{"id":520026,"date":"2026-07-10T23:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/520026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T23:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:42:15","slug":"cold-chisel-sax-player-andy-bickers-dies-mourned-by-jimmy-barnes-and-bandmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/520026\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold Chisel sax player Andy Bickers dies, mourned by Jimmy Barnes and bandmates"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cAndy was our brother: an incredible musician and a great person to be out on the road or out on the town with,\u201d Cold Chisel wrote on social media. <\/p>\n
\u201cHis valuable contribution onstage to songs like Rising Sun, Saturday Night and My Baby will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur hearts break for his wife Lisa and his son Rudy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barnes also honoured his buddy.<\/p>\n
Jimmy Barnes described Andy Bickers as ‘funny, intelligent, and most importantly, he was a good man’.<\/p>\n
\u201cAndy also toured many times with me, playing soul and rock shows,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe were friends not only because he was a great player but he was funny, intelligent, and most importantly, he was a good man.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cLots of love to Lisa and Rudy. You will be sadly missed, Andy x.\u201d<\/p>\n
Midnight Oil also posted to social media, talking about the \u201csignature power and passion\u201d of Bickers\u2019 playing style.<\/p>\n
\u201cVale much loved sax player for the Oils and so many other artists – Andy Bickers – who left us today after a long illness. Our thoughts are with his wife Lisa and son Rudy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAndy was our brother: an incredible musician and a great person to be out on the road or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,95,18214,170407,66429,58422,5837,257904,3595,2534,257903,4509,6179,7126,171762,1736,82593,4754,147656,15121,111,43,139,69,9617,154202,165,102],"class_list":["post-520026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-and","tag-andy","tag-bandmate","tag-bandmates","tag-barnes","tag-battle","tag-bickers","tag-by","tag-cancer","tag-chisel","tag-cold","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-hardfought","tag-jimmy","tag-kiwiborn","tag-members","tag-mourned","tag-mourning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-player","tag-sax","tag-their","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}