Grant Hart, Hüsker Dü Drummer And Songwriter, Is Dead At 56
Hart, who wrote songs like "Turn on the News" for the influential Minneapolis band and went on to become a fixture of the city after the band's dissolution, battled cancer publicly for many years.
Grant Hart, a drummer and songwriter best-known as a member of Minneapolis' widely influential punk trio Hüsker Dü, died Wednesday night at 9:02 p.m. at the University of Minnesota Medical Center of complications from liver cancer and hepatitis, his wife, Brigid McGough, confirmed to NPR. He was 56 years old.
The seed of Hüsker Dü — named after a phonetic game its members played with the Talking Heads song, Hart closed the store after Mould mentioned he played guitar: "I'm gonna close the store and I wanna go see you play right now."
