Trivia / Nick Cave

• Black Sheep Hit:
  • "Where the Wild Roses Grow" from Murder Ballads made it to the top of several European charts and received much play on MTV. The video won an MTV Music Award which Cave politely declined by essentially stating "I don't believe art should be rated."
  • American audiences mostly know him as the singer of "Red Right Hand" from Let Love In which was featured in Hellboy, Dumb and Dumber, the Scream movies, Peaky Blinders, and The X-Files.
  • While Harry Potter fans may know him as the singer of "O Children", memorably used in Deathly Hallows Part 1.
• Creator Breakdown: Led to the somber releases Your Funeral, My Trial, The Boatman's Call and Skeleton Tree.
  • Skeleton Tree especially considering that while he was already working on the album, his son's abrupt passing is what lead to the bleak and somber tone of the album.
• Dye Hard: Has been doing it since he was sixteen, and promised to keep doing so until he dies.
• Shout-Out: To the Peter Straub novella The Juniper Tree in "Do You Love Me? (Part 2)". The story is about a young boy repeatedly molested by a stranger who meets him in a movie theater and his searing lifelong guilt and shame over the abuse. The song might as well be a soundtrack for the story.
• What Could Have Been: He wrote a script for Gladiator 2, where Maximus fought demons in Hades and lived long enough to see the 20th century ...huh.

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