7/8/2023 0 Comments Nick cave reinhard kleist![]() ![]() ![]() In these scenes Cave is arch and petulant, sparring with bandmates while drowning in the bleak sorrow of London and missing his girlfriend, Anita Lane. In the book’s more realistic passages, we see the musician and his band eschew his native Australia for London, living in squalor whilst fine-tuning his violent stage act. It’s hard to imagine Nick Cave as a young man, before his persona took hold. Instead, it’s a fever dream that cherry-picks from the legends surrounding Cave’s destructive rise with the Birthday Party to entire digressions where songs such as “Jangling Jack” come to life before our very eyes. Mercy on Me is a blood-splattered funhouse of what Cave himself calls “biographical half-truths and complete fabulations.” This isn’t the Nick Cave we’ve seen laid bare in recent documentaries 20,000 Days on Earth and One More Time with Feeling. However, writer Reinhard Kleist will disappoint anyone looking for a straight telling of the Australian’s backstory. Joining the canon of indelible stars is Nick Cave, who now has a graphic novel, Nick Cave: Mercy on Me, dedicated to his history. Robert Johnson meeting the Devil at the crossroads, Jim Morrison possessed by the spirit of a dead Native American, whatever yarn Bob Dylan is currently spinning about his youthful days in Minnesota-these legends fuel the larger-than-life images we enjoy ascribing our rock heroes. ![]() The biggest music gods come with extraordinary origin stories. ![]()
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