A long-serving member of Aussie rock legends Cold Chisel has died following a battle with cancer.<\/p>\n
The Adelaide-formed pub rockers announced via Instagram that Andy Bickers, the band\u2019s longstanding saxophone, died on Friday morning.<\/p>\n
In an emotional social media post, the band described the saxophonist as a \u201cbrother and an incredible musician\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur much-loved sax player of more than 30 years, Andy Bickers, passed away this morning after a hard-fought battle with cancer,\u201d the post reads.<\/p>\n
\u201cAndy was our brother; an incredible musician and a great person to be out on the road or out on the town with.<\/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
Chisel lead singer Jimmy Barnes paid personal tribute to Bickers.<\/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 Barnes posted.<\/p>\n
\u201cLots of love to Lisa and Rudy.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou will be sadly missed, Andy x\u201d<\/p>\n
Following the news of Bickers\u2019 death, tributes were shared under the post, including from former breakfast TV host Michael Rowland.<\/p>\n
\u201cRIP Andy. Condolences to his family. Thanks for the music,\u201d he wrote, adding a heart<\/p>\n
Originally from Wellington in New Zealand, Bickers relocated to Australia after growing fascinated with Aussie music videos.<\/p>\n
He became a regular fixture on the live circuits of Melbourne and Sydney.<\/p>\n
He then was invited to join Jimmy Barnes\u2019 touring band which led to him becoming a member of Cold Chisel.<\/p>\n
He has also toured with other big names including The Eagles, Midnight Oil and Diesel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A long-serving member of Aussie rock legends Cold Chisel has died following a battle with cancer. The Adelaide-formed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,168183,139,69],"class_list":["post-520310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newswire-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520310","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=520310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}