Midnight Oil’s beating heart, Rob Hirst, dead at 70 after pancreatic cancer battle

Started counted his days

“There were no parameters, guidelines or pressures of what a reunited Father/Daughter collaboration should sound like. Each song is a snapshot. Each song has its own space and story.”

Hirst final project, an solo EP titled A Hundred Years or More, was released last November.

”Now that I’ve started counting back in life rather than counting forward, the days are even more precious,” Hirst said in one of his final interviews and added:

“I still wake in the night with lyrics and melodies. Musical insomnia. If you’re a songwriter, blessed or cursed, it’s always there. Maybe there’s a couple more songs. You never say never.”

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