Page dedicated to everything Nick Drake

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[danielcash]

Another photo of me with the Nick Drake blanket I recreated

[op5tip4o5pot5-deactivated202012]

Nick Drake, lápis de cor

[codemov]

Brad Mehldau - Things Behind the Sun

[wildeanwithoutaclue]

i think most of the time we forget that he was just a kid

he had written most songs from five leaves left (including fruit tree) before he turned twenty or twenty one, and he was only 23 when he recorded pink moon

in the recordings of his last five songs he sounds much older than his 26 years

but he *was* a kid

[loveandpoison]

Was walking today in Rough Trade East with elides, talking about Nick Drake and that same moment I saw a whole wall full of huge photos of him. Went, I think more or less mid-sentence, all *flaily hands* “oh my god” :D (and then later on one of his songs was playing in a cafe we were in… such coincidences!)

[penultimatepretension]

In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared. We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.

- Alan Lightman (Einstein’s Dreams)

[iafeh]

Nick Drake - authorized biography just published 40 years after his death

[nick-drake]

Yes! I finally found this blog! Thank you for having such an awesome Nick Drake blog. I've been waiting a while for this.

Thanks! Sorry it isn't very active anymore, I'm a full time student and I work, so Tumble-time is difficult to come across.

(Is that a thing? Tumble-time? You tumble on tumblr so it's tumble-time, right? I think...)

[nick-drake]

Hello there, does anybody know where his Guild F-20 is?

Not sure, maybe else can help enlighten? Keep in mind that there is also some controversy over whether it was a Guild F-20 or M-20, since they were both very similar.

[nancykells]

Nick Drake: Remembered for a While,’ the first book about the storied singer-songwriter to be authorised by his estate, will be published by John Murray on November 6. Its appearance comes just before the 40th anniversary (Nov. 25) of Drake’s death at 26, from an overdose of a prescribed antidepressant.

Further to our news earlier this week about the auction of an early Drake tape being postponed, the book will be available in a deluxe edition with five other previously unreleased recordings, taken from a John Peel session for BBC Radio 1 in 1969 that was thought lost.

The book has been compiled and edited over a period of six years by Nick’s sister, the actress Gabrielle Drake. There will be a standard hardback edition, but the deluxe, 380-page boxed version will house a 10-inch vinyl disc featuring the five session performances of signature Drake songs ‘Time of No Reply,’ ‘River Man,’ ‘Three Hours,’ ‘Bryter Layter’ and ‘Cello Song.’ It also features a portfolio with three photographs of Nick taken in 1967 by Julian Lloyd, each numbered with a certificate of authentication signed by the photographer.

Cally Callomon, who is head of the Drake estate, says the tracks “show Nick at his most intimate and unembellished. It’s as close as you’ll ever get to being in a room alone with Nick’s songs.” The book will also include extracts from the musician’s letters to his parents and handwritten lyrics, some of them for songs of his that have never come to light. Each copy of the deluxe version is signed by Gabrielle Drake and Cally Callomon. Nick’s arranger Robert Kirby and producer Joe Boyd also contribute to the book.

“Nick is evanescent, yet ever present to me,” adds his sister. “Inextricably woven into the fabric of my life, yet rarely appearing in sharp focus – except in his music. Listening to it, I am still overwhelmed by the immediacy of his presence: by melancholy and delight, by amusement (because Nick could be very funny), by bafflement and grief, by love.”

You can pre-order your copy here and see more about the elegant volume below.

via http://www.udiscovermusic.com

[under-radar-mag]

Nick Drake’s family have put together a new book that will be the first authorized biography on the enigmatic and influential singer/songwriter. Nick Drake: Remembered For A While will be out this November (preorders can be placed here) and the Signature Boxed Edition will feature handwritten lyrics, photos, and most interestingly, a 10” vinyl record containing a previously unreleased John Peel Session from 1969. The collector’s set and book were compiled by Drake’s sister Gabrielle.

(via Authorized Nick Drake Biography With Unreleased Music Out This Fall | Under the Radar - Music Magazine)

[ennish-deactivated20170305]

Rare, Unheard Nick Drake Tapes Going Up for Auction

[nick-drake]

Six pristine late Sixties recordings expected to sell more than $400,000.

[samuelmorrissey]

Happy birthday Nick Drake

[nick-drake]

Thank for this blog. Nick Drake is such an inspiration and I am so glad I found this.

Glad you enjoy it!

[nick-drake]

any idea how to track down Jullian Lloyd to request rights to his photographs for inclusion into a documentary we are doing?

I'm afraid I don't know. There isn't much about him available on the internet at all. Depending on the type of documentary (and photographer's rights in your country, along with copyright rights), you could possibly be able to include the photographs with credit to him and that would be sufficient. But I'm not an expert on this by any means. -E

[leeiro-deactivated20141227]

The High Llamas - Chime of a City Clock

[fargunkel-deactivated20140105]

Nick was in some strange way out of time. When you were with him, you always had a sad feeling of him being born in the wrong century. If he would have lived in the 17th Century, at the Elizabethan Court, together with composers like Dowland or William Byrd, he would have been alright. Nick was elegant, honest, a lost romantic - and at the same time so cool. In brief; the perfect Elizabethan.

Robert Kirby