A widely acclaimed biography of one of rock's most compelling uncompromising & influential singer-songwriters Ian Johnston's BAD SEED offers a superb overview of Nick Cave's career to date Through Cave's fronting of the incendiary bands The Birthday Party & The Bad Seeds producing music of unfettered expression & explosive intensity to his creative collaborations outside of the rock industry in film & literature BAD SEED illustrates a life lived in barely controlled chaos & unravels the motivation & unique appeal of a reluctant icon whose songs according to the Rolling Stones possess "the authority of the most primal kind of myth"