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‘No longer in awe of my own genius’: Nick Cave talks about how he changed after sons’ deaths


In revealing ABC interview conducted on anniversary of elder son’s death, singer-songwriter acknowledges ‘disgraceful self-indulgence’ in earlier years

In 2022, Cave announced that his eldest son, Jethro Lazenby had also died, at the age of 31, not long after he was found guilty of unlawful assault for physically attacking his mother. “There’s a great beauty in the Red Hand Files that, you know, it’s an extreme privilege to be receiving these letters from people. Cave told Sales he hopes to be the “grandfather that sits in the armchair and says inappropriate things and has a terrible influence over everybody but the child secretly loves.”

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