Nick Drake: The Life

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If i can travel through times, i will go to the time where nick was still alive and be friends with him. It uses previously unseen family papers to illuminate Drake’s final years, in which, despairing at his apparent failure as a musician, he withdrew to his detested childhood home in Tanworth-in-Arden.

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and talk about the songs and the surreal cover like they’re a puzzle they can solve, but Pink Moon is like the Book of Revelation. An enigmatic figure who has been recognised more since his death, at the age of 26 in 1974, than before.Upon discovering that they were in its grand dining room, says Julian, “Rick went in with Nick and told them how great Nick was at the guitar.

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The last three chapters of this book are grindingly saddening, watching Drake, confused, angry and deeply disturbed, taking, then avoiding, medication, subjected to ECT, turning up unannounced at friends’ houses, then just sitting in baffling silence. Born in Rangoon, he lived a life of genteel privilege in Warwickshire from the age of two where his parents, “old Burma hands” in the colonial parlance, doted on him and his sister. Pink Moon was the product of a period of intense, secretive songwriting, during which the singer’s behaviour became more erratic and his mental health deteriorated, much to the anguish of family and friends.Het moet niet eenvoudig geweest zijn om dit portret te schrijven: Nick Drake heeft buiten zijn muziek haast niets achtergelaten, geen echte interviews afgelegd, meer een handjevol optredens gegeven en vanaf een bepaalde tijd nauwelijks meer een woord gezegd. Allow me to assure you it is not – but it is a terribly important time in the development of you as a person into something that you are going to start to be at about the age of 23. Richard Morton Jack’s authoritative doorstop is, though, the definitive word on Drake, insofar as the story of a deeply inward-facing man can be told by others.

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One thing that has been overstated, he says, is “the extent to which Nick’s background was privileged”.

The winning of a degree may seem to bear little significance to you, and the argument that it is a safety net if you come a cropper with your music will doubtless evoke the response that a safety net is just what you don’t want. But in the years since, posthumous releases like 1979’s Fruit Tree box set and 1994’s Way to Blue compilation, alongside veneration from the likes of Kate Bush, The Cure and Paul Weller, helped deliver tangible momentum. The few reviews were universally complimentary – one American reviewer likened its “consistent beauty” to Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks.