When was Andy Rourke born? Where was Andy Rourke born? Where did Andy Rourke live?

When was Andy Rourke born? Where was Andy Rourke born? – Andy Rourke, the bassist for indie icons the Smiths, died at the age of 59 on January 17, 1964, in Manchester, Lancashire.

Guitarist Johnny Marr announced Rourke’s death on social media, writing:

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Andy Rourke after a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer. Andy will be remembered as a kind and beautiful soul by those who knew him and as a supremely gifted musician by music fans. We request privacy at this sad time.

Where did Andy Rourke live?

At the time he died, Rourke was living in New York City. He moved there in 2009.

In New York City, Rourk had a program on East Village Radio and worked as a club DJ with Olé Koretsky under the name Jetlag.

Later, Rourke and Koretsky formed the band D.A.R.K. with singer Dolores O’Riordan from The Cranberries.

Andy Rourke’s early life and legacy

When Rourke was seven years old, his parents gifted him an acoustic guitar.

At the age of 11, he encountered the young John Maher (later Johnny Marr), with whom he shared a musical passion.

They spent their lunch breaks at school jamming and playing guitars. When Marr and Rourke started a band, he persuaded Rourke (who was still a guitarist at the time) to try out the bass, which he fell in love with and has kept with since.

Rourke dropped out of school when he was 15 years old. He worked in a variety of menial jobs while also playing guitar and bass in numerous rock bands and the short-lived funk outfit Freak Party with his school friend Johnny Marr.

Afterward, Marr formed the Smiths with Morrissey. Rourke joined the band shortly after its debut performance and stayed for the majority of its lifespan.

He was fired from the band in early 1986 due to heroin addiction, but returned two weeks later, right before the release of The Queen Is Dead.

Rourke contributed to the Smiths’ famous back catalog, which included singles like This Charming Man and There Is a Light That Never Goes Out.

He has recorded with Sinead O’Connor, the Pretenders, Ian Brown, and, in the group DARK, Cranberries vocalist Dolores O’Riordan. He also played in the supergroup Freebass with two other prominent Manchester bass guitarists, New Order’s Peter Hook, and the Stone Roses’ Mani.