Remembering Anita Lane: much more than Nick Cave’s muse

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Anita Lane met Nick Cave at a party in Melbourne when she was 17 and he 19. The enigmatic Australian singer-songwriter died this week aged 61. NickCave Music

, the perennial encore stormer by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, a band of which she was an early member and had significant conceptual input.Then she disappeared. “They realised it wasn’t a healthy relationship,” is how bandmate Rowland Howard remembered their split. “Anita felt she was being squashed … Anita’s a fairly fragile sort of person and it took a far greater toll on her than it did on Nick.

As the old catch-all disclaimer goes, society is to blame. But I can’t help wondering how she might have fared in this one, where Lana Del Rey and Megan Thee Stallion and Taylor Swift and Anna Calvi and God knows how many others are nobody’s muse.I only spoke to Anita Lane once, maybe 25 years ago. She’d made an album at last, a kind of compilation calledIntoxicated Man

. She laughed a lot; she seemed mildly reluctant to talk about herself. Where had she been? Just living her life, apparently. Imagine., but when I heard she’d died on Thursday, it was an older verse of hers that sprang to mind: “You said the world’s a girl / And I’m taking her apart / And when I cried you said / Beggar girl, laugh / When my protests went wild / You brushed me aside / Like the finger of a child.

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