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The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013 by Nick Cave

ISBN: 9780241966587 PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd FORMAT: Paperback

PUBLICATION DATE: 12.09.2013 DIMENSIONS: 198mmX129mmX32mm 359grams

DESCRIPTION: This is the complete collection of Nick Cave lyrics spanning his entire career, from 1978 until 2013, revised and updated by the cult rock star. "He is an Australian artist like Sidney Nolan is an Australian artist - beyond comparison, beyond genre, beyond dispute". (from Nick Cave's induction into the Australian Hall of Fame). This complete collection of Nick Cave's lyrics spans his entire career, from his writing for The Birthday Party through the highly acclaimed Murder Ballads and The Boatman's Call to recent work with Grinderman and his 2013 album, Push the Sky Away. Brought together in one volume, these lyrics make up one of the most outstanding achievements of contemporary music. Switching between the cynical and the sanguine, the defeated and the defiant, Nick Cave deals in love, war, beauty, children, romance, rejection, Pethedine, poetry, pants, money, flowers and so much more...From the bestselling author of And the Ass Saw the Angel and The Death of Bunny Munroe this definitive collection will be adored by Nick Cave fans everywhere. "His lyrics deal with passion on the edge, and are peopled with mad bayou preachers, black-hearted lovers and killers. His language is rich, poetic, apocalyptic". (Guardian). "Richly poetic creations which live a second life on the page...Essential reading". (Vox). Nick Cave was born in Australia in 1957. He moved to London with his band The Birthday Party in 1990 and four years later he fo

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