Her track Goodbye Horses soundtracked one of the 90s thriller’s most memorable scenes, but the singer ended up driving cabs and dying in obscurity. Now a new documentary lets her tell her storyIn August 2019, the New York film-maker Eva Aridjis Fuentes embarked on a cab ride that would change her life. Though her driver sported sunglasses and a turban, Aridjis Fuentes thought she looked eerily familiar. “The driver played Neil Young’s Harvest album in its entirety; we sang Heart of Gold together. I asked if she’d ever seen Neil play. She said: ‘Oh no, my concert days are long over’. So then I asked if she’d ever seen Q Lazzarus.”Q Lazzarus was the stage name of Diane Luckey, a singer from the 80s whose song Goodbye Horses had soundtracked Buffalo Bill’s infamous nipple-tweaking scene in The Silence of the Lambs. The track became a cult classic, covered by Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke, Deftones’ Chino Moreno and MGMT among others. Q vanished in the mid-90s, with many, including fri...
Q Lazzarus, whose real name was Diane Luckey, was a 1980s singer known for her haunting song *Goodbye Horses*, which became iconic after appearing in the 1991 film *The Silence of the Lambs*. After gaining fame, Lazzarus vanished from the public eye in the mid-1990s, with many believing she was dead. She later worked as a taxi driver and died in 2022. A new documentary, *Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus*, directed by Eva Aridjis Fuentes, explores her life, career, and mysterious disappearance. The film, set to release in 2025, features unheard music from Lazzarus's extensive catalogue and sheds light on her story, which she wanted to tell before her death.
