Tracy Pew

Tracy Pew
A 23-year-old man stands akimbo, facing forward. He wears a black cowboy hat, sleeveless t-shirt, leather pants, a band on his left wrist and pointed shoes. He has a moustache and has tattoos on his upper arms. He is in front of a sign/art work which is mostly obscured but with a chequered flag, bones and the letters D and E visible. To his left and behind him is another man partly cut off at the edge of the image.
Tracy Pew of The Birthday Party, Victoria College, Prahran, 1981
Background information
Birth nameTracy Franklin Pew
Born(1957-12-19)19 December 1957
Australia
OriginMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died7 November 1986(1986-11-07) (aged 28)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
GenresRock and roll, post-punk
OccupationMusician
Instrument(s)Bass, double bass, wind, clarinet
Years active1975–1986
LabelsMushroom, Missing Link

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.