Nick Drake was barely 26 years old when he died in 1974. The British singer-songwriter made only three albums during his short life time: "Five Leaves Left", "Bryter Layer" and... more
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Time to Reply Review ofNick Drake: The Biography - Patrick Humphriesby
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Advantages: learn the method behind the melancholy Disadvantages: not for the faint hearted
...doubt we must exclaim that Nick Drake was a musical magician and any biography on him is always going to come in second best to his music. Just saying the name Nick Drake brings a smile to my face as i here his resonating exceptional unique music in my head.
For people who have never heard of Nick Drake i strongly urge you to go straight out and buy ‘Pink Moon’ (his third album). But remember do not listen and think of the rumours you’ve ... ...The book alone offers any Nick Drake fan an insight to his life. Whether you see it as depressing or inspirational will be left up to your own better judgement. Nick Drake the musician was obviously a terrorised man, even if his greatest terror was himself. The beginning of the book and the introduction to his early years offers a pleasant surprise and happiness which was present in Nicks life. His time at Malborough College and his first experiences ...
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Advantages: A good overview of a special life Disadvantages: too many tenuous links
...looked life of Bristish Singer/songwriter Nick Drake who tragically died aged just 23 in the mid-seventies.
Since his death Drake has achieved a level of cult popularity on a par with that surrounding Syd Bartrett or Peter Green, and one imagines that a lot of people will have been drawn to the book to try and discover Nick as an icon rather than an artist. While it does satisfy this to some extent, overall Patrick Humphreys trys to avoid writing ... ...father actually delivered the baby Nick into the world, and one suspects from this point onwards that rather a lot is going to be made of this (incidently there isn't another mention of this in the book, much to Humphrey's credit). The rest of the introduction is altogether a most irrelevent and tedious affair - including a rather bizairre few pages in which Humphrey's try's to link the Drake family with the sinking of the titanic! Having finished ...
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Nick Drake was barely 26 years old when he died in 1974. The British singer-songwriter made only three albums during his short life time: "Five Leaves Left", "Bryter Layer" and "Pink Moon". All are now recognized as classics. Since his death, Nick has been cited as a seminal influence by stars as diverse as REM, Elton John, Paul Weller, Jackson Brown, Everything But the Girl, Tom Verlaine and Matt Johnson of The The. This biography includes extensive interviews with friends, colleagues and musicians who knew and worked with Nick. It provides an insight into the life and work of Nick Drake, and also the music scene of the 1960s that formed his backdrop. The author's lifelong appreciations of and interest in Nick Drake were further fuelled when he discovered that his uncle Dr James Lusk actually delivered Nick into the world and remained a friend of the Drake family. In the book, he draws on a long letter from Nick's father to Dr Lusk, in which he describes how Nick's mother, discovered Nick's body during the morning of 25 November 1974, following an accidental overdose of prescribed drugs.
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