Personal Life
In Angry Anderson's 1994 biography, Angry - Scared for Life, the author Karen Dewey describes his life as "Sexually, physically and mentally abused he broke the brutal family pattern to become a besotted, devoted father of four". Anderson described how "here was physical and emotional violence in the family and a family friend began sexually abusing him from the age of five".
In 1982, prior to one of Rose Tattoo's European tours, Anderson met Lindy Michael. The couple's daughter, Roxanne was born in 1983. Anderson married Michael in January 1986, the couple also have three sons, Galen, Blaine and Liam. By 2002 Anderson and Michael were divorced. Anderson is a single father of four, and lives in the Sydney suburb of Beacon Hill. Although he does not believe in an omniscient god he attends the Baha'i temple regularly, "the spirituality I have given myself over to is the divine".
Having lost five Rose Tattoo band mates to cancer: Dallas Royall, Peter Wells, Ian Rilen, Lobby Lloyde and Mick Cocks; Anderson became an advocate for men's health. He appeared in a TV campaign promoting awareness of prostate cancer.
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