Bernie Lynch, founder of Australian pop group Eurogliders, has died at the age of 65.
Lynch underwent treatment after being diagnosed with throat cancer in 2024. While that treatment was successful, cancers began to appear throughout his body towards the end of 2025.
After founding bands The Stockings and Living Single, Lynch formed Eurogliders in 1980, recruiting frontwoman Grace Knight, who had recently moved to Perth from the UK.
“I don’t know how many shows Eurogliders have done over the years, it must be thousands, and for every single one of them, I’ve had Bernie there, standing beside me,” Knight, who was also married to Lynch in the 1980s, wrote in a Facebook post this morning.
“It’s been such a wonderful, wonderful journey and I’m so very proud and honoured to have shared it with him.”
Eurogliders split at the end of the 1980s but regathered in the mid-2000s to release their first album in 17 years and play as part of the Countdown Spectacular tour.
They reformed again in the 2010s and have stayed together since, releasing two more albums — their last was 2021’s The Blue Kiss Project — and touring intermittently.
The band’s last show was in Newcastle late last year and they were due to perform at Rock The Backyard festival in Penrith later this month.
Of the band’s many Australian hits, the biggest was Heaven (Must Be There), which peaked on the charts at number two upon its release in 1984 and reached number 21 on the US Billboard charts.
“Without Bernie’s songs, there would be no Eurogliders,” Knight wrote.
“Songs he wrote as a young man that are still being listened to, songs that 40 years later still get played on the radio, songs that people still sing along to at our shows, songs that have brought so much joy to so many people.
“What a great legacy and such a fantastic contribution to the cultural landscape of this country.”