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Rob Hirst, the drummer and co-founder of the Australian rock band Midnight Oil, has died.

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Hirst, born in Camden, New South Wales, founded the band that became Midnight Oil with schoolmates, and it released its debut album on its own independent label in 1978.

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Midnight Oil broke up in 2002 when singer Peter Garrett left to pursue a political career in Australia’s Labor Party.

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He self-released an album, “Born Electric,” in 2025, and an EP, “A Hundred Years or More,” with Midnight Oil bandmate Jim Moginie and Hamish Stuart.

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“He’s such a legend for all of us,” says Desplat, 63, on a Zoom call from London, where he’s been burning the midnight oil on the score for Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming “Frankenstein.”

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