American musician and producer who created Nine Inch Nails — the industrial rock project that produced The Downward Spiral and The Fragile — and who co-composed film scores for The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Soul, winning Academy Awards.
Created Hurt (1994) — a song about addiction and self-destruction — which Johnny Cash covered in 2002 and which became Cash's definitive late statement, the video for which was widely described as the greatest music video ever made, demonstrating how a great song can transcend its original context completely.
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