Posted: 12:38 AM EDT September 25, 2020 | Updated: 1:18 a.m. EDT September 25, 2020
Australian music legend Max Merritt died in Los Angeles hospital after being diagnosed with rare and serious autoimmune disease
The musician, of Max Merritt and the Meteors fame, died Thursday, he was 79 years old
He was battling Goodpasture syndrome, an autoimmune disease where the body mistakenly makes antibodies that attack the lungs and kidneys
Australian music legend Max Merritt died in Los Angeles hospital after being diagnosed with rare severe autoimmune disease
Merritt, of fame to Max Merritt and Meteora, had battled Goodpasture syndrome, an autoimmune disease in which your body mistakenly makes antibodies that attack the lungs and kidneys
His manager and friend Wal Bishop shared the heartbreaking news of his death in a statement Friday
« Max has been on dialysis three days a week since he got sick in 2007, » he said
‘He really fought and will be sadly missed by all who knew and loved him
« Max hadn’t been able to perform live for the past 13 years but, when he felt up to it, he went to the studio to record, » Bishop said.
‘He even shot a video to accompany the songs, it’s a shame he’s not here to see it’
He was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2008 alongside Dragon, Russell Morris and The Triffids
His manager Wal Bishop says Merritt has been on dialysis three days a week since 2007
His manager and friend Wal Bishop shared the heartbreaking news of his death in a statement on Friday (Photo: Australian 60s and 70s rock legend Max Merritt with longtime manager Wal Bishop)
The ‘King of Soul’ was born in April 1941 in Christchurch, New Zealand, but eventually made his home in Australia
He moved to the UK in the 1960s before moving to Los Angeles in the 1970s
Skyhooks rose to fame in the mid-1970s with hits such as Horror Movie, Ego is Not A Dirty Word, All My Friends Are Getting Married, and Women in Uniform
The band stopped performing regularly when frontman Graeme ‘Shirley’ Strachan died in a helicopter crash in Queensland in 2001
The death of former Skyhooks guitarist Peter Starkie is the latest in a series of tragic events to rock one of Australia’s biggest bands of the 1970s
Former Skyhooks frontman Peter Starkie (right) died on Sunday after falling from a ladder at his home His death was the latest in a string of tragedies that rocked the famous 1970s Australian band
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