www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/122891310/max-merritt-singer-who-found-fame-with-slippin-away-dies-from-goodpasture-syndrome

Saw him in a London pub 1975 and I believe sometime in the 1960s with the Chicks at the Ingill Civic Theatre.
I see the Aussies are claiming him as one of their own, typical.