The Complete Lyrics

byNick Cave

1978–2022

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The perfect gift for Nick Cave fans! Discover the complete lyrics, spanning his entire career to date, with a new foreword by Andrew O'Hagan

From Nick Cave's writing for The Birthday Party, through highly acclaimed albums like Murder Ballads, Henry's Dream, DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! and Ghosteen, this is a must-have book for all fans of the dark, the beautiful and the defiant - for all fans of the songs of Nick Cave.

'The greatest living songwriter' NME

'A glowing wire, a mainline to meaning ad feeling and art' New Yorker

'Nick Cave is a true lyrical master. He can conjure empathy and hope out of thin air, light out of darkness' Cillian Murphy

'His lyrics - so rich in the toils of love, so committed to memory and everlasting presence - are the best-made of his generation' Andrew O'Hagan

'A poetic craftsman' Will Self

'Alternative rock legend' Billboard

'Cave's genius rings loud and clear' Evening Standard

Cover art by Aleksandra Waliszewska
Nick Cave is surely Australia's finest living songwriter
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About Nick Cave

Nick Cave has been writing and performing music for more than forty years and is best known as the songwriter and lead singer of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, with whom he has recorded seventeen studio albums. The band have been documented in two feature films: the BAFTA- and Sundance-winning 20,000 Days on Earth (2014) and the Grammy nominated One More Time With Feeling (2016). Nick Cave's novels And the Ass Saw the Angel (1990), The Death of Bunny Munro (2009) and The Sick Bag Song (2015) are international bestsellers, and he is an acclaimed film score composer and screenplay writer. Born in Australia in 1957, Cave now lives in England.
Details
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780241990155
  • Length: 640 pages
  • Dimensions: 199mm x 36mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 467g
  • Price: £16.99
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