SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Greg Ham, whose saxophone and flute punctuated the Australian band Men at Work’s 1980s hits, was found dead at his home in Melbourne on Thursday. He was 58.


The Victoria state police confirmed the death and said it did not appear to be suspicious, although the cause was not immediately known. Two concerned friends who had not heard from Mr. Ham in some time found his body after going to check on him, the police said.


Men at Work topped charts around the world in 1982 with the songs “Who Can It Be Now?,” which featured Mr. Ham’s saxophone, and “Down Under,” on which he played flute. Both songs reached No. 1 in the United States, and the group won the Grammy Award for best new artist in 1983.


“Down Under” became an unofficial anthem for Australia. But it came under intense scrutiny in recent years after Men at Work was accused of stealing the catchy flute riff played by Mr. Ham from the children’s song “Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.”


The publisher of “Kookaburra” sued the band, and in 2010 a judge ruled that Men at Work had copied the melody. The group was ordered to hand over a portion of its royalties and lost its last appeal in October 2011.


Mr. Ham later said that the controversy had left him devastated, and that he worried it would tarnish his legacy.


“It will be the way the song is remembered, and I hate that,” he told the Melbourne newspaper The Age. “I’m terribly disappointed that that’s the way I’m going to be remembered — for copying something.”


Mr. Ham also played keyboards with Men at Work and recently worked as a guitar teacher.


Information on survivors was not immediately available.