{"id":482752,"date":"2019-02-26T17:08:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T00:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=800587"},"modified":"2019-02-26T17:08:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T00:08:22","slug":"andy-anderson-drummer-for-the-cure-iggy-pop-dead-at-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/andy-anderson-drummer-for-the-cure-iggy-pop-dead-at-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Anderson, Drummer for the Cure, Iggy Pop, Dead at 68"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/andy-anderson-obit-the-cure.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Andy Anderson, the drummer who enjoyed stints with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/iggy-pop\/\" id=\"auto-tag_iggy-pop\" data-tag=\"iggy-pop\">Iggy Pop<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-cure\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-cure\" data-tag=\"the-cure\">the Cure<\/a> while assisting an array of artists as a session musician, died Tuesday. He was 68.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Just last week, Anderson revealed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AndyAnderson60\/posts\/10215485210017640\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> that he had terminal cancer. Despite the diagnosis, he wrote, \u201c[P]lease, no boo hooing here, just be positive, for me it\u2019s just another life Experience and Hurdle, that one has to make yet another Choice in life, be cool, I most definitely am and positive about the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Founding member of the Cure Lol Tolhurst confirmed the news of Anderson\u2019s death. \u201cAndy Anderson was a true gentleman and a great musician with a wicked sense of humor which he kept until the end, a testament to his beautiful spirit on the last journey. We are blessed to have known him,\u201d Tolhurst <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LolTolhurst\/status\/1100538201402310657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.376146788991\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">It&#8217;s with a heavy heart, I have to report the passing of a Cure brother.<br \/>Andy Anderson was A true gentleman and a great musician with a wicked sense of humor which he kept until the end, a testament to his beautiful spirit on the last journey. We are blessed to have known him.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LolTolhurst\/status\/1100538201402310657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">February 26, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Anderson joined the Cure in 1983 after original drummer Laurence \u201cLol\u201d Tolhurst switched to keys. His first contributions were two cuts off the band\u2019s 1983 singles collection, <em>Japanese Whispers<\/em>, \u201cSpeak My Language\u201d and the \u201cThe Love Cats\u201d which became the Cure\u2019s first Top 10 hit in the U.K. Anderson also helped Robert Smith and Tolhurst record their 1984 record <em>The Top<\/em>, and he appeared on their live album, <em>Concert<\/em>, as well.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x83wluZqM2g?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Born in the West Ham neighborhood of London in January 1951, Anderson got his start as a professional musician when he teamed up with members of Hawkwind on their various side projects. He contributed to Nik Turner\u2019s Sphynx\u2019s 1978 album <em>Xitintoday<\/em> \u2013 credited as \u201cAndroid Anderson\u201d \u2013 and also played on Steve Hillage\u2019s three LPs, <em>Green, Live Herald<\/em> and <em>Open<\/em>. Anderson did play with Hawkwind on their 1983 tour, but he never recorded with them. Instead, he left the group to join Robert Smith and Siouxsie and the Banshees\u2019 1983 side project, the Glove, which released their first and only album, <em>Blue Sunshine<\/em>, in 1983.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">After his stint with the Cure, Anderson embarked on a long and successful career as a session musician. Over the course of his career he worked with Iggy Pop, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, the Sex Pistols\u2019 Glen Mattlock, Edwin Collins, Peter Gabriel and Isaac Hayes. More recently, Anderson was working extensively as a solo artist, and though he didn\u2019t release any proper albums, he put out an array of tracks under the moniker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Primetime66\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">AAMuzik<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/andy-anderson-the-cure-iggy-pop-drummer-dead-at-68-800587\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Anderson, the drummer who enjoyed stints with Iggy Pop and the Cure while assisting an array of artists as a session musician, died Tuesday. He was 68. Just last week, Anderson revealed on Facebook that he had terminal cancer. Despite the diagnosis, he wrote, \u201c[P]lease, no boo hooing here, just be positive, for me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-482752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 15:48:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}