Zoo Story: The Age of Nick Cave and Lou Reed

In 1998, Nick Cave gave a lecture. It was something he never wanted to do because his father was a teacher and when he was 12 he vowed he would never end up like this father, but there he was at the Vienna Poetry Festival, not in front of a drunk and high audience, but in front of a crowd of aesthetes and fatherly figures, speaking about The Secret Life of the Love Song.

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