Tracy Pew
Biography
Tracy Franklin Pew (19 December 1957 – 7 November 1986) was an Australian musician, and bassist for The Birthday Party. He was later a member of The Saints, and worked with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. As a member of the Birthday Party, Pew became associated with their "prodigious consumption of drugs and alcohol". In 1982, he was imprisoned for ten weeks in HM Prison Won Wron on charges relating to driving under the influence of alcohol. He died on 7 November 1986 of a brain haemorrhage, after sustaining head injuries during an epileptic seizure; he was aged 28.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Kicking Against The Pricks
1986
Junkyard
1982
Hee-Haw
1989
Live 81-82
1999
Prayers On Fire
1981
Mutiny / The Bad Seed E.P.
1989
Dogs In Space (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1986
It's Still Living
1985
Door, Door
1979
Six Strings That Drew Blood
2014
The Peel Session (21st April 1981)
1987
Drunk On The Pope's Blood / The Agony Is The Ecstacy
1982
Crime & Punishment
1989
Credited work
343 releases · 35 albums · active 1978–2025
- Performance · 670
- Other credits · 48
Studios: AAV · Hansa Tonstudios · Richmond Recorders · Matrix Studios
Frequent collaborators
- The Birthday Party
- The Boys Next Door
- Various
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- Honeymoon In Red
- Nick Cave & The Birthday Party
- Birthday Party
- Boys Next Door