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Rose Tattoo guitarist Mick Cocks dies from cancer, months after benefit gig
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The Daily Telegraph
23 December 2009



Mick Cocks, founder of Rose Tattoo, has lost his battle with liver cancer.

A brief statement on the band's website confirmed the death of the Sydney rocker yesterday.

"We're very sad to announce that Rose Tattoo founding member and guitarist Mick Cocks lost his battle against liver cancer and passed away today, on December 22th,'' the statement read.

He had been battling the disease for about twelve months.

The performer passed away in a Sydney hospital.

Describing him as a "true Australian rocker'', Rose Tattoo manager Stephen White said that Cocks' death was "devastating''.

"It is devastating. You know, what can you say though?'' Mr White told Fairfax Radio Network.

"Mick got ill about a year ago and it was looking pretty good for a while but he got very ill.''

A fan posting on the Rose Tattoo official website said the musician was a legend.

"Mick is one of the legends of Australian music. He's still too young to be leaving us,'' the fan wrote.

The band announced in April that Cocks had developed liver cancer, saying it made the announcement to prevent speculation about his illness.

The statement said Cocks, a smoker, was in good spirits after the diagnosis and was being treated by the "very best'' doctors in Sydney, adding that he was "ready for a fight''.

Cocks, along with frontman Gary "Angry" Anderson, was a founding member of Rose Tattoo.

The band went on to enjoy significant international success with its brand of slide-guitar driven rock.

His death comes just months after some of Australia's best-loved rockers joined forces to put on a benefit gig for the stricken performer.

Rose Tattoo, Jimmy Barnes, You Am I, Ian Moss and The Screaming Jets played at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney in July to raise money for Cocks.

Cocks is the fourth member of the band to die from cancer since 2006.

Ian Rilen and Pete Wells died in 2006, Lobby Loyde in 2007.

Drummer Digger Royal died in 1991.

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