Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst performs during a The Great Circle 2017 World Tour stop in Darwin, Australia on Oct. 4, 2017. Hirst ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rob Hirst performs with Midnight Oil in 1988 at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia. (Bill McCay / Getty Images) Rob Hirst, the ...

SYDNEY, Australia - Tributes are flowing for Rob Hirst, co-founder, co-songwriter and drummer for Midnight Oil, who died Wednesday (Jan. 20) following a years-long battle with cancer. He was 70. Hirst ...

Australian rockers Midnight Oil announced Tuesday that drummer and co-founder Rob Hirst is dead at 70. “After fighting heroically for almost three years, Rob is now free of pain – ‘a glimmer of tiny ...

Rob Hirst, the Australian rock drummer best known for cofounding the band Midnight Oil, has died following a battle with cancer. He was 70. Hirst's bandmates revealed the musician's death in an ...

Rob Hirst performs with Midnight Oil in 1988 at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia. (Bill McCay / Getty Images) Rob Hirst, the drummer and co-founder of the Australian rock band Midnight Oil, has died.

Drummer Rob Hirst, who co-founded the Australian rock group Midnight Oil and co-wrote some of the band’s biggest hits, has died. He was 70. “After fighting heroically for almost three years, Rob is ...

The global music industry has been rocked by the death of legendary Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst, 70, after an almost three-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Hirst is survived by his wife, Lesley ...