Eurogliders, the Australian band formed in Perth in 1980, died on March 17, 2026.
The group included Grace Knight on vocals, Bernie Lynch on guitar and vocals, and Amanda Vincent on keyboards. In 1984, Eurogliders released the top ten album This Island, which produced the No.
2 single “Heaven (Must Be There).” Their 1985 album Absolutely also reached the Australian top ten and yielded the singles “We Will Together” and “Can’t Wait to See You.” The band disbanded in 1989, reformed in 2005, and later released further studio albums.
Eurogliders are an Australian band formed in 1980 in Perth, Western Australia, which has included Grace Knight on vocals, Bernie Lynch on guitar and vocals and Amanda Vincent on keyboards. In 1984, Eurogliders released an Australian top ten album, This Island, which spawned their No. 2 hit single, “Heaven (Must Be There)”. “Heaven” also peaked at No. 21 on the United States Billboard Mainstream Rock charts and appeared on the Hot 100. Another Australian top ten album, Absolutely, followed in 1985, which provided two further local top ten singles, “We Will Together” and “Can’t Wait to See You”. They disbanded in 1989, with Knight having a successful career as a jazz singer. Australian rock music historian Ian McFarlane described Eurogliders as “the accessible face of post-punk new wave music. The band’s sophisticated brand of pop was traditional in its structure, but displayed the decidedly ‘modern veneer’ (hip clothes, heavy use of synthesiser)”. The band reformed in 2005 releasing two new studio albums followed in 2014 by their seventh studio album.