Anthony Lawrence Cohen (4 June 19572 August 2017) was an Australian music record producer and sound engineer. He worked with Nick Cave's groups the Birthday Party, and then the Bad Seeds from 1979 to 2001. In mid-1986 he had followed Cave to London and then onto Berlin, in January 1987, to continue to work on their material. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1994 Cohen won Producer of the Year for The Cruel Sea's second album, The Honeymoon Is Over (May 1993). At the 1995 ceremony he won Producer of the Year and Engineer of the Year for the Cruel Sea's Three Legged Dog. Cohen had been a long-term alcohol and drug user, his health deteriorated in the 2010s and he died in 2017 at Dandenong Hospital, aged 60. In November 2017 he was posthumously inducted into the Music Victoria Hall of Fame. Biography Anthony Lawrence Cohen was born on 4 June 1957 in Melbourne. His father, Philip Cohen, was an Australian son of Jewish migrants from Manchester, Philip had converted to Roman Catholicism before marrying Margaret, who was an Australian of Irish descent. He grew up in suburban East Ringwood where he attended St Francis de Sales Primary School. The family moved to Mentone with a younger sibling, where Cohen was enrolled at St Bede's College for his secondary education. While at Bede's he started taking drugs including marijuana/hash, amytal and LSD, which adversely affected his academic progress. Cohen started to play the drums when the family had moved to the neighbouring suburb of Cheltenham and formed a friendship with fellow aspiring drummer, Chris Thompson. He later recalled, "Neither of us were very good drummers I might admit but we shared a mutual love of music and playing." Cohen, aged 15, joined a rock, glam rock band Epitaph on drums for a year. He bought a four-track recorder to tape their work and then recorded other local groups. During school holidays in mid-1973 he spent two weeks doing work experience at Armstrong Studios. His friend Thompson went along for a day and both decided on a career in the recording studio. After work experience he refused to return to school but continued at the studios, "No one said anything, so I stayed." For two years he was a "shit-kicker", and started by, "cleaning the toilets and getting the lunches and stuff, and then got promoted to mono dubbing boy."