๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ - ๐๐๐๐ง ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐จ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ (๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ข๐จ)
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๐ฅ๐จ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ต๐ฐ๐ช๐ฒ ๐ซ๐น๐จ๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐. ๐พ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฅ
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| Photo credits: Nick Drake - unknown, Brian Molko - Andy Willsher; Placeboworld IG / edit by Olga |
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⭐️๐ต๐ฐ๐ช๐ฒ ๐ซ๐น๐จ๐ฒ๐ฌ, in full ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐น๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐๐, (born June 19, 1948, Rangoon [now Yangon], Myanmar [Burma] - died November 25, 1974, Tanworth-in-Arden, England), is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for emotive vocals, sombre lyrics, and rich melodies. Drake never achieved widespread recognition when he was alive but inspired a cult following in the decades following his death.
▪️Drake was raised principally in the English village of Tanworth-in-Arden and played the saxophone and clarinet in school. He took up the guitar at age 16 and began writing songs two years later.
▪️Part of Drake's failure to attract a mass audience was attributable to his almost pathological reluctance to perform live. However, it was at a live show in Cambridge, that a member of Fairport Convention saw Drake perform, and recommended the singer to producer Joe Boyd. Boyd asked Drake for a tape, and was impressed enough to give the 20-year-old a contract in 1968.
▪️Drake's debut, ๐ญ๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐ (1969), was the first in a series of three equally impressive albums. Drake created a vaguely mysterious, haunting atmosphere, occasionally embellished by tasteful Baroque strings. His melancholic lyrics were blended with the gorgeous, uplifting melodies and Drake's calm vocals.
▪️๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐๐ (1970) was his most upbeat effort, featuring traces of jazz in the arrangements.
By 1970, Drake, had given up performing live entirely.
▪️Neither album sold well, and Drake, already a brooding loner, fell into serious depression that often found him unable to make music, work, or even walk and talk. He managed to produce one final full-length work, ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐ (1972), a desolate solo acoustic album that ranks as one of the most naked and bleak statements in all of rock. He did record a few more songs before his death, but no more albums were completed, although the final sessions (along with some other fine unreleased material) surfaced on the posthumous compilation ๐ป๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ต๐ ๐น๐๐๐๐.
▪️Drake's final couple of years were marked by increasing psychiatric difficulties, and in late 1974 he died at his parents’ home from an overdose of antidepressant medication. Whether his death was an accident or suicide has not been resolved.
▪️The 1979 release of the retrospective album ๐ญ๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐ allowed Drake's back catalogue to be reassessed. By the mid-1980s, Nick was being credited as an influence by such artists as Robert Smith of The Cure and Peter Buck of R.E.M. By the early 1990s, he had come to represent a certain type of "doomed romantic" musician in the UK music press and was frequently cited as an influence by artists including Kate Bush, Paul Weller, Aimee Mann, Beck, Robyn Hitchcock and The Black Crowes. Drake's first biography appeared in 1997, followed in 1998 by the documentary film A Stranger Among Us.
▪️Drake’s music continued to be discovered by new fans and performed by other singers. In the early 21st century his songs began appearing in films and television shows and commercials, bringing a new level of awareness to his music.
▪️Several biographies have been published including ๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐ (๐๐๐๐), a compilation of letters, photographs, and essays collected by Nick Drake’s sister, actress ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐๐.
(๐๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ : ๐ต๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ด๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐)
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| Photo credit: Keith Morris |
Nowadays, when Nick became fetishised, Gabrielle feels herself a guardian of her brother’s legacy trying to keep the story as true as possible.
Now it falls to her to tend Nick’s grave under the beech tree in the churchyard of St Mary Magdalene in Tanworth.
๐ข“We’ve just had the gravestone removed because it’s been rather badly defaced one way and another with people chipping away at it.” […] “Sometimes dead artists need to be protected from their admirers.”
It’s a beautiful book but hard to read because it includes so much hitherto private pain – not just family letters, but Rodney Drake’s diary of his son’s struggle with depression.
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๐ข๐๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ค๐: My brother once said to my mother, ‘If only I could feel that my music had helped anyone at all …’ and I just wish he would have known how many people have said to us over the years how his music had helped them.”
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๐ขBoth parents admired their son’s work, she [๐๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐] says: “In the letters my father says, ‘Take courage, take heart, you’ve really got it. We’ve just played Five Leaves Left [Nick’s debut album] on the stereo and we think it’s beautiful.’”
(๐๐๐ข๐๐๐: ๐โ๐ ๐บ๐ข๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ 15๐กโ, 2014)
⭐️๐ป๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐…
๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ was originally written by ๐น๐๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐, an American songwriter and author, in the last few weeks of 1966. The song was recorded at one of her friends flat in early 1967.
In March 1967 Robin was performing folk song originals and covers with a partner in a cabaret in Aix-en-Provence (France). After one show Nick Drake introduced himself and asked if Frederick would like to get together to play some songs. Among the songs she played for him was an original composition, ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐. She and Drake became friends and Drake asked for the lyrics to the song. He recorded the song on a home demo tape in April or May 1967.
๐๐จ๐๐ข๐ง ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ค: “We spent a few evenings playing songs for each other and one night Nick asked for the lyrics to “Been smoking too long” which I wrote out for him. It’s an easy, bluesy song that seemed to capture the feel of the times. Nick picked up music very quickly. His guitar arrangement is sophisticated and smooth. Years later, when I heard his home recording, I realized he had changed a line. “Got the marijuana blues” became “Got no other life to choose” – a fatalistic turn of phrase that strikes me as very like him“.
The song appeared on the ๐ป๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ต๐ ๐น๐๐๐๐ album as well as the 2007 ๐ญ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐ collection of Drake's home and demo recordings. The song has been covered by several notable artists including Placebo, Graham Coxon, Alison Faith Levy, Steve Balbi and Hederos & Hellberg.
(๐๐๐ข๐๐๐: ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐)
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| Photo credits: unknown, Renaud Monfourny, edit by Silke |
In 2011, the song was included into the ๐-๐๐ข๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐ compilation.
⭐️๐จ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐…
Early 2022, Rolling Stone magazine published an article where it is suggested that we’ve possibly got a footage of Nick Drake.
๐๐ข๐๐ค ๐๐ซ๐๐ค๐ ๐๐’๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฅ
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Nick Drake remains one of the most mysterious, the most ethereal artists.
“The reason why is simple: There isn’t a lot of physical evidence left that Drake was a real person. You can go to England and visit his hometown village, Tanworth-in-Arden, pay respects at his grave and stand for a picture in front of his home. But you won’t find a museum there with the laced-up shoes from the cover of Bryter Layter, or his striped poncho in a climate-controlled case. You can read his sister Gabrielle’s 2014 biography Remembered for a While, but only a handful of known photos of Nick Drake exist on the internet. There’s also not a single video of him performing live, or any footage to demonstrate his existence at all — except for one clip. Maybe.
[…] The awful quality of the clip only adds to the mystique, as a blurry man walks with his back towards the camera at an outdoor festival. That’s it. It’s only 12 seconds long, and there’s no proof it’s actually him. […] There’s … an investigation, expertly breaking down the video and pointing out why it could be him: He indeed owned the red velvet blazer the figure is wearing in the video, and Gabrielle’s biography mentions that he played the Krumlin Festival in Yorkshire in August of 1970.”
(๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐, ๐น๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ฆ 25๐กโ, 2022)
You can read the full article here:
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๐ฌDear soulmates, I’d really like to know what you think of Nick Drake and his music.
I came across the comment, which I actually loved, that stated Nick was “๐ฝ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐”. What do you say?
๐And of course, I can’t not mention a post that once appeared on (now deleted) ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ/๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง’๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ with a picture of Nick Drake’s ๐ญ๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐ vinyl record (included into the collage below)๐
"SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND....OLD RECORDS, NEW TOYS."
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