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Chris Bailey, the singer, songwriter, and sole permanent member of the legendary Australian punk band the Saints, died Saturday. Now his fellow Australian music icon Nick Cave, Bailey’s longtime friend and collaborator, has shared a written tribute to Bailey in the latest issue of his fan-mailbag newsletter The Red Hand Files. A reader named Dan posed the question, “I just heard about Chris Bailey’s death. What an amazing voice, what an amazing scream. Can you tell us something about what he meant to you as a young musician in Australia?” Here is Cave’s reponse:
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Nick Cave has a way of writing about unimaginable grief that feels warm and conversational enough to make the feeling tangible. He also has a way of writing about silly things in ways that can be shockingly moving. Cave regularly does both in his Red Hand Files newsletter, and his latest update is a sharp, bracing example of that. Even a questio...
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