Overview
Tracy Pew
Known For
Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party
The thrilling, debauched and frequently hilarious adventures of the legendary...
Mutiny! The Last Birthday Party
When director Heiner Mühlenbrock showed up with his cameras to...
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.