CHART-toppers Eskimo Joe have written a tribute to tragic star Heath Ledger.

Their new single and radio hit, Foreign Land, is about Ledger’s untimely death in New York, The Sunday Telegraph reports.

"New York is a big bad city in some respects,” Eskimo Joe singer Kav Temperley said.

"It’s got a coldness and loneliness to it.

"And this young man dying in a foreign land - we felt the loneliness of the situation.”

Eskimo Joe - Temperley, Joel Quartermain and Stuart McLeod - are from Ledger’s hometown, Perth.

"We came from the same town, we were the same age and we were in New York when he died,” Temperley said.

A powerful lyric in the song - "I smell the blood of an Australian” - is about the US media bloodlust following Ledger’s death.

"They pretended to be sorry, but they really loved it,” Quartermain said. "They loved the fact that somebody was dead.”

Source here:  www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,28383,25599702-7484,00.html

So they’re attacking the media for cashing in on Heath’s death by releasing a hit song that’s cashing in on Heath’s death? Hmm yes, I see what you did there.

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