A song’s true meaning

Updated January 24 2017 - 12:21pm, first published August 31 2016 - 9:45am
POET: Iva Davies in The Netherlands in March, 1983, seven months after Great Southern Land was released in August, 1982. Picture: GETTY IMAGES
POET: Iva Davies in The Netherlands in March, 1983, seven months after Great Southern Land was released in August, 1982. Picture: GETTY IMAGES

Iva Davies decided to borrow a literary device from beat novelist William S. Burroughs when he sat down to write Icehouse's 1982 record Primitive Man.

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