NSW: Magic Dirt bass player Dean Turner dies from cancer

AAP General News (Australia)
08-24-2009
NSW: Magic Dirt bass player Dean Turner dies from cancer

Bass player DEAN TURNER from the Australian indie rock band Magic Dirt has died from
lung cancer .. aged 37.

TURNER formed the Geelong-based band with then-girlfriend ADALITA SRSSEN in the late 80s.

It's broken up and re-formed on the road to success .. and its Life Was Better EP is
still one of Australia's best-selling independent releases.

The ABC says Magic Dirt's been touring with a fill-in bass player due to TURNER's ill
health .. and has cancelled the first leg of its current tour.

It says TURNER is survived by a wife and two young daughters.

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