, died May 26 in Santa Monica, Calif. at age 71. His death was revealed Wednesday in a press release, which revealed Lee died after battling colon cancer for three years.
The story of the Nerves provides a chapter in the just-released documentary “Peter Case: A Million Miles Away,” for which Lee was interviewed prior to the pandemic and became one of the doc’s more entertaining and candid participants. Lee ascribes the too-quick breakup of the trio to it having consisted of “three narcissists.
Another Lee song, “You Are My Lover,” which did not appear on any of his albums, was covered by Suzi Quatro for 1979’s “Suzi… and Other Four Letter Words,” her second-highest charting album.