesh for Lulu’s singer, Nick Marsh, passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"


Nick Marsh, lead singer of \u201880s British post-punk band Flesh for Lulu and later the bands Gigantic and Urban Voodoo Machine, has died at age 53, after battling throat and mouth cancer. A message posted on the Marsh Family Cancer Crisis Fund on Friday read:<\/p>\n

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Dear all, <\/em><\/p>\n

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Sadly, Nick lost his fight this morning. He passed peacefully away, with Kat by his side holding his hand. A massive thank you to everyone who has shown support, in so many ways, to Nick, Kat and their beautiful girls. We\u2019ve lost a good\u2019un. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Marsh co-founded Flesh for Lulu in 1982, and the band had a string of college radio hits, including \u201cPostcards From Paradise\u201d (which was later covered by both the Goo Goo Dolls<\/a> and the Replacements\u2019 Paul Westerberg<\/a>) and \u201cSiamese Twist.\u201d Their best-known single, however, was \u201cI Go Crazy,\u201d which was the theme song to the John Hughes coming-of-age film Some Kind of Wonderful<\/em> in 1987.<\/p>\n

Flesh for Lulu disbanded shortly after their 1989 album Plastic Fantastic<\/em> failed to match the success of its predecessor, Long Live the New Flesh<\/em>, and the band was dropped by Capitol Records. Marsh subsequently busied himself with Gigantic and Urban Voodoo Machine and a 2006 solo album, and attempted to revive Flesh for Lulu in 2013 \u2014 but his cancer diagnosis and an unsuccessful IndieGoGo campaign thwarted those reunion plans.<\/p>\n

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Source: Yahoo Music<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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