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‘Trouble seemed to be part of my DNA’: Nick Cave on his teenage years – Sydney Morning Herald
In an extract from the soon-to-be-released Boy on Fire, the boy from Wangaratta faces a turning point.

Budding performer Nick Cave in 1976. From Boy on Fire by Mark Mordue.Credit:Ashley Mackevicius.
Nick may have “looked like an Art House wimp”, to use Calverts words, but to see him in a fight was, Mick Harvey agreed, “quite scary”. When Nick returned home to Wangaratta for the holidays, his old friend Bryan Wellington sensed the changes. Nick told him about it, how he had to fight. “How unhappy it made him. There was no violence in our growing-up time in Wang; Nick was not a toughie or an aggressive…
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