Flesh for Lulu's Nick Marsh Dies From Cancer at Age 53
Nick Marsh in 1988 (photo: Paul Natkin/Getty Images)
Nick Marsh, lead singer of ‘80s British post-punk band Flesh for Lulu and later the bands Gigantic and Urban Voodoo Machine, has died at age 53, after battling throat and mouth cancer.
A message posted on the Marsh Family Cancer Crisis Fund on Friday read:
Dear all,
Sadly, Nick lost his fight this morning. He passed peacefully away, with Kat by his side holding his hand. A massive thank you to everyone who has shown support, in so many ways, to Nick, Kat and their beautiful girls. We’ve lost a good’un.
xx
Marsh co-founded Flesh for Lulu in 1982, and the band had a string of college radio hits, including “Postcards From Paradise” (which was later covered by both the Goo Goo Dolls and the Replacements’ Paul Westerberg) and “Siamese Twist.” Their best-known single, however, was “I Go Crazy,” which was the theme song to the John Hughes coming-of-age film Some Kind of Wonderful in 1987.
Flesh for Lulu disbanded shortly after their 1989 album Plastic Fantastic failed to match the success of its predecessor, Long Live the New Flesh, and the band was dropped by Capitol Records. Marsh subsequently busied himself with Gigantic and Urban Voodoo Machine and a 2006 solo album, and attempted to revive Flesh for Lulu in 2013 — but his cancer diagnosis and an unsuccessful IndieGoGo campaign thwarted those reunion plans.
Recently, Marsh had been working with his wife, Katharine Blake (of Miranda Sex Garden and the Mediaeval Baebes), aka the “Kat” referenced in the message above, on a new project, From the Deep. From the Deep’s debut album remains unreleased.
