Old Saint Nick: Nick Cave
Barney Hoskyns, Dazed & Confused, October 2004
ON ABATTOIR BLUES, the cheerily-titled first half of the new double album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, there is a song called There She Goes, My Beautiful World.
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