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Nick Drake The Complete Guide

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Contents Articles Overview Nick Drake

Studio albums

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Five Leaves Left

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Bryter Layter

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Pink Moon

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Compilations

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Nick Drake

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Fruit Tree

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Heaven in a Wild Flower

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Time of No Reply

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Way to Blue

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Made in Love Magic

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A Treasury

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Family Tree

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Tribute albums

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Brittle Days

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Second Grace

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Singles

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"Northern Sky"

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"Magic"

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"River Man"

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Other songs

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"Pink Moon"

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Related topics

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Discography

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Joe Boyd

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Gabrielle Drake

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Robert Kirby

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John Wood

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References Article Sources and Contributors

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Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors

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Article Licenses License

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Overview Nick Drake Nick Drake

Nick Drake in 1971 Background information Birth name

Nicholas Rodney Drake

Born

19 June 1948 Rangoon, Burma

Died

25 November 1974 (aged 26) Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire, England

Genres

Folk, folk rock

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Instruments Vocals, guitar, piano, clarinet, saxophone Years active 1967–1974 Labels

Island

Website

brytermusic.com

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Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician, known for his gentle guitar-based songs. He failed to find a wide audience during his lifetime but his work has gradually achieved wider notice and recognition.[3][4][5] Drake signed to Island Records when he was 20 years old and a student at the University of Cambridge, and released his debut album, Five Leaves Left, in 1969. By 1972, he had recorded two more albums—Bryter Layter and Pink Moon. Neither sold more than 5,000 copies on initial release.[6] Drake's reluctance to perform live, or be interviewed, contributed to his lack of commercial success. Drake suffered from depression, particularly during the latter part of his young life. This was often reflected in his lyrics. On completion of his third album, 1972's Pink Moon, he withdrew from both live performance and recording, retreating to his parents' home in rural Warwickshire. There is no known footage of the adult Drake; he was only

Nick Drake ever captured in still photographs and in home footage from his childhood.[7] On 25 November 1974, Drake died from an overdose of amitriptyline, a prescribed antidepressant; he was 26 years old. Whether his death was an accident or suicide has never been resolved. Drake's music remained available through the mid-1970s, but the 1979 release of the retrospective album Fruit Tree allowed his back catalogue to be reassessed. By the mid-1980s Drake was being credited as an influence by such artists as Robert Smith, David Sylvian and Peter Buck. In 1985, The Dream Academy reached the UK and US charts with "Life in a Northern Town", a song written for and dedicated to Drake.[8] 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, Beck and The Black Crowes.[9] His first biography appeared in 1997, and was followed in 1998 by the documentary film A Stranger Among Us.

Early life Nick's father, Rodney Drake (1908–1988), had moved to Rangoon, Burma, in the early 1930s to work as an engineer with the Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation.[10] There, in 1934, his father met the daughter of a senior member of the Indian Civil Service, Mary Lloyd (1916–1993), known to her family as "Molly". Rodney Drake proposed to her in 1936, though they had to wait a year until she turned 21 before her family allowed them to marry.[11] In 1950, they returned to Warwickshire[12] to live in the country, at a house named Far Leys, in the village of Tanworth-in-Arden just south of Solihull. Nick Drake had an older sister, Gabrielle who became a successful film and television actress. Both parents were musically inclined and each wrote pieces of music. Recordings of Molly Drake's songs, which have come to light since her death, are remarkably similar in tone and outlook to the later work of her son.[13] Mother and son shared a similar fragile vocal delivery and both Gabrielle and biographer Trevor Dann have noted a parallel sense of foreboding and fatalism in their music.[13][14] Encouraged by his mother, Drake learned to play piano at an early age and began to compose songs which he recorded on a reel-to-reel tape recorder she kept in the family drawing room.[5] In 1957, Drake was enrolled at Eagle House School, a preparatory boarding school in Berkshire. Five years later, he went to Marlborough College, a public school in Wiltshire, where his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had all attended. He developed an interest in sport, becoming an accomplished sprinter (his record for the 100-yard dash still stands)[15] and captain of the school's rugby team for a time. He was also Head of House in C1, the college's largest house. School friends recall Drake at this time as having been confident and "quietly authoritative", while often aloof in his manner.[16] His father Rodney remembered, "In one of his reports [the headmaster] said that none of us seemed to know him very well. All the way through with Nick. People didn't know him very much."[17] Drake played piano in the school orchestra, and learned clarinet and saxophone. He formed a band, The Perfumed Gardeners, with four schoolmates in 1964 or 1965. With Drake on piano and occasional alto sax and vocals, the group performed Pye International R&B covers and jazz standards, as well as Yardbirds and Manfred Mann numbers. Chris de Burgh asked to join the band, but was rejected as his taste was seen as "too poppy" by the other members.[18] Drake's academic performance began to deteriorate, and while he had accelerated a year in Eagle House, at Marlborough he began to neglect his studies in favour of music. He attained seven GCE O-Levels in 1963, fewer than his teachers had been expecting, and he failed "Physics with Chemistry".[19] In 1965, Drake paid £13 for his first acoustic guitar, and was soon experimenting with open tuning and finger-picking techniques.[15] In 1966, Drake won a scholarship to study English literature at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge. He delayed attendance to spend six months at the University of Aix-Marseille, France, beginning in February 1967. While in Aix, he began to practice guitar in earnest, and to earn money would often busk with friends in the town centre. Drake began to smoke cannabis, and that spring he travelled with friends to Morocco, because, according to travelling companion Richard Charkin, "that was where you got the best pot".[20] Drake most likely began using LSD while in Aix,[21] and lyrics written during this period—in particular for the song "Clothes of Sand"—are suggestive of an interest in hallucinogens.[22]

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Cambridge On returning to England, Drake moved into his sister's flat in Hampstead, London, before enrolling at Cambridge University that October. His tutors found him to be a bright student, but unenthusiastic and unwilling to apply himself to study.[23] Dann notes that he had difficulty connecting with staff and fellow students alike, and points out that official matriculation photographs from this time reveal a sullen and unimpressed young man.[24] Cambridge placed much emphasis on its rugby and cricket teams, yet by this time Drake had lost interest in playing sport, preferring to stay in his college room smoking marijuana, and listening to and playing music. According to fellow student (now psychiatrist) Brian Wells: "they were the rugger buggers and we were the cool people smoking dope."[24] In September 1967, he met Robert Kirby, a music student who went on to orchestrate many of the string and woodwind arrangements for Drake's first two albums.[25] By this time, Drake had discovered the British and American folk music scenes, and was influenced by performers such as Bob Dylan, Josh White and Phil Ochs. He began performing in local clubs and coffee houses around London, and in February 1968, while playing support to Country Joe and the Fish at the Roundhouse in Camden Town, made an impression on Ashley Hutchings, bass player with Fairport Convention.[26] Hutchings recalls being impressed by Drake's skill as a guitarist, but even more so by "the image. He looked like a star. He looked wonderful, he seemed to be 7 ft."[17] Hutchings introduced Drake to the 25-year-old American producer Joe Boyd, owner of the production and management company Witchseason Productions. The company was, at the time, licensed to Island Records,[27] and Boyd, the man who had discovered Fairport Convention and been responsible for introducing John Martyn and The Incredible String Band to a mainstream audience, was a significant and respected figure on the UK folk scene.[17] He and Drake formed an immediate bond, and the producer acted as a mentor to Drake throughout his career. A four-track demo, recorded in Drake's college room in the spring of 1968, led Boyd to offer a management, publishing, and production contract to the 20-year-old, and to initiate work on a debut album. According to Boyd: In those days you didn't have cassettes—he brought a reel-to-reel tape [to me] that he'd done at home. Half way through the first song, I felt this was pretty special. And I called him up, and he came back in, and we talked, and I just said, "I'd like to make a record." He stammered, "Oh, well, yeah. Okay." Nick was a man of few words.[17] In a 2004 interview, Drake's friend Paul Wheeler remembered the excitement caused by his seeming big break, and recalled that the singer had already decided not to complete his third year at Cambridge.[17]

Career Five Leaves Left Drake began recording his debut album Five Leaves Left later in 1968, with Boyd assuming the role of producer. The sessions took place in Sound Techniques studio, London, with Drake skipping lectures to travel by train to the capital. Inspired by John Simon's production of Leonard Cohen's first album, Boyd was keen that Drake's voice would be recorded in a similar close and intimate style, "with no shiny pop reverb".[28] He sought to include a string arrangement similar to Simon's, "without overwhelming ... or sounding cheesy".[28] To provide backing, Boyd enlisted various contacts from the London folk rock scene, including Fairport Convention guitarist Richard Thompson and Pentangle bassist Danny Thompson (no relation).[29] He recruited John Wood as engineer, and drafted Richard Hewson in to provide the string arrangements. Initial recordings did not go well: the sessions were irregular and rushed, taking place during studio downtime borrowed from Fairport Convention's production of their Unhalfbricking album. Tension arose between artist and producer as to the direction the album should take: Boyd was an advocate of George Martin's "using the studio as an instrument" approach, while Drake preferred a more organic sound. Dann has observed that Drake appears "tight and anxious" on bootleg recordings taken from the sessions, and notes a number of Boyd's unsuccessful attempts at instrumentation.[30] Both were unhappy with Hewson's contribution, which they felt was too mainstream in sound

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for Drake's songs.[31] Drake suggested using his college friend Robert Kirby as a replacement. Though Boyd was skeptical about taking on an amateur music student lacking prior recording experience, he was impressed by Drake's uncharacteristic assertiveness, and agreed to a trial.[32] Kirby had previously presented Drake with some arrangements for his songs.[27] However, Kirby did not feel confident enough to score the album's centerpiece "River Man", and Boyd was forced to stretch the Witchseason budget to hire the veteran composer Harry Robertson, with the instruction that he echo the tone of Delius and Ravel. "River Man" "River Man" is noted for its 5/4 time, harmonic changes and use of prosody. An early solo acoustic version recorded in [33] Drake's Cambridge college bedroom appears on the 2004 compilation Made To Love Magic.

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Post-production difficulties led to the release being delayed by several months. It has been alleged that the album was poorly marketed and supported,[34] though the inclusion of the opening track "Time Has Told Me" on the Island Records sampler Nice Enough to Eat brought him a very wide audience (a track from his second album was likewise included on the subsequent sampler Bumpers). Drake was featured in full-page interviews in the pop press. In July, Melody Maker referred to the album as "poetic" and "interesting", though NME wrote in October that there was "not nearly enough variety to make it entertaining".[35] It received radio plays from the BBC's more progressive disc-jockeys such as John Peel[36] and Bob Harris. Drake was unhappy with the inlay sleeve, which printed songs in the wrong running order and reproduced verses omitted from the recorded versions.[37] In an interview his sister Gabrielle said: "He was very secretive. I knew he was making an album but I didn't know what stage of completion it was at until he walked into my room and said, 'There you are.' He threw it onto the bed and walked out!"[27]

Bryter Layter Drake ended his studies at Cambridge nine months before graduation, and in autumn 1969 moved to London to concentrate on a career in music.[38] His father remembered "writing him long letters, pointing out the disadvantages of going away from Cambridge ... a degree was a safety net, if you manage to get a degree, at least you have something to fall back on; his reply to that was that a safety net was the one thing he did not want."[13] Drake spent his first few months in the capital drifting from place to place, occasionally staying at his sister's Kensington flat, but usually sleeping on friends’ sofas and floors.[39] Eventually, in an attempt to bring some stability and a telephone into Drake's life, Boyd organised and paid for a ground floor bedsit in Belsize Park, Camden.[40] In August, Drake recorded three songs for the BBC's John Peel show. Two months later, he opened for Fairport Convention at the Royal Festival Hall in London, followed by appearances at folk clubs in Birmingham and Hull. Remembering the performance in Hull, folk singer Michael Chapman commented: The folkies did not take to him; [they] wanted songs with choruses. They completely missed the point. He didn't say a word the entire evening. It was actually quite painful to watch. I don't know what the audience expected, I mean, they must have known they weren't going to get sea-shanties and sing-alongs at a Nick Drake gig![26] The experience reinforced Drake's decision to retreat from live appearances; the few concerts he did play around this time were usually brief, awkward, and poorly attended. Drake seemed reluctant to perform and rarely addressed his audience. As many of his songs were played in different tunings, he frequently paused to retune between numbers.[41]

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5 "Northern Sky" "Northern Sky" features piano, organ and celesta performed by John Cale. Drake was reportedly in awe of Cale's musical ability.

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Although the publicity generated by Five Leaves Left was minor, Boyd was keen to build on what momentum there was. 1970's Bryter Layter, again produced by Boyd and engineered by Wood, introduced a more upbeat,[42] jazzier[43] sound. Disappointed by his debut's poor commercial performance, Drake sought to move away from his pastoral sound, and agreed to his producer's suggestions to include bass and drum tracks on the recordings. "It was more of a pop sound, I suppose," Boyd later said. "I imagined it as more commercial."[44] Like its predecessor, the album featured musicians from Fairport Convention, as well as contributions from John Cale on two songs: "Northern Sky" and "Fly". Trevor Dann has noted that while sections of "Northern Sky" sound more characteristic of Cale, the song was the closest Drake came to a release with chart potential.[45] In his 1999 autobiography, Cale admits to using heroin during this period,[46] and his older friend Brian Wells suspected that Drake was also using.[47] Both Boyd and Wood were confident that the album would be a commercial success,[48] but it sold fewer than 3,000 copies. Reviews were again mixed: while Record Mirror praised Drake as a "beautiful guitarist—clean and with perfect timing, [and] accompanied by soft, beautiful arrangements", Melody Maker described the album as "an awkward mix of folk and cocktail jazz".[41] Soon after its release, Boyd sold Witchseason to Island Records, and moved to Los Angeles to work with Warner Brothers in the development of soundtracks for film. The loss of his key mentor, coupled with the album's poor sales, led Drake to further retreat into depression. His attitude to London had changed: he was unhappy living alone, and visibly nervous and uncomfortable performing at a series of concerts in early 1970. In June, Drake gave one of his final live appearances at Ewell Technical College, Surrey. Ralph McTell, who also performed that night, remembered that "Nick was monosyllabic. At that particular gig he was very shy. He did the first set and something awful must have happened. He was doing his song 'Fruit Tree' and walked off halfway through it. Just left the stage."[49] His frustration turned to depression,[50] and in 1971 Drake was persuaded by his family to visit a psychiatrist at St Thomas's Hospital, London. He was prescribed a course of antidepressants, but felt uncomfortable and embarrassed about taking them, and tried to hide the fact from his friends.[51] He knew enough about drugs to worry about their side effects, and was concerned about how they would react with his regular marijuana use.[52]

Pink Moon Island Records was keen for Drake promote Bryter Layter through press interviews, radio sessions and live appearances. Drake, who by this time was smoking what Kirby has described as "unbelievable amounts" of marijuana[53] and exhibiting "the first signs of psychosis", refused. By the winter of 1970, he had isolated himself in London.[38] Disappointed by the reaction to Bryter Layter, he turned his thoughts inwards, and withdrew from family and friends. He rarely left his flat, and then only to play an occasional concert or to buy drugs. "This was a very bad time", his sister recalled, "He once said to me that everything started to go wrong from [this] time on, and I think that was when things started to go wrong."[54] Although Island neither expected nor wanted a third album,[55] Drake approached Wood in October 1971 to begin work on what would be his final release. Sessions took place over two nights, with only Drake and Wood present in the studio.[5] The bleak songs of Pink Moon are short, and the eleven-track album lasts only 28 minutes, a length described by Wood as "just about right. You really wouldn't want it to be any longer."[17] Drake had expressed dissatisfaction with the sound of Bryter Layter, and believed that the string, brass and saxophone arrangements had resulted in a sound that was "too full, too elaborate".[56] Drake appears on Pink Moon accompanied only by his own carefully recorded guitar save for a single piano overdub on the title track. "He was very determined to make this

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very stark, bare record," Wood later recalled. "He definitely wanted it to be him more than anything. And I think, in some ways, Pink Moon is probably more like Nick is than the other two records."[57] "Pink Moon" [58]

The piano overdub on "Pink Moon" displays a musicality absent from some of the barer tracks on Drake's final album.

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Drake delivered the tapes of Pink Moon to Chris Blackwell at Island Records, contrary to a popular legend which claims he dropped them off at the receptionist's desk without saying a word.[59] An advertisement for the album in Melody Maker in February opened with "Pink Moon—Nick Drake's latest album: the first we heard of it was when it was finished."[60] Pink Moon sold fewer copies than either of its predecessors, although it receieved some favourable reviews. In Zigzag magazine, Connor McKnight wrote, "Nick Drake is an artist who never fakes. The album makes no concession to the theory that music should be escapist. It's simply one musician's view of life at the time, and you can't ask for more than that."[61] Blackwell felt Pink Moon had the potential to bring Drake to a mainstream audience; however, his staff were disappointed by the artist's unwillingness to undertake any promotional activity. A&R manager Muff Winwood recalls "tearing his hair out" in frustration, and admits that without Blackwell's enthusiastic support, "the rest of us would have given him the boot."[62] Following persistent nagging from Boyd, Drake agreed to an interview with Jerry Gilbert of Sounds Magazine.[63] The "shy and introverted folk singer" spoke of his dislike of live appearances and very little else.[64] "There wasn't any connection whatsoever", Gilbert has said. "I don't think he made eye contact with me once."[64] Disheartened and convinced he would be unable to write again, Drake decided to retire from music. He toyed with the idea of a different career, even considering the army.[65]

Final years In the months following Pink Moon's release, Drake became increasingly asocial and distant from those close to him.[66] He returned to live at his parents' home in Tanworth-in-Arden, and while he resented the regression, he accepted that his illness made it necessary. "I don't like it at home", he told his mother, "but I can't bear it anywhere else."[13] His return was often difficult for his family; as his sister Gabrielle explained, "good days in my parents' home were good days for Nick, and bad days were bad days for Nick. And that was what their life revolved around, really."[17] "Black Eyed Dog" "Black Eyed Dog" from one of Drake's final recording sessions in February 1974. The title was inspired by Winston [67] Churchill's description, taken from Samuel Johnson, of depression as a black dog.

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He lived a frugal existence, his only source of income being a £20-a-week retainer he received from Island Records. At one point he could not afford a new pair of shoes.[68] He would often disappear for days, sometimes turning up unannounced at friends' houses, uncommunicative and withdrawn. Robert Kirby described a typical visit: "He would arrive and not talk, sit down, listen to music, have a smoke, have a drink, sleep there the night, and two or three days later he wasn't there, he'd be gone. And three months later he'd be back."[69]

Nick Drake Referring to this period, John Martyn (who in 1973 wrote the title song of his album Solid Air for and about Drake) described him as the most withdrawn person he'd ever met.[70] He would borrow his mother's car and drive for hours without purpose on occasion, until he ran out of petrol and had to ring his parents to ask to be collected. Friends have recalled the extent to which his appearance had changed.[71] During particularly bleak periods of his illness, he refused to wash his hair or cut his nails.[65] Early in 1972, Drake suffered a nervous breakdown, and was hospitalized for five weeks.[47] In February 1974, Drake contacted John Wood, stating he was ready to begin work on a fourth album.[72] Boyd was in England at the time, and agreed to attend the recordings. The initial session was followed by further recordings in July. In his 2006 autobiography, the producer recalled being taken aback at Drake's anger and bitterness: "[He said that] I had told him he was a genius, and others had concurred. Why wasn't he famous and rich? This rage must have festered beneath that inexpressive exterior for years."[73] Both Boyd and Wood noticed a discernible deterioration in Drake's performance, requiring him to overdub his voice separately over the guitar. However, the return to Sound Techniques' studio raised Drake's spirits; his mother later recalled, "We were so absolutely thrilled to think that Nick was happy because there hadn't been any happiness in Nick's life for years."[47]

Death By autumn 1974, Drake's weekly retainer from Island had ceased, and his illness meant he remained in contact with only a few close friends. He had tried to stay in touch with Sophia Ryde, whom he had first met in London in 1968.[75] Ryde has been described by Drake's biographers as "the nearest thing" to a girlfriend in his life, but she now prefers the description "best (girl) friend".[76] In a 2005 interview, Ryde revealed that a week before he died, she had sought to end the relationship: "I couldn't cope with it. I asked him for some time. And I never saw him again."[77] As with the relationship he had earlier shared with fellow folk musician Linda Thompson, Drake's relationship with Ryde was never consummated.[77] At some time during the night of 24/25 November 1974, Nick Drake died at Drake's gravestone is inscribed with home in Far Leys, Tanworth-in-Arden, from an overdose of amitriptyline, a type the epitaph 'Now we rise / And we of antidepressant. He had gone to bed early after spending the afternoon visiting are everywhere', taken from "From a friend. His mother said that around dawn he left his room for the kitchen. His the Morning," the final song on his [74] family was used to hearing him do this many times before but, during this final album, Pink Moon. instance, he did not make a sound. They presumed he was eating a bowl of cereal. He returned to his room a short while later, and took some pills "to help him sleep".[78] Drake was accustomed to keeping his own hours; he frequently had difficulty sleeping and often stayed up through the night playing and listening to music, then sleep late into the following morning. Recalling the events of the night, his mother later said: "I never used to disturb him at all. But it was about 12 o'clock, and I went in, because really it seemed it was time he got up. And he was lying across the bed. The first thing I saw was his long, long legs."[79] There was no suicide note, although a letter addressed to Ryde was found close to his bed.[80] At the inquest in December, the coroner stated that the cause of death was as a result of "Acute amitriptyline poisoning—self-administered when suffering from a depressive illness", and concluded a verdict of suicide. The verdict has been disputed by some members of his family,[3] there is a general view that accidental or not, Drake had by then given up on life.[41] Rodney described his son's death as unexpected and extraordinary; however, in a 1979 interview he admitted to "always [being] worried about Nick being so depressed. We used to hide away the aspirin and pills and things like that."[77] Boyd has said that he prefers to believe the overdose was accidental. He recalled that Drake's parents had described his mood in the preceding weeks as having been very positive, and that he had planned to move back to London to restart his music career. Boyd believes that this levity was followed by a "crash

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Nick Drake back into despair". Reasoning that Drake may have taken a high dosage of antidepressants to recapture this sense of optimism, he said he prefers to imagine Drake "making a desperate lunge for life rather than a calculated surrender to death".[81] Writing in 1975, NME journalist Nick Kent comments on the irony of Drake's death at a time when he had just begun to regain a sense of "personal balance".[68] In contrast, Gabrielle Drake has said she prefers to think her brother committed suicide, "in the sense that I'd rather he died because he wanted to end it than it to be the result of a tragic mistake. That would seem to me to be terrible."[77] On 2 December 1974, after a service in the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Tanworth-in-Arden, Drake's remains were cremated at Solihull Crematorium and his ashes later interred under an oak tree in the graveyard of St Mary's.[82] The funeral was attended by around 50 mourners, including friends from Marlborough, Aix, Cambridge, London, Witchseason, and Tanworth.[83] Referring to Drake's tendency to compartmentalise relationships, Brian Wells observed that many met each other for the first time that morning.[84] Molly recalled "a lot of his young friends came up here. We'd never met many of them."[83]

Posthumous popularity During the early Eighties, I drifted away from the music scene. When I returned, I was surprised to find that Nick Drake was becoming famous. —Ian MacDonald[5] There were no documentaries or compilation albums in the wake of Drake's death.[85] His public profile remained low throughout the mid and late 1970s, although occasional mentions of his name appeared in the music press. By this time, his parents were receiving an increasing number of fans and admirers as visitors to the family home in Far Leys. Island Records, following a 1975 NME article written by Nick Kent, stated "we have no intention of repackaging Nick's three albums (which remained available), either now or at anytime in the foreseeable future",[86] but in 1979 Rob Partridge joined Island Records as press officer and commissioned the release of the Fruit Tree box set. Partridge was a fan of Drake's, and had seen him perform early in 1969: "The first thing I did when I got to Island was suggest we put together a retrospective—the studio albums plus whatever else was there. I wasn't necessarily expecting massive vaults with millions of tunes, live recordings or whatever, but there was very little". The release brought together the three studio albums as well as the four tracks recorded with Wood in 1974 and was accompanied by an extensive biography written by the American journalist Arthur Lubow. However, sales were poor and the album received little press notice, and in 1983 Island deleted Fruit Tree from its catalogue.[15] By the mid-1980s Drake was being cited as an influence by musicians such as R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and Robert Smith of The Cure. Smith credited the origin of his band's name to a lyric from Drake's song "Time Has Told Me" ("a troubled cure for a troubled mind").[87] Drake gained further exposure in 1985 with the release of The Dream Academy's hit single "Life in a Northern Town", which included an on-sleeve dedication to Drake.[88] In 1986 the first biography of Drake was published, in Danish[89]—it was eventually translated, updated with new interviews, and published in English in February 2012. His reputation continued to grow, and by the end of the 1980s, his name was appearing regularly in newspapers and music magazines in the United Kingdom;[90] he had to many come to represent a "doomed romantic hero",[91] and an "enigma wrapped inside a mystery".[38] The first step in translating that reputation into record sales came with the release of the compilation album Way to Blue: An Introduction to Nick Drake in May 1994. Although the album never charted in the UK, it sold consistently over the next few years, gaining a gold disc certification in September 1999 for sales of 100,000 copies in the UK.[92] On 20 June 1998 BBC Radio 2 broadcast a documentary entitled Fruit Tree: The Nick Drake Story, featuring interviews with Joe Boyd, John Wood, Gabrielle and Molly Drake, Paul Wheeler, Robert Kirby and Ashley Hutchings, and narrated by Danny Thompson.[93] To tie in with the release of the compilation album Made to Love Magic, an updated version of the documentary was broadcast on 22 May 2004 on Radio 2, retitled Lost Boy: In Search of Nick Drake and featuring the same interview clips but with Thompson's narration replaced by that of Brad Pitt, a self-confessed Nick Drake fan.[][] In early 1999, BBC2 aired a 40-minute documentary, A Stranger Among

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Nick Drake Us—In Search of Nick Drake. The following year, Dutch director Jeroen Berkvens released the documentary A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake, featuring interviews with Boyd, Gabrielle Drake, Wood and Kirby. Later that year, The Guardian placed Bryter Layter at number 1 in its "Alternative top 100 albums ever" list.[70] In 1999, "Pink Moon" was used in "Milky Way", a Volkswagen Cabrio commercial, leading to a large increase in record sales.[][94] The US telecommunications company AT&T used "From the Morning" in one of their advertisements as part of their "Rethink Possible" campaign in North America in 2010.[] In recent years several musicians, including Lucinda Williams, Ben Folds,[95] Badly Drawn Boy, Lou Barlow and Mikael Åkerfeldt have cited Drake as an influence. In 2004, nearly 30 years after his death, Drake gained his first chart placing when two singles, "Magic" and "River Man", were released to coincide with the Made to Love Magic album. On 16 May 2009 Joe Boyd curated a concert at the Birmingham Town Hall, with Robert Kirby as musical arranger and a variety of singers and musicians performing Drake's songs. Among the featured artists were Robyn Hitchcock, Camille O'Sullivan, Martha Wainwright, Graham Coxon, Beth Orton, Harper Simon, Kate St John, Stuart Murdoch and Vashti Bunyan.[96] Following this concert's success, Boyd staged a short concert tour of the UK in January 2010, following the same format: artists on the tour included Vashti Bunyan, Green Gartside, Lisa Hannigan, Scott Matthews, Teddy Thompson, Krystle Warren, Robyn Hitchcock, Kirsty Almeida and Harper Simon. The concert at the London Barbican Centre was filmed and broadcast on BBC Four in April 2010.[97]

Musical and lyrical style Drake was obsessive about practising his guitar technique, and would often stay up through the night experimenting with tunings and working on songs. His mother remembered hearing him "bumping around at all hours. I think he wrote his nicest melodies in the early-morning hours."[15] Self-taught,[48] he achieved his guitar style through the use of alternative tunings to create cluster chords.[98] These are difficult to achieve on a guitar using standard tuning; Drake used tunings which made cluster chords available using more conventional chord shapes. In many songs he accents the dissonant effect of such non-standard tunings through his vocal melodies.[98] Drake studied English literature at Cambridge and was particularly drawn to the works of William Blake, William Butler Yeats and Henry Vaughan, and his lyrics reflect such influences.[5] Drake also employs a series of elemental[99] symbols and codes, largely drawn from nature. The moon, stars, sea, rain, trees, sky, mist and seasons are all commonly used, influenced in part by his rural upbringing.[5] Images related to summer figure centrally in his early work; from Bryter Layter on, his language is more autumnal, evoking a season commonly used to convey senses of loss and sorrow.[5] Throughout, Drake writes with detachment, more as an observer than participant, a point of view Rolling Stone's Anthony DeCurtis described "as if he were viewing his life from a great, unbridgeable distance."[99] This perceived inability to connect has led to much speculation about Drake's sexuality.[100] Boyd has said he detects a virginal quality in his lyrics and music, and notes that he never observed or heard of the singer behaving in a sexual way with anyone, male or female.[101] Kirby described Drake's lyrics as a "series of extremely vivid, complete observations, almost like a series of epigrammatic proverbs", though he doubts that Drake saw himself as "any sort of poet". Instead he believes that Drake's lyrics were crafted to "complement and compound a mood that the melody dictates in the first place."[68]

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Nick Drake

Discography • Five Leaves Left (1969) • Bryter Layter (1970) • Pink Moon (1972)

References Notes [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Retrieved on 7 May 2011. http:/ / brytermusic. com " Nick Drake — Biography (http:/ / www. vh1. com/ artists/ az/ drake_nick/ artist. jhtml)". VH1.com, 2005. Retrieved on 2 September 2006. " Brad Pitt fronts Nick Drake show (http:/ / news. bbc. co. uk/ 1/ hi/ entertainment/ music/ 3604905. stm)" BBC.co.uk., 2004. Retrieved on 22 August 2006. MacDonald, Ian. " Exiled from Heaven (http:/ / www. algonet. se/ ~iguana/ DRAKE/ exiled1. html)". Mojo Magazine, January 2000. However, a BBC article by Mark Moxon from 14 January 2002 states that "The album only sold 15,000 copies, which was enough to please the record company, but nothing like the success Nick was hoping for". (http:/ / www. bbc. co. uk/ dna/ h2g2/ A662924) Berkvens, Jeroen, A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake, Luijten Macrander Productions, 2000. McNair, James. Pop: Apprentice to the stars (http:/ / www. independent. co. uk/ arts-entertainment/ pop-apprentice-to-the-stars-1083050. html?cmp=ilc-n). The Independent, 26 March 1999.

[9] Dann (2006), 201 [10] Dann (2006), 75 [11] Dann (2006), 76 [12] Brown, Mick. " The Sad Ballad of Nick Drake (http:/ / www. rocksbackpages. com/ article. html?ArticleID=104)". Sunday Telegraph (UK), 12 July 1997. Retrieved on 31 January 2007. [13] Berkvens, Jeroen. A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake (video documentary). Roxie Releasing, 2000. [14] Dann (2006), 91 [15] McGrath, T.J. " Darkness Can Give You the Brightest Light (http:/ / www. dirtylinen. com/ feature/ 42drake. html)". Dirty Linen, Issue 42, October–November 1992. Retrieved on 23 February 2008. [16] Dann (2006), 95, 97 [17] Paphides, Peter. "Like A Heart with Legs On". Western Mail (Wales). 21 May 2004. Questia (http:/ / www. questia. com/ PM. qst?a=o& d=5008063651). Retrieved 16 September 2006. [18] Humphries (1997), 36 [19] Dann (2006), 100 [20] Dann (2006), 124 [21] Humphries (1997), 51–52 [22] Dann (2006), 123 [23] Dann (2006), 28 [24] Dann (2006), 25 [25] Dann (2006), 40–43 [26] " Nick Drake—Chronology (http:/ / www. uow. edu. au/ ~morgan/ drake2. htm)". Retrieved on 11 November 2006. [27] Paphides, Peter. " Stranger to the world (http:/ / arts. guardian. co. uk/ features/ story/ 0,,1200107,00. html)". The Guardian (UK), 25 April 2004. Retrieved on 1 February 2007. [28] Boyd (2006), 192 [29] Rosen, Dave. " Five Leaves Left (http:/ / www. inkblotmagazine. com/ rev-archive/ drake. htm)". Ink Blot Magazine. Retrieved 1 February 2007. [30] Dann (2006), 59–60 [31] Dann (2006), 60 [32] Boyd (2006), 194 [33] Fitzsimmons, Mick. " Nick Drake, Made to Love Magic (http:/ / www. bbc. co. uk/ music/ release/ cnhj/ )". BBC.co.uk. Retrieved on 1 February 2007. [34] Dann (2006), 133 [35] Humphries (1997), 101–102 [36] Boyd (2006) 197 [37] Dann, (2006) 134 [38] Nickson, Chris. " Nick Drake (http:/ / www. globalvillageidiot. net/ Drake. cfm)." Globalvillageidiot.net, 2006. Retrieved on 21 October 2006.

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Nick Drake [39] Humphries (1997), 107–108 [40] Dann (2006), 141 [41] Sandall, Robert. " Brighter Very Much Later (http:/ / www. telegraph. co. uk/ arts/ main. jhtml?xml=/ arts/ 2004/ 05/ 20/ bmdrake20. xml)." Daily Telegraph, 20 May 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2007. [42] Unterberger, Richie. "[ Nick Drake]". Allmusic. Retrieved 22 August 2006. [43] Holden, Stephen. "Pop and Jazz Guide". New York Times. 22 August 1986. [44] Dann (2006), 142 [45] Dann (2006), 242 [46] Cale (1999), 128 [47] Hunt, Rupert. " Nick Drake—Life and Music in Quotes (http:/ / www. nickdrake. com/ nick_life_in_quotes. html)". Nickdrake.com, 2001. Retrieved 2 September 2006. [48] " Nick Drake — Singer and Songwriter (http:/ / www. bbc. co. uk/ dna/ h2g2/ A662924)". h2g2.com, 2002. Retrieved on 13 September 2006. [49] Macaulay, Stephen. " Nick Drake—Bartleby the Musician (http:/ / www. gloriousnoise. com/ articles/ 2006/ nick_drake_bartleby_the_musici. php)". Drake's discomfort grew sufficiently for him to unexpectedly leave the tour, after only a couple scheduled dates. Glorious Noise, 2 October 2006. Retrieved on 2 February 2007. [50] Fitzsimmons, Mick. " Lost Boy: In Search of Nick Drake (http:/ / www. bbc. co. uk/ radio2/ r2music/ documentaries/ nickdrake/ nickdrake_about. shtml)". BBC. Retrieved on 14 December 2011. [51] Humphries (1997), 166 [52] Dann (2006), 166 [53] Kirby, Robert. Quoted in Dann (2006), 157 [54] Dann (2006), 157 [55] Dann (2006), 168–170, 172 [56] Cooper, Colin. " Nick Drake — Bryter Layter (http:/ / www. stylusmagazine. com/ articles/ on_second_thought/ nick-drake-bryter-layter. htm)". stylusmagazine.com, 2 March 2004. Retrieved on 3 February 2007. [57] Wood, John. Interview conducted by Walhalla Radio Station, 1979. [58] Dann (2006), 245 [59] Dann (2006), 170 [60] Sandison, Dave. " Pink Moon (http:/ / www. tannforsen. com/ nickdrake/ media. asp?intId=46& intCatId=44)". UK Press Release, 1971. Retrieved on 14 November 2006. [61] McKnight, Connor. "In search of Nick Drake", Zigzag Magazine, #42, 1974. [62] Dann (2006), 162 [63] Gilbert, Jerry. "Something else for Nick? An interview with Nick Drake". Sounds Magazine, 13 March 1971. [64] Dann (2006), 163–164. [65] Barnes, Anthony. " Revealed: the forgotten tapes of Nick Drake (http:/ / findarticles. com/ p/ articles/ mi_qn4159/ is_20040222/ ai_n12752219)". Independent on Sunday (UK), 22 February 2004. Retrieved on 23 January 2007. [66] Humphries (1997), 166–168 [67] Dann (2006), 251 [68] Kent, Nick. "Requiem For A Solitary man". New Musical Express, 8 February 1975. [69] Dann (2006), 175 [70] " The alternative top 100 (http:/ / www. guardian. co. uk/ albums/ Story/ 0,,209103,00. html)". Guardian Unlimited, 1999. Retrieved on 3 September 2006. [71] Boyd (2006), 259 [72] Dann (2006), 180 [73] Boyd (2006), 259, 261 [74] Hicks, Andrew. " A Memoir of My Childhood Friend (http:/ / www. brytermusic. com/ )". Bryter Music, the Estate of Nick Drake, November 2000. Retrieved on 23 January 2007. [75] Dann (2006), 54, 183 [76] Dann (2006), 55 [77] " Heartbreak letter clue to death of cult singer (http:/ / www. uow. edu. au/ ~morgan/ drake4. htm)", "The Death of Nick Drake". Retrieved on 14 December 2011. [78] Dann (2006), 184 [79] Humphries (1997), 213–214 [80] Dann (2006), 187 [81] Boyd (2006), 260–261 [82] Humphries (1997), 215 [83] Dann (2006), 193–194 [84] Humphries (1997), 75 [85] Dann (2006), 194

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Sources • Boyd, Joe (2006). White Bicycles – Making Music in the 1960s, Serpent's Tail. ISBN 978-1-85242-910-2 • Cale, John (1999). What's Welsh for Zen, Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-0-7475-4383-1 • Chartier, Henry (2008). "Nick Drake : l'abécédaire", Le Bord de l'eau (in French) ISBN 978-2-35687-002-5 • Dann, Trevor (2006). Darker Than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake, Da Capo Press. London. 2006. ISBN 978-0-306-81520-1 • Drake concert Central Park Summerstage 2005: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/22256/NY/ New-York-City/The-Music-of-Nick-Drake/Central-Park-Summerstage/ • De Angelis, Paola (2007). "Journey to the Stars — I testi di Nick Drake", Arcana Editrice (in Italian) • Drake, Nick: Under Review DVD (2007) ASIN: B000TV4PZG • Hogan, Peter K (2008)Nick Drake: The Complete Guide to His Music. • Humphries, Patrick (1997). Nick Drake: The Biography, Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 978-1-58234-035-7 • Petrusich, Amanda (2007) 33⅓ Nick Drake's Pink Moon. ISBN 978-0-8264-2790-8 • Rasmussen, Gorm Henrik (1986). Pink Moon — Sangeren og guitaristen Nick Drake, (in Danish), Forlaget Hovedland. • Rasmussen, Gorm Henrik (2012). Pink Moon: A Story about Nick Drake, Rocket 88. ISBN 978-1-906615-28-4 • Various sources (2003). Way to Blue: an Introduction to Nick Drake , Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-7119-8179-9 • Various sources (2003). The Nick Drake Song Collection, Music Sales. ISBN 978-0-7119-4464-0

External links • Bryter Music: The Estate of Nick Drake (http://www.brytermusic.com/) Official website • Annual Gathering (http://nickdrake.moonfruit.net/) web site for the annual gathering of musicians in Tanworth-in-Arden to celebrate the music of Nick Drake, with information, pictures and forum • Lost Boy – In Search of Nick Drake (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/documentaries/nickdrake/) – BBC Radio Documentary • Remembering Five Leaves Left (http://abc.net.au/rn/intothemusic/stories/2010/2986333.htm) – ABC Radio National Radio Documentary on Into the Music • A Place To Be: Reflections of Nick Drake (http://aplacetobe.cc/) – "a collection, a celebration, in film, photography, painting, drawing and prose, of the impact the music of Nick Drake has had on other artists" (official "touring exhibition" site sponsored by the Estate of Nick Drake)

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Nick Drake • Three Records from Sundown: Joe Boyd Remembers Nick Drake (http://www.podstantsiya.ru/?area=posts& id=1680) English language audio documentary with Russian text translation. • Exiled from Heaven (http://www.algonet.se/~iguana/DRAKE/exiled1.html) Essay on the life and music of Nick Drake by Ian MacDonald • Nick Drake (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7905) at Find a Grave • VegetableFriends (http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/VegetableFriends/), the original Robyn Hitchcock – Syd Barrett Discussion Group. Robyn Hitchcock wrote the song "I Saw Nick Drake".

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Studio albums Five Leaves Left Five Leaves Left Studio album by Nick Drake Released

1 September 1969

Recorded July 1968 – July 1969 at Sound Techniques, London Genre

Folk, folk rock, baroque pop, folk baroque

Length

41:43

Label

Island

Producer Joe Boyd Nick Drake chronology

Five Leaves Left (1969)

Bryter Layter (1970)

Professional ratings Review scores Source

Rating

Allmusic BBC Music Entertainment Weekly Piero Scaruffi Sputnikmusic

link (favourable) link

[1] [2]

(A) (7.5/10)

[] link

[3]

Five Leaves Left, recorded in 1969, was the first of three albums by British folk musician Nick Drake. Like Bryter Layter but unlike Pink Moon, this album contains no unaccompanied songs. Drake was accompanied by members of the British folk-rock groups Fairport Convention and Pentangle.

Five Leaves Left

Reception and influence Five Leaves Left was ranked 85th in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time. In 2003, the album was ranked number 280 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. NME (2 October 1993, p. 29) – Ranked No. 74 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums of All Time.' Q (November 1999, p. 162) – Included in Q's Best Folk Albums of All Time – "The pinnacle of a melancholy canon of work so distinctive that admirers can only speculate miserably on what might have been." Entertainment Weekly (12 May 2000, p.24) – "On his ageless debut, everything – Drake's lispy voice and delicate guitar fingerpicking, arranger Robert Kirby's stately strings – feels shrouded in mist....Drake's most glorious miniatures." – Rating: A Alternative Press (March 2001, p.88) – "With a voice paradoxically feather-light and grave, [one] of the most beautiful and melancholy albums ever recorded." Mojo (July 2000, p.99) – "Represents the first flourish of promise....God, how damn confident it all sounds. He knew how good he was." Rate Your Music, a metadatabase which aggregates the votes and reviews of its users, ranks the album fifth in the folk genre, seventh for albums released in 1969, and 56th overall. It has scored an average rating of 4.20 out of 5, which was calculated from 5957 ratings.[4] "Five leaves left" is a reference to the old Rizla cigarette papers packet – which used to contain a printed note near the end saying "Only five leaves left". The album title could also be a reference to an O. Henry short story entitled "The Last Leaf". The song Saturday Sun is featured in the British television show Misfits, early in the show's second season.

Track listing All songs written by Nick Drake. Side one 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

"Time Has Told Me" – 4:27 "River Man" – 4:21 "Three Hours" – 6:16 "Way to Blue" – 3:11 "Day Is Done" – 2:29

Side two 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

"'Cello Song" – 4:49 "The Thoughts of Mary Jane" – 3:22 "Man in a Shed" – 3:55 "Fruit Tree" – 4:50 "Saturday Sun" – 4:03

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Personnel Performers Nick Drake performs vocals and acoustic guitar on all songs, except "Way To Blue" and "Saturday Sun". • "Time Has Told Me" Paul Harris – piano Richard Thompson – electric guitar Danny Thompson – double bass • "River Man" Danny Thompson – double bass Harry Robinson – string arrangement • "Three Hours" Danny Thompson – double bass Rocky Dzidzornu – congas • "Way to Blue" Robert Kirby – string arrangement • "Day is Done" Robert Kirby – string arrangement • "Cello Song" Clare Lowther – cello Danny Thompson – bass Rocky Dzidzornu – congas, shaker • "The Thoughts of Mary Jane" Robert Kirby – arrangement • "Man in a Shed" Paul Harris – piano Danny Thompson – bass • "Fruit Tree" Robert Kirby – arrangement • "Saturday Sun" Nick Drake – piano Danny Thompson – bass Tristan Fry – drums, vibraphone

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Production • Simon Heyworth – mastering • Joe Boyd – production • John Wood – engineering

Release history Region

Date

Label Format Catalogue

United Kingdom 1 September 1969 Island LP

ILPS 9105

March 1987

CID 9195

26 June 2000

CD

IMCD 8

References [1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r106323 [2] http:/ / www. bbc. co. uk/ music/ reviews/ 3g54 [3] http:/ / www. sputnikmusic. com/ album. php?albumid=3831

External links • Five Leaves Left (http://musicbrainz.org/release-group/b9c4fc17-0dc5-3aa5-b1b9-08e1446e5bea) at MusicBrainz (list of releases) • A radio special about Five Leaves Left (http://colinmarshall.libsyn.com/ on_nick_drake_s_five_leaves_left_with_trevor_dann_patrick_humphries_and_peter_hogan) with Nick Drake biographers Trevor Dann, Patrick Humphries, and Peter Hogan on The Marketplace of Ideas • (http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/3g54) BBC Music review of Five Leaves Left

Bryter Layter

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Bryter Layter Bryter Layter Studio album by Nick Drake Released

1 November 1970

Recorded 1970, Sound Techniques, London Genre

Folk, folk rock, baroque pop, folk baroque

Length

39:09

Label

Island

Producer Joe Boyd Nick Drake chronology

Five Leaves Left (1969)

Bryter Layter (1970)

Pink Moon (1972)

Bryter Layter, recorded in 1970, was the second of three albums by British folk musician Nick Drake. Like Five Leaves Left, the album contains no unaccompanied songs: Drake was accompanied by part of the British folk rock group Fairport Convention and John Cale from The Velvet Underground, as well as Beach Boys musicians Mike Kowalski and Ed Carter.[1]

Reception Professional ratings Review scores Source

Rating

Allmusic

[2]

The Music Box

[3]

Q

[4] []

Piero Scaruffi

(7/10)

Sputnikmusic

4.5/5

[5]

In 2000, Q placed Bryter Layter at number 23 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. Q (January 2001, p. 95) – Included in Q's "5 Best Re-Issues of 2000". In 2003, the album was ranked number 245 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. NME (18 September 1993, p. 19) – Ranked No. 14 in NME's list of The Greatest Albums of the '70s. In 2000, NME included "One of These Things First" on a CD titled NME Presents Under the Influence, which included songs by some of most influential musicians and bands in music history.[6] Entertainment Weekly (12 May 2000, p. 24) – "The exquisiteness of the first album is expanded upon in 'Hazey Jane I', 'Fly' and a genuinely optimistic love song, 'Northern Sky'." – Rating: B+

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Mojo (July 2000, p. 99) – "Certainly the most polished of his catalogue....[It] begins to suggest a whole other tableau of unexplored possibilities....God, how damn confident it all sounds. He knew how good he was." Alternative Press (March 2001, p. 88) – "With a voice paradoxically feather-light and grave, [one] of the most beautiful and melancholy albums ever recorded." Q (May 2007, p. 135) – "Drake and producer Joe Boyd ratcheted up the production from the singer's debut album for this slick pop-folk set inspired by stoned late-night rambles around London. Hazey Jane II and at the Chime of a City Clock offered more hooks than a pirate convention, but mainstream success proved tellingly elusive."

Track listing All songs written and composed by Nick Drake. Side one No. Title

Length

1. "Introduction"

1:33

2. "Hazey Jane II"

3:46

3. "At the Chime of a City Clock"

4:47

4. "One of These Things First"

4:52

5. "Hazey Jane I"

4:31

Side two No. Title

Length

6. "Bryter Layter"

3:24

7. "Fly"

3:00

8. "Poor Boy"

6:09

9. "Northern Sky"

3:47

10. "Sunday"

3:42

Personnel Nick Drake performs vocals and guitar, except where indicated otherwise. • "Introduction" Nick Drake – guitar Dave Pegg – bass guitar Dave Mattacks – drums Strings arranged by Robert Kirby • "Hazey Jane II" Dave Pegg – bass Dave Mattacks – drums Richard Thompson – lead guitar Brass arrangement by Robert Kirby • "At the Chime of a City Clock" Ray Warleigh – alto sax

Bryter Layter Dave Pegg – bass Mike Kowalski – drums Strings arranged by Robert Kirby • "One of These Things First" Paul Harris – piano Ed Carter – bass Mike Kowalski – drums • "Hazey Jane I" Dave Pegg – bass Dave Mattacks – drums Strings arranged by Robert Kirby • "Bryter Layter" Nick Drake – guitar Lyn Dobson – flute Dave Pegg – bass Dave Mattacks – drums • "Fly" John Cale – viola and harpsichord Dave Pegg – bass • "Poor Boy" Ray Warleigh – alto sax Chris McGregor – piano Dave Pegg – bass Mike Kowalski – drums Pat Arnold and Doris Troy – backing vocals • "Northern Sky" John Cale – celeste, piano and organ Dave Pegg – bass Mike Kowalski – drums • "Sunday" Nick Drake – guitar Ray Warleigh – flute Dave Pegg – bass Dave Mattacks – drums Strings arranged by Robert Kirby

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Release history Region

Date

Label Format Catalogue

United Kingdom 1 November 1970 Island LP May 1987 26 June 2000

CD

ILPS 9134 CID 9134 IMCD 71

References • The cover of the North American version of the 2003 album Akuma no Uta by Japanese metal band Boris pays tribute to Bryter Layter. • The lyrics to "Fly" were heavily referenced in the 2005 film Zathura: A Space Adventure and the song was featured in Wes Anderson's "The Royal Tenenbaums". • The song "One of These Things First" was featured on the Grammy award winning Garden State soundtrack, compiled by Zach Braff. The song was also used in the 2008 film Seven Pounds starring Will Smith.

Notes [1] Music Blogger. Bryter layter: Nick Drake's Gabrielle Drake sheds a little light on her late sibling (http:/ / www. sfbg. com/ noise/ 2007/ 09/ 28/ bryter-layter-nick-drakes-gabrielle-drake-sheds-little-light-her-late-sibling). SF Bay Guardian Online. 27 September 2007. [2] [ Allmusic review] [4] Q, May 2007, Issue 250.

The title is in reference to Queen's English and BBC weather reporters who would describe the weather as "brighter later". [citation needed]

External links • Album online (http://www.radio3net.ro/dbartists/supersearch/QnJ5dGVyIExheXRlcg==/Bryter Layter) on Radio3Net a radio channel of Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company • Bryter Layter (http://musicbrainz.org/release-group/d742fded-00e7-3746-a63d-aa2def3fdbcc) at MusicBrainz (list of releases) • Lyrics (http://www.algonet.se/~iguana/DRAKE/NDbryter.html)

Pink Moon

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Pink Moon Pink Moon Studio album by Nick Drake Released

25 February 1972

Recorded October 1971 at Sound Techniques in London, United Kingdom Genre

Folk

Length

28:22

Label

Island

Producer John Wood Nick Drake chronology

Bryter Layter (1970)

Pink Moon (1972)

Pink Moon is the third and final studio album by the English folk musician Nick Drake, released on 25 February 1972 on Island. Pink Moon differs from Drake's other albums, as it is recorded without a backing band, only featuring Nick Drake on vocals, acoustic guitar and piano. Released two years before his suicide, the lyrical content of Pink Moon has been attributed to Nick Drake's depressive state before his death.[1] The songs are shorter than usual, and the stripped-down sound of the album has been described as bleak and harrowing, but also attractive.[2]

Background and recording Contrary to a popular legend that Drake dropped the album off in a plastic bag, anonymously, in the reception area of the record label, Drake delivered the tapes of Pink Moon to Chris Blackwell at Island Records.[3] It was recorded at midnight in two separate two-hour sessions, over two days in October 1971,Wikipedia:Vagueness featuring only Nick Drake's vocals and guitar, as well as some piano later overdubbed by Drake on the title track.[citation needed] The cover artwork of the album features an illustration by Michael Trevithick (Drake's sister's partner).[4] Nick's recording of "Plaisir d'amour", included as a hidden track on UK editions of the compilation A Treasury, was included on the track listing of the Pink Moon master tape box as the first track of Side Two, then marked "Do not use".[5]

Reception and legacy

Pink Moon

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Professional ratings Review scores Source

Rating

Allmusic

[6]

The Music Box

[7]

Q

[8]

Rolling Stone

[9]

Piero Scaruffi

[]

(8/10)

Sputnikmusic

[10]

Initially, Pink Moon garnered a small amount of critical attention, but decades after Drake's death it received widespread public and critical acclaim. The music on Pink Moon is sparse and unadorned (especially in comparison to Drake's previous recordings), though it nevertheless continues to be regarded by many fans and music critics as his greatest work. In 1999, the title track was used in "Milky Way", a Volkswagen Cabriolet commercial directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and filmed by Lance Acord, leading to a large increase in record sales,[11] and a number-five placing for Pink Moon in Amazon.com's sales chart.[12] In the 2000s, Pink Moon has been critically lauded, making it to the Melody Maker "All Time Top 100 Albums" as number 48. In 2003, the album was ranked number 320 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[1] In 2012, that ranking was revised to number 321.[13] American singer Meshell Ndegeocello recorded a cover of the title track "Pink Moon" for the album "Time of No Reply" by Misja Fitzgerald.

Track listing All songs written and composed by Nick Drake. Side one No. Title

Length

1. "Pink Moon"

2:06

2. "Place to Be"

2:43

3. "Road"

2:02

4. "Which Will"

2:58

5. "Horn"

1:23

6. "Things Behind the Sun"

3:57

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Side two No. Title

Length

7. "Know"

2:26

8. "Parasite"

3:36

9. "Free Ride"

3:06

10. "Harvest Breed"

1:37

11. "From the Morning"

2:30

Total length:

28:22

Personnel All personnel credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[14] Performer • Nick Drake – vocals, acoustic guitar, piano (1) Production • John Wood – producer, engineer Design personnel • Michael Trevithick – artwork • Keith Morris – photography • C.C.S. Associates – typography

Releases • 1972 – LP: Island ILPS 9184 / UK, original release on the first "palm tree" label • 1972 – LP: Island SMAS 9318 / US, first US release • 1980s – LP: Island ILPS 9184 / UK, re-release on the orange-blue "palm tree" label; Discogs [15] • 1990 – CD: Island IMCD 94 / Polygram 842,923-2; CD release within the Island Masters series; Discogs [16] • 1992 – CD: Hannibal HNCD 4436 / US; Discogs [17] • 2000 – CD: Island IMCD 94/ Universal 842,923, international re-release within the Island Masters series now labelled "Island Re-Masters" with additional slip cover, and original label reprint on the CD. • 2003 – CD: Island 422,842,923-2 / US; Discogs [18]

References [1] Pink Moon – Nick Drake (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ music/ lists/ 500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231/ pink-moon-nick-drake-19691231). Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 19 January 2012. [2] Allmusic: Nick Drake – Pink Moon review: www.allmusic.com/album/pink-moon-mw0000315191 [3] Dann, Trevor (2006). Darker Than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake, Pg. 170, Da Capo Press. London. 2006. ISBN 978-0-306-81520-1 [11] Drake, Nick. " Nick Drake – You're Nicked (http:/ / www. independent. co. uk/ arts-entertainment/ books/ features/ nick-drake-youre-nicked-407954. html)" The Independent (UK), 2006. Retrieved on 8 May 2008. [12] "Rock Star Back from the Dead". The Birmingham Post (UK). 7 April 2000. [13] Wenner, Jann S., ed. (2012). Rolling Stone – Special Collectors Issue – The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. USA: Wenner Media Specials. ISBN 978-7098934196 [15] http:/ / www. discogs. com/ release/ 607088 [16] http:/ / www. discogs. com/ release/ 414348 [17] http:/ / www. discogs. com/ release/ 391327

Pink Moon [18] http:/ / www. discogs. com/ release/ 865700

External links • Pink Moon (http://musicbrainz.org/release/c356465b-656b-4081-b474-dda0d08018a5) at MusicBrainz • VW Cabrio commercial (article + video) (http://creativity-online.com/work/volkswagen-milky-way/6922) • VW Cabrio commercial (video) (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3733651826588034673&q=pink+ moon)

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Compilations Nick Drake Nick Drake Compilation album by Nick Drake Released

1971,August

Genre

Folk

Label

Island

Producer

Joe Boyd

Nick Drake was an American only LP compilation release by Nick Drake. It was released in August 1971 as SMAS-9307, shortly after Island Records had started selling their own records in the U.S. At the time, they were distributed by Capitol records. The album included three songs from Five Leaves Left and five songs from Bryter Layter, and was packaged in a gate-fold sleeve that featured photos by Keith Morris. The 5th Edition of the Goldmine Record Album Price Guide places its value at $80. Universal Island Records released a limited-edition reproduction of the LP on April 20, 2013, as part of Record Store Day 2013.

Track listing Side one 1. 2. 3. 4.

"Cello Song" - 4:48 "Poor Boy" - 6:09 "At the Chime of a City Clock" - 4:45 "Northern Sky" - 3:45

Side two 1. 2. 3. 4.

"River Man" - 4:22 "Three Hours" - 6:15 "One of These Things First" - 4:51 "Fly" - 3:00

Review The 1971 August 7 edition of the Billboard Magazine gave the album the following review: " From the Opening Tune,"The Cello Song". Nick Drake has established his past, present and future, as he blends with the finest taste, the elements of jazz, classical and pop music with a mellow voice which whispers it's message and soothes the ears of the listener. "Poor boy" is a jazz based arrangement leaning heavily on piano and saxophone improvisations and a soul chorus. "Three Hours is rhythmic and foreboding in parts" [1]

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Personnel • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Nick Drake – vocals, guitar, piano Rocky Dzidzornu – percussion Mike Kowalski – drums Clare Lowther – cello Dave Pegg – bass Danny Thompson – bass Ed Carter - bass Chris McGregor – piano John Cale - piano, celeste, organ, harpsichord, viola Paul Harris - piano Ray Warleigh – alto sax P.P. Arnold and Doris Troy – backing vocals Robert Kirby - string arrangements Harry Robinson - string arrangements

Production notes: • Joe Boyd – producer • John Wood – engineer

References [1] http:/ / books. google. se/ books?id=9kQEAAAAMBAJ& printsec=frontcover& hl=sv& source=gbs_ge_summary_r& cad=0#v=onepage& q& f=false

Fruit Tree Fruit Tree Box set by Nick Drake Released

Original pressings: 9 March 1979 (Island) 5 August 1986 (Hannibal) Island Records re-issue: 5 November 2007 6 November 2007

Recorded

1968 - February 1974

Genre

Folk

Label

Island Hannibal

Producer

Joe Boyd / Various Nick Drake chronology

Pink Moon (1972)

Fruit Tree (1978)

Heaven in a Wild Flower (1985)

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Fruit Tree is a box set by English singer/songwriter Nick Drake. It now exists in several versions, all of which feature his three studio albums, plus additional material.

Versions There are now three distinct releases of Fruit Tree.[4][5]

1979 Release The 1979 release consisted of a box set of three LPs with new artwork. The first two were as listed below. The third was Pink Moon, track listing as below plus the last four songs of what later (1986 release) became Time of No Reply. This version was released on Island Records.

1986 Release The 1986 release was a 4 LP/CD release, and had the track listing as given below. It was released the same year as the separate Time of No Reply album. This version was released on Hannibal Records.

2007 Release The 2007 release features Drake's three studio albums (as per the first three albums of the 1986 release), plus A Skin Too Few DVD. This version was released on Island Records.

Track listing Disc One: Five Leaves Left 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

"Time Has Told Me" - 4:27 "River Man" - 4:21 "Three Hours" - 6:16 "Way to Blue" - 3:05 "Day Is Done" - 2:22 "'Cello Song" - 3:58 "The Thoughts of Mary Jane" - 3:12 "Man in a Shed" - 3:49 "Fruit Tree" - 4:42

Fruit Tree 10. "Saturday Sun" - 4:00

Disc Two: Bryter Layter 1. "Introduction" - 1:33 2. "Hazey Jane II" - 3:46 3. "At the Chime of a City Clock" - 4:47 4. "One of These Things First" - 4:52 5. "Hazey Jane I" - 4:31 6. "Bryter Layter" - 3:24 7. "Fly" - 3:00 8. "Poor Boy" - 6:09 9. "Northern Sky" - 3:47 10. "Sunday" - 3:42

Disc Three: Pink Moon 1. "Pink Moon" - 2:06 2. "Place to Be" - 2:44 3. "Road" - 2:02 4. "Which Will" - 2:59 5. "Horn" - 1:23 6. "Things Behind the Sun" - 3:56 7. "Know" - 2:27 8. "Free Ride" - 3:36 9. "Parasite" - 3:05 10. "Harvest Breed" - 1:38 11. "From the Morning" - 2:31 Note: In the 3 LP 1979 version, this disc additionally included the last four tracks of the disc below.

Disc Four (1986): Time of No Reply 1. "Time of No Reply" - 2:47 2. "I Was Made to Love Magic" - 3:28 3. "Joey" - 3:06 4. "Clothes of Sand" - 2:32 5. "Man in a Shed" (Demo) - 3:06 6. "Mayfair" - 2:33 7. "Fly" (Demo) - 3:37 8. "The Thoughts of Mary Jane" (Demo) - 3:46 9. "Been Smoking Too Long" - 2:17 10. "Strange Meeting II" - 3:38 11. "Rider on the Wheel" - 2:33 12. "Black Eyed Dog" (Demo) - 3:28 13. "Hanging on a Star" - 2:49 14. "Voice From the Mountain" - 2:12

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Disc Four (2007): Skin Too Few (DVD) 1. Skin Too Few (The Days of Nick Drake) (biographical film) 2. Introduction 3. Hazey Jane I 4. How Wild the Wind Blows 5. River Man 6. At the Chime of a City Clock 7. Day Is Done 8. Know 9. Hanging on a Star 10. From the Morning 11. Northern Sky

References [1] [ Allmusic review] [2] Okayplayer review (http:/ / www. okayplayer. com/ reviews/ index. php/ weblog/ more/ fruit_tree_boxset/ ) [3] Pitchfork Media review (http:/ / pitchfork. com/ reviews/ albums/ 10895-fruit-tree/ )

Heaven in a Wild Flower Heaven in a Wild Flower Compilation album by Nick Drake Released

May, 1985

Recorded

1968-1971

Genre

Folk

Length

48:35

Label

Island

Producer

Joe Boyd / John Wood Nick Drake chronology

Fruit Tree (1978))

Heaven in a Wild Flower (1985)

Time of No Reply (1986)

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Heaven in a Wild Flower is a 1985 compilation album featuring tracks by English singer/songwriter Nick Drake, taken from Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter and Pink Moon. The title of the compilation is taken from the lines of William Blake poem Auguries of Innocence. The album does not feature any of Drake's posthumously released material and because of the availability of more comprehensive compilations, such as Way to Blue and Fruit Tree, this collection is largely out of print.

Track listing All songs by Nick Drake 1. Fruit Tree - 4:49 2. Cello Song - 4:48 3. The Thoughts of Mary Jane - 3:20 4. Northern Sky - 3:46 5. River Man - 4:20 6. At the Chime of a City Clock - 4:47 7. Introduction - 1:31 8. Hazey Jane I - 4:31 9. Hazey Jane II - 3:46 10. Pink Moon - 2:04 11. Road - 2:01 12. Which Will - 2:58 13. Things Behind the Sun - 3:56 14. Time Has Told Me - 4:23

Personnel Nick Drake performs vocals and acoustic guitar on all songs and piano on "Pink Moon". Also featured (on various songs): • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Robert Kirby - String Arrangements Richard Thompson - Guitar John Cale - Organ, Celeste Chris McGregor - Piano Paul Harris - Piano Danny Thompson - Double Bass Dave Pegg - Bass Ed Carter - Bass Mike Kowalski - Drums Rocky Dzidzornu - Conga, Shaker Doris Troy - Backing Vocals P.P. Arnold - Backing Vocals Patrick Arnold - Backing Vocals

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• Ray Warleigh - Saxophone

External links • William Blake: Auguries of Innocence poem online [2]

References [1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r106326 [2] http:/ / www. online-literature. com/ blake/ 612/

Time of No Reply Time of No Reply Compilation album by Nick Drake Released

1986

Recorded

October 1968 – February 1974

Genre

Folk

Label

Hannibal

Producer

Joe Boyd / various Nick Drake chronology

Heaven in a Wild Flower (1985)

Time of No Reply (1986)

Way to Blue (1994)

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Time of No Reply is a 1986 compilation album featuring outtakes and alternative versions of songs by English folk singer Nick Drake. It was also included as the fourth disc of the 1986 version of the Nick Drake box set Fruit Tree.

Time of No Reply

Track listing All songs written by Nick Drake, except "Been Smoking Too Long," by Robin Frederick 1. "Time of No Reply" – 2:52 2. "I Was Made to Love Magic" – 3:08 3. "Joey" – 3:04 4. "Clothes of Sand" – 2:32 5. "Man in a Shed" – 3:02 6. "Mayfair" – 2:28 7. "Fly" – 3:35 8. "The Thoughts of Mary Jane" – 3:42 9. "Been Smoking Too Long" – 2:13 10. "Strange Meeting II" – 3:32 11. "Rider on the Wheel" – 2:30 12. "Black Eyed Dog" – 3:20 13. "Hanging on a Star" – 2:42 14. "Voice from the Mountain" – 3:40 Notes • • • •

Tracks 1, 2, 3 & 4 are outtakes from the Five Leaves Left sessions (November & December 1968) Tracks 5, 7, 9 & 10 are home demos from 1967-1969 Track 6 is from a pre Five Leaves Left session (October 1968) Track 8 is a different take than the version originally released on Five Leaves Left featuring Richard Thompson on guitar (December, 1968) • Tracks 11, 12, 13 & 14 are the so-called "final 4" recordings (February 1974)

Personnel Nick Drake performs vocals and acoustic guitar on all songs, except where indicated otherwise.

Plan for remastered version The Island executive who compiled the Family Tree collection indicated plans to remaster Time of No Reply (which was not originally released on Island, but on Hannibal Records), with a different track listing. This became Made to Love Magic.[2]

References [1] [ Allmusic review]

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Way to Blue

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Way to Blue Way to Blue Compilation album by Nick Drake Released

May 31, 1994

Recorded

1969 - 1974

Genre

Folk

Label

Hannibal

Producer

Joe Boyd / John Wood Nick Drake chronology

Time of No Reply (1986)

Way to Blue (1994)

Made to Love Magic (2004)

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Way to Blue is a 1994 compilation album featuring tracks by English singer/songwriter Nick Drake, taken from his original three albums plus "Time of No Reply". The album reached gold certificate in the U.K. on September 30th, 1999 after selling 100,000 copies.

Track listing All songs by Nick Drake 1. Cello Song – 4:45 from Five Leaves Left, 1969. 2. Hazey Jane I – 4:28 from Bryter Layter, 1970. 3. Way to Blue – 3:09 from Five Leaves Left, 1969. 4. Things Behind the Sun – 3:56 from Pink Moon, 1972. 5. River Man – 4:20 from Five Leaves Left, 1969. 6. Poor Boy – 6.06 from Bryter Layter, 1970.

Way to Blue 7. Time of No Reply – 2:44 from Time of No Reply, 1986. 8. From the Morning – 2:30 from Pink Moon, 1972. 9. One of These Things First – 4:50 from Bryter Layter, 1970. 10. Northern Sky – 3:44 from Bryter Layter, 1970. 11. Which Will – 2:56 from Pink Moon, 1972. 12. Hazey Jane II – 3:44 from Bryter Layter, 1970. 13. Time Has Told Me – 4:25 from Five Leaves Left, 1969. 14. Pink Moon – 2:03 from Pink Moon, 1972. 15. Black Eyed Dog – 3:25 from Time of No Reply, 1986. 16. Fruit Tree – 4:45 from Five Leaves Left, 1969.

Personnel Nick Drake performs vocals and acoustic guitar on all songs and piano "on Pink Moon". Also features (on various songs): • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Robert Kirby - String Arrangements Richard Thompson - Guitar John Cale - Organ, Celeste Chris McGregor - Piano Paul Harris - Piano Danny Thompson - Double Bass Dave Pegg - Bass Ed Carter - Bass Mike Kowalski - Drums Rocky Dzidzornu - Conga, Shaker Doris Troy - Backing Vocals P.P. Arnold - Backing Vocals Patrick Arnold - Backing Vocals Ray Warleigh - Saxophone

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References [2] Answers review (http:/ / www. answers. com/ topic/ way-to-blue-an-introduction-to-nick-drake) [3] Rolling Stone review (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ artists/ nickdrake/ albums/ album/ 238526/ review/ 5941721/ way_to_blue_an_introduction_to_nick_drake)

Made in Love Magic Made to Love Magic Compilation album by Nick Drake Released

May 24, 2004

Recorded

Various

Genre

Folk

Label

Island

Producer

Joe Boyd / Various Nick Drake chronology

Way to Blue (1994)

Made to Love Magic (2004)

A Treasury (2004)

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Made to Love Magic is a 2004 compilation album of out-takes and remixed tracks by English singer/songwriter Nick Drake. It is notable for featuring a previously unreleased solo acoustic version of "River Man", dating from early 1968, and the song "Tow the Line", a previously unheard song from Drake's final session in July 1974. The compilation reached #27[] on the UK Albums Chart.

Made in Love Magic

Track listing All songs are written by Nick Drake. 1. "Rider on the Wheel" 2. "Magic" 3. "River Man" 4. "Joey" 5. "Thoughts of Mary Jane" 6. "Mayfair" 7. "Hanging on a Star" 8. "Three Hours" 9. "Clothes of Sand" 10. "Voices" 11. "Time of No Reply" 12. "Black Eyed Dog" 13. "Tow the Line" Notes • Tracks 1, 4, 5, 9 & 12 are stereo remasters from Time of No Reply • Track 2 is "I Was Made to Love Magic" from Time of No Reply, sped-up, with a posthumously added string arrangement by Robert Kirby • Tracks 3 and 6 are Cambridge-era dorm demos (Spring 1968) • Track 7 is a different take than the version originally released on Time of No Reply (July 1974) • Track 8 is a different take than the version originally released on Five Leaves Left featuring Rebop Kwaku Baah on congas (March 1969) • Track 10 is a remastered version of "Voice from the Mountain" from Time of No Reply • Track 11 has a posthumously added string arrangement by Robert Kirby • Track 13 is possibly the last song Drake ever committed to tape (July 1974)

Personnel Nick Drake performs vocals and acoustic guitar on all songs, except where indicated otherwise.

References [1] Allmusic review (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ made-to-love-magic-mw0000483448) [2] Pitchfork Media review (http:/ / pitchfork. com/ reviews/ albums/ 2445-made-to-love-magic/ ) [3] Rolling Stone review (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ artists/ nickdrake/ albums/ album/ 6072423/ review/ 6085731/ made_to_love_magic)

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A Treasury A Treasury Compilation album by Nick Drake Released

October, 2004

Recorded

Various

Genre

Folk

Label

Island

Producer

Joe Boyd / John Wood Nick Drake chronology

Made to Love Magic (2004)

A Treasury (2004)

Family Tree (2007)

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A Treasury is a Nick Drake compilation aimed at the audiophile audience. Released on October 26, 2004, it was available as both a hybrid multichannel SACD and a 180 gram vinyl LP.

Track listing 1. Introduction 2. Hazey Jane II 3. River Man 4. 'Cello Song 5. Hazey Jane I 6. Pink Moon 7. Poor Boy 8. Magic 9. Place to Be 10. Northern Sky 11. Road 12. Fruit Tree 13. Black Eyed Dog 14. Way to Blue 15. From the Morning 16. Plasir d'Amour (previously unreleased – hidden bonus track)

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References [1] Allmusic review (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ a-treasury-mw0000300999) [2] Pitchfork Media review (http:/ / pitchfork. com/ reviews/ albums/ 2446-a-treasury/ )

Family Tree Family Tree Compilation album by Nick Drake Released

July 9, 2007

Recorded Various Genre

Folk

Length

66:10

Label

Island (UK CD), Tsunami LG/Fontana (US CD), Sunbeam (UK 2LP)

Producer Various Nick Drake chronology

A Treasury (2004)

Family Tree (2007)

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[3]

Family Tree is a 2007 compilation album of home recordings by English singer/songwriter Nick Drake. The album is notable for the appearance of Nick's sister, Gabrielle, on one track and the contribution of two original songs performed by Nick's mother, Molly Drake. Recorded before the release of his first album Five Leaves Left, most of the tracks on the album circulated on bootlegs in the years before official release due to the generosity of Drake's family in sharing them with fans.[4] The album reached #35 on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart, making it Drake's first album to chart in America.

Family Tree

Track listing All songs written and performed by Nick Drake except where noted. 1. "Come In to the Garden (introduction)" - 0:31 2. "They're Leaving Me Behind" - 3:16 3. "Time Piece" - 0:43 4. "Poor Mum" written & performed by Molly Drake - 1:38 5. "Winter Is Gone" (Traditional) - 2:42 6. "All My Trials" (Traditional) (with Gabrielle Drake) - 1:55 7. "Kegelstatt Trio for clarinet, viola and piano" (Mozart) (Nick on clarinet with his aunt & uncle) - 1:14 8. "Strolling Down the Highway" (Bert Jansch) - 2:50 9. "Paddling in Rushmere" (Traditional) - 0:24 10. "Cocaine Blues" (Traditional) - 2:59 11. "Blossom" - 2:41 12. "Been Smokin' Too Long" (Robin Frederick) - 2:13 13. "Black Mountain Blues" (Traditional) - 2:37 14. "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" (Bob Dylan) - 3:40 15. "If You Leave Me" (Traditional, Dave Van Ronk) - 2:04 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28.

"Here Come the Blues" (Jackson C. Frank) - 3:53 "Sketch 1" - 0:59 "Blues Run the Game" (Jackson C. Frank) - 2:25 "My Baby So Sweet" (Traditional, Blind Boy Fuller) (Not on every version of the album) - 1:45 "Milk and Honey" (Jackson C. Frank) - 3:00 "Kimbie" (Traditional, Jackson C. Frank) - 3:26 "Bird Flew By" - 2:54 "Rain" - 3:07 "Strange Meeting II" - 4:27 "Day Is Done" - 2:20 "Come Into the Garden" - 1:59 "Way to Blue" - 2:51 "Do You Ever Remember?" written & performed by Molly Drake - 1:37

The Sunbeam 2LP (UK) edition, and the iTunes full album download, include the song "Betty and Dupree" (2:17) as track 8, displacing the rest of the track list accordingly.

Personnel Nick Drake performs vocals and acoustic guitar except on those performed by Molly Drake, and clarinet on the Mozart piece. Gabrielle Drake and Molly Drake appear as noted.

References [1] [2] [3] [4]

[ Allmusic review] Pitchfork Media review (http:/ / www. pitchforkmedia. com/ reviews/ albums/ 10391-family-tree) Prefix Magazine review (http:/ / www. prefixmag. com/ reviews/ cds/ N/ nick-drake/ family-tree/ 3123) Nick Drake: Family Tree On Jambase (http:/ / www. jambase. com/ headsup. asp?storyID=10321)

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Tribute albums Brittle Days Brittle Days - A Tribute To Nick Drake Compilation album by Various artists Released

1992

Label

Imaginary Various artists chronology

Nine of Swords (Album) (1988)

Brittle Days - A Tribute to Nick Drake (1992)

Five Leaves Theft (Tribute album)

Brittle Days - A Tribute To Nick Drake is a 1992 compilation album released by Imaginary Records in the UK. The album features contemporary artists performing cover versions of songs by Nick Drake. Imaginary Records, most notably home the The Chameleons UK and similar new-wave UK bands, was greatly influenced by Drake.

Tracklisting 1. The Changelings - "River Man" 2. The High Llamas - "At The Chime Of A City Clock" 3. Loop - "Pink Moon" 4. No-Man - "Road" 5. The Walkabouts - "Cello Song" 6. Shelleyan Orphan - "Joey" 7. Scott Appel - "From the Morning" 8. The Times - "Fruit Tree" 9. Martyn Bates - "Know" 10. Swinging Swine - "Voice From The Mountain" 11. Nikki Sudden & The French Revolution - "Time Has Told Me" 12. Tracy Santa - "Fly" 13. Clive Gregson - "Northern Sky" 14. Scott Appel - "Hazy Jane" 15. R. Stevie Moore - "River Man"

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Second Grace Second Grace: The Music of Nick Drake Studio album by Christopher O'Riley Released

2007

Label

World Village USA Christopher O'Riley chronology

Poor Boy: Songs Of Nick Drake (2007)

Second Grace: The Music of Nick Drake (2004)

Second Grace: The Music of Nick Drake is a 2007 release of piano instrumentals by Christopher O'Riley, host of NPR's From The Top, of songs by English singer-songwriter Nick Drake (1948-1974). The booklet includes a lengthy and fairly technical discussion and appreciation of Nick's music by O'Riley.

Tracklisting 1. "Rider on the Wheel" 2. "Pink Moon" 3. "Fly" 4. "Parasite" 5. "River Man" 6. "One of These Things First" 7. "Joey" 8. "Introduction-Bryter Layter" 9. "Northern Sky" 10. "Hanging on a Star" 11. "Harvest Breed" 12. "Place to Be" 13. "Three Hours" 14. "From the Morning"

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Singles "Northern Sky" "Northern Sky" Single by Nick Drake from the album Bryter Layter Released

1970

Recorded 1969 Genre

Folk

Length

3:45

Label

Island

Writer(s) Nick Drake Producer Robert Kirby and Joe Boyd

"Northern Sky" is a song from Nick Drake's 1970 album Bryter Layter. Leading up to and during the recording sessions for the album, the chronically shy and notably withdrawn songwriter formed a friendship and eventually a mentorship of sorts with producer Joe Boyd. Boyd was an early catalyst for the singer, and saw commercial potential in the acoustic and unaccompanied demo version of song. He drafted in former Velvet Underground member John Cale to produce. Cale added piano, organ and celesta arrangements, initially against Drake's wishes.[1] The song marked a strong redirection in Drake's sound and he was in the end very pleased with Cale's additions and enthused by indications that it would make the single that would break him commercially. However, Island Records did not release it as a single and the accompanying album, like its predecessor, received no marketing support and failed to sell. In response, having tried his hand at lush arrangements, he responded with the sparse and bleak, voice and guitar only final album Pink Moon, which received limited release before his suicide in 1974. In the 1980s the track was pivotal in resurrecting interest in Drake's music which was, by then, largely forgotten. Biographer Patrick Humphries describes the song "Northern Sky" as "the finest ... to which Nick Drake ever lent his name. Again sounding alone and vulnerable .. he pleads for the brightness to come."[2]

Composition and arrangement The song is written in Drake's favoured DADGDG tuning, and features a middle eight composed by Cale during the recording. The involvement of the classically trained Cale reflects Drake's desire to move away from the pastoral sound of his 1969 debut album Five Leaves Left, which was a commercial failure. Cale's own career was similarly in tatters, he had recently been fired from the Velvets by Lou Reed, and was yet to re-establish his reputation as a formidable producer of works such as Patti Smith's "Horses". Drake sought to broaden his own appeal and tentatively agreed to Boyd's suggestion to include bass and drum tracks on recordings for Bryter Layter, and to experiment with a more pop or jazzy sound, which Boyd admitted he imagined would be "more commercial".[3] Yet it essentially retains Drake's original acoustic style, being anchored by long term producers and arrangers Robert Kirby and John Wood's sharp and stripped-down sparse engineering and production values. Trevor Dann believes that the contrasting approach of the two men produced accompaniment that is "opulent without overpowering the fragile little song".[4]

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The song was probably written during Drake's brief period of living in Hastings with John Martyn and his wife Beverley.[5] According to Beverley Martyn, "He wrote that one around us. We had a tree in the garden across the pavement - hence the line, 'Smelt sweet breezes at the top of a tree.' The top of the tree came to the window where Nick was, and you could see the full moon on the sea at night."[6] There has been speculation as for whom the song was written, with Linda Thompson as the most often mentioned candidate. There is no real evidence for this however, and he was at the time friendly with a number of women. He had platonic friendships with both Sophia Ryde and Beverly Martyn, with whom he was particularly close, although neither of these relationships developed.[5] Dann speculates that the song may have been inspired by Drake's enthusiasm for hashish, a drug which the songwriter was using, according to close associates, to insulate himself from the world around him. Although he does not appear to have developed his drug habit further, it has been suggested that his tastes developed after his contact with Cale, who was struggling with a heroin habit. After Bryter Layter failed to sell, Drake rarely left his flat, and then only to play an occasional poorly-attended concert or to buy drugs.[7] "Northern Sky" "Northern Sky" features piano, organ and celesta performed by John Cale.

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Boyd was at the time working as co-producer with John Cale on Nico's Desertshore album. Boyd sent the recently ex-Velvet Underground member a demo recording of a few of the tracks that were to form Bryter Layter.[8] The morning Cale received them, he rang Boyd asking "Who the fuck *is* this guy? I have to meet him, where is he right now."[9] He described his first impressions after meeting Drake as of "a very quiet guy. It was very difficult to figure what was going on in his mind. He made music with a real sensuality - very different from English folk music".[10] Boyd phoned Drake, and was given consent - Boyd claims Drake's only words during the conversation were "Oh, uh, OK". He arranged a recording session for the following day, on the condition that Cale would be allowed to add accompaniment to the tracks.[10] That morning, with Wood and Kirby engineering and assisting, they recorded "Northern Sky" and "Fly". Cale improvised piano, celeste, and Hammond organ parts on "Northern Sky", and viola and harpsichord arrangements on "Fly". In his 2006 biography of Drake, Trevor Dann describes Cale's contribution as infusing the tracks with a "subtlety that Robert Kirby's full-blown arrangements didn't quite match on some of the other tracks [on Bryter Layter].[10] Boyd noticed Cale was strongly leading the direction of the recording, but that as the songs were reforming, Drake gradually seemed to gain trust in his judgment. During the session he asked the songwriter if he was happy with the direction the songs were taking, and was met with an affirmative "Yeh, yeh, I guess so yeh, yeh."[10] Boyd later wrote "Despite [Cale's] domineering manner, [he] was very solicitous towards Nick, who seemed to be guardedly enjoying himself: his only choice was to relax and be carried along."[9] Although Boyd is credited with production, he admits his actual contribution was putting the two men in contact.

Reception Although Drake's debut album sunk without trace, a mood of optimism surrounded the lead-up to the release of Bryter Layter. According to Kirby, Drake himself was uncharacteristically upbeat. He felt at the time that Bryter Layter "was going to be the one with a single on it. I always rated "Poor Boy", but they could have gone with "Northern Sky", but nothing ever happened."[11] Patrick Humphries wrote of the song: "The atmosphere is dense, suggesting sliver moons sailing on a raven black sea, wind lightly ruffling the hair of the treetops, all stoked by a crazy kind of magic; and the alchemy is fuelled by Cale's hymnal organ and soaring piano figures."[2] Music critic Peter Paphides described it as, "the most unabashedly joyful song in his canon."[6]

"Northern Sky" The 1985 UK hit single "Life in a Northern Town" by Dream Academy was based on and inspired by "Northern Sky", and contributed to the early to mid-80s revival of interest in the songwriter's career. Singer Nick Laird-Clowes's breathy vocals directly reference Drake's style, while the record sleeve contains the words "Nick Drake, Steve Reich & Classics For Pleasure". Drake, then practically unknown in the UK[citation needed], was name-checked in a Melody Maker interview with Laird-Clowes, who said his song came of a "strong connection with Nick Drake in a way I can't even explain".[12] As a result of this, the BBC began to field requests for Drake's song, while Nick Stewart, head of A&R at Island Records, pitched to the label that the songwriter's catalogue might then be ideally placed for re-issue to the then developing adult CD market.[12] The song was issued as a promotional CD maxi-single for the 1994 compilation album Way to Blue: – An Introduction to Nick Drake. In 2004 the NME described the song as the "greatest English love song of modern times".[4] The song also appeared on the 2005 compilation album Anthems in Eden: An Anthology of British & Irish Folk 1955–1978.

Covers The song was covered by Danny Cavanagh on his 2004 album of Nick Drake songs A Place To Be.[13] It was also recorded by Clive Gregson in 1992 for the compilation album Brittle Days – A Tribute to Nick Drake;[14] by Portastatic in 2002 for the Merge Records album Survive and Advance, Vol. 1;[15] and by Christopher O'Riley for his 2007 album Second Grace: The Music of Nick Drake.[16]

Personnel • • • •

Nick Drake - vocals and guitar John Cale – celeste, piano and Hammond organ Dave Pegg – bass Mike Kowalski – drums

References [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Cale, John. What's Welsh for Zen (2000), (Hardback), Bloomsbury. ISBN 1-58234-068-4 Humphries, 115 Dann (2006), 142 Dann, 242 Dann, 243 Paphides, Peter. " Stranger to the world (http:/ / arts. guardian. co. uk/ features/ story/ 0,,1200107,00. html)". The Guardian (UK), 25 April 2004. Retrieved 23 August 2013. [7] Dann (2006), 157 [8] Dann, 143 [9] Boyd, 201 [10] Dann, 144 [11] Humphries, 116 [12] Dann, 197

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"Northern Sky"

Sources • Dann, Trevor (2006). Darker Than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake, Da Capo Press. London. ISBN 978-0-306-81520-1 • Boyd, Joe (2006). White Bicycles – Making Music in the 1960s, Serpent's Tail. ISBN 978-1-85242-910-2 • Humphries, Patrick (1997). Nick Drake: The Biography, Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 978-1-58234-035-7

External links • Northern Sky (http://www.nickdrake.com/northern_sky_lyrics.html) full lyrics at nickdrake.com

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"Magic"

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"Magic" "Magic" Single by Nick Drake from the album Made to Love Magic Released

17 May 2004

Format

CD single, 7" single

Recorded 1969 Genre

Baroque pop

Length

6:31

Label

Island

Writer(s) Nick Drake Producer Robert Kirby and Joe Boyd Nick Drake singles chronology

Magic River Man (2004) (2004)

"Magic" (also known as "I Was Made to Love Magic") is the second listed song from Nick Drake's 2004 compilation album Made to Love Magic and was remastered and released as a single in 2004. The single was released on both CD and vinyl record formats with Bryter Layter track "Northern Sky" as a B-side. "Magic" was originally recorded for the Five Leaves Left sessions but did not appear on the final album. A version of the song with a different string arranger features on Time of No Reply, Drake's 1986 outtakes compilation. For Made to Love Magic the song was artificially sped up and stripped of its original string section, which was scored by Richard Hewson. A separate string arrangement written in 1969 by Robert Kirby, recorded in 2004, was used as a backing to the new faster track. Upon its 2004 issue as a single, it was placed at #34 on the UK Singles Chart, the first time the single had appeared on the chart.

Track listing All Songs by Nick Drake: 1. Magic - 2:45 2. Northern Sky - 3:46

Personnel • • • • •

Nick Drake - Vocals, guitar Robert Kirby - arrangements John Cale - celeste, piano and organ Dave Pegg - bass Mike Kowalski - drums

"River Man"

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"River Man" "River Man" Single by Nick Drake from the album Five Leaves Left Released

13 September 2004

Format

CD single, 7" single

Recorded 1969 Genre

Folk baroque, baroque pop

Length

4:21

Label

Island (UK), Elektra (US)

Writer(s) Nick Drake Producer Robert Kirby and Joe Boyd Nick Drake singles chronology

Magic (2004)

'River Man' (2004)

"River Man" (  sample Wikipedia:Media helpFile: River man Nick Drake 28 sec.ogg) is the second listed song from Nick Drake's 1969 album Five Leaves Left, remastered and released as a single in 2004. According to Drake's manager, Joe Boyd, Drake thought of the song as the centre piece of the album. It was also a selection by Paul Weller in Desert Island Discs.

Musical structure and lyrics The song is in a 5/4 time signature and is one of the few songs Drake wrote to be played in standard tuning. The string arrangement was composed by Harry Robinson and Robert Kirby, after Drake's friend Robert Kirby felt he couldn't compose it alone, although he did most of the composing for the rest of Five Leaves Left.[1] Drake did not reveal the identity of the 'Betty' character in the lyrics, although Trevor Dann speculated that she may have been drawn from Betty Foy, a character in Wordsworth's "The Idiot Boy", a poem Drake had studied while attending Cambridge.[2] However, the only similarity to the poem is the existence of a Betty.[3]

Covers American jazz pianist Brad Mehldau is an admirer of Drake's music, and has recorded "River Man" on numerous albums, such as Live in Tokyo — Solo Piano, usually remaining very faithful to the dark, autumnal sound that defines Drake's recording. German jazz trumpet player Till Brönner covered "River Man" on his 2006 album Oceana. Andy Bey's cover is on Shades of Bey, 1998. Paul Weller covered the song; it appears as a bonus track on the compilation album Island Life: 50 years of Island Records.

"River Man" English traditional folk group Rachel Unthank and the Winterset included a cover of the song on their debut album Cruel Sister.[4] British folk musician Norma Waterson included a cover of "River Man" on her second solo album The Very Thought of You in 1999. The song was paired with a cover of John Martyn's "Solid Air", originally dedicated to Drake on Martyn's 1973 album Solid Air. Accompanying Norma Waterson were Richard Thompson and Danny Thompson who were both on the original "Five Leaves Let" album also, Danny was the double bass player on most of the John Martyn albums of the "Solid Air" era. Tom Barman, lead singer and guitar player of Belgian rock band dEUS, included a cover of "River Man" on the 2003 CD of his acoustic concerts with Guy Van Nueten. Laura Michelle Kelly recorded a cover of the song for her 2006 album "The Storm Inside", then again for her 2007 album "What's It All For". Natacha Atlas also performed a cover version of "River Man" with English and Arabic lyrics for her 2010 album Mounqaliba.[5] Ilona Knopfler's cover is on Some Kind of Wonderful, 2003. David Lemaitre closes his debut album "Latitude" that comes out in April 2013 with his version of "River Man". Jazz singer Claire Martin recorded a version on her 1999 album 'Take my heart'.

Track listing 2004 CD 1. "River Man" 2. "Day Is Done" (by Norah Jones and the Charlie Hunter Band) 3. "River Man" (video by Tim Pope) 2004 7" 1. "River Man" 2. "River Man" (demo version)

References [1] Raggett, Ned. "[ Five Leaves Left]". Allmusic. Retrieved on 19 September 2006. [2] Dann, Trevor. Darker than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake (2006), (Hardback) Portrait. ISBN 0-7499-5095-1 [3] A Tentative, Yet Serendipitous Discovery Upon Reading Wordsworth (http:/ / www. algonet. se/ ~iguana/ DRAKE/ boyce3. html) by Donnah Boyce [4] http:/ / rateyourmusic. com/ artist/ rachel_unthank_and_the_winterset [5] Natacha Atlas' 'Mounqaliba' Anglo-Middle Eastern Meditations (http:/ / www. npr. org/ templates/ story/ story. php?storyId=130353375). NPR.

External links • Full lyrics of this song (http://www.metrolyrics.com/river-man-lyrics-nick-drake.html) at MetroLyrics

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Other songs "Pink Moon" Pink Moon Studio album by Nick Drake Released

25 February 1972

Recorded October 1971 at Sound Techniques in London, United Kingdom Genre

Folk

Length

28:22

Label

Island

Producer John Wood Nick Drake chronology

Bryter Layter (1970)

Pink Moon (1972)

Pink Moon is the third and final studio album by the English folk musician Nick Drake, released on 25 February 1972 on Island. Pink Moon differs from Drake's other albums, as it is recorded without a backing band, only featuring Nick Drake on vocals, acoustic guitar and piano. Released two years before his suicide, the lyrical content of Pink Moon has been attributed to Nick Drake's depressive state before his death.[1] The songs are shorter than usual, and the stripped-down sound of the album has been described as bleak and harrowing, but also attractive.[2]

Background and recording Contrary to a popular legend that Drake dropped the album off in a plastic bag, anonymously, in the reception area of the record label, Drake delivered the tapes of Pink Moon to Chris Blackwell at Island Records.[3] It was recorded at midnight in two separate two-hour sessions, over two days in October 1971,Wikipedia:Vagueness featuring only Nick Drake's vocals and guitar, as well as some piano later overdubbed by Drake on the title track.[citation needed] The cover artwork of the album features an illustration by Michael Trevithick (Drake's sister's partner).[4] Nick's recording of "Plaisir d'amour", included as a hidden track on UK editions of the compilation A Treasury, was included on the track listing of the Pink Moon master tape box as the first track of Side Two, then marked "Do not use".[5]

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Reception and legacy Professional ratings Review scores Source

Rating

Allmusic

[6]

The Music Box

[7]

Q

[8]

Rolling Stone

[9]

Piero Scaruffi

[]

(8/10)

Sputnikmusic

[10]

Initially, Pink Moon garnered a small amount of critical attention, but decades after Drake's death it received widespread public and critical acclaim. The music on Pink Moon is sparse and unadorned (especially in comparison to Drake's previous recordings), though it nevertheless continues to be regarded by many fans and music critics as his greatest work. In 1999, the title track was used in "Milky Way", a Volkswagen Cabriolet commercial directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and filmed by Lance Acord, leading to a large increase in record sales,[11] and a number-five placing for Pink Moon in Amazon.com's sales chart.[12] In the 2000s, Pink Moon has been critically lauded, making it to the Melody Maker "All Time Top 100 Albums" as number 48. In 2003, the album was ranked number 320 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[1] In 2012, that ranking was revised to number 321.[13] American singer Meshell Ndegeocello recorded a cover of the title track "Pink Moon" for the album "Time of No Reply" by Misja Fitzgerald.

Track listing All songs written and composed by Nick Drake. Side one No. Title

Length

1. "Pink Moon"

2:06

2. "Place to Be"

2:43

3. "Road"

2:02

4. "Which Will"

2:58

5. "Horn"

1:23

6. "Things Behind the Sun"

3:57

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Side two No. Title

Length

7. "Know"

2:26

8. "Parasite"

3:36

9. "Free Ride"

3:06

10. "Harvest Breed"

1:37

11. "From the Morning"

2:30

Total length:

28:22

Personnel All personnel credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[14] Performer • Nick Drake – vocals, acoustic guitar, piano (1) Production • John Wood – producer, engineer Design personnel • Michael Trevithick – artwork • Keith Morris – photography • C.C.S. Associates – typography

Releases • 1972 – LP: Island ILPS 9184 / UK, original release on the first "palm tree" label • 1972 – LP: Island SMAS 9318 / US, first US release • 1980s – LP: Island ILPS 9184 / UK, re-release on the orange-blue "palm tree" label; Discogs [15] • 1990 – CD: Island IMCD 94 / Polygram 842,923-2; CD release within the Island Masters series; Discogs [16] • 1992 – CD: Hannibal HNCD 4436 / US; Discogs [17] • 2000 – CD: Island IMCD 94/ Universal 842,923, international re-release within the Island Masters series now labelled "Island Re-Masters" with additional slip cover, and original label reprint on the CD. • 2003 – CD: Island 422,842,923-2 / US; Discogs [18]

References [1] Pink Moon – Nick Drake (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ music/ lists/ 500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231/ pink-moon-nick-drake-19691231). Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 19 January 2012. [2] Allmusic: Nick Drake – Pink Moon review: www.allmusic.com/album/pink-moon-mw0000315191 [3] Dann, Trevor (2006). Darker Than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake, Pg. 170, Da Capo Press. London. 2006. ISBN 978-0-306-81520-1 [11] Drake, Nick. " Nick Drake – You're Nicked (http:/ / www. independent. co. uk/ arts-entertainment/ books/ features/ nick-drake-youre-nicked-407954. html)" The Independent (UK), 2006. Retrieved on 8 May 2008. [12] "Rock Star Back from the Dead". The Birmingham Post (UK). 7 April 2000. [13] Wenner, Jann S., ed. (2012). Rolling Stone – Special Collectors Issue – The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. USA: Wenner Media Specials. ISBN 978-7098934196

"Pink Moon"

External links • Pink Moon (http://musicbrainz.org/release/c356465b-656b-4081-b474-dda0d08018a5) at MusicBrainz • VW Cabrio commercial (article + video) (http://creativity-online.com/work/volkswagen-milky-way/6922) • VW Cabrio commercial (video) (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3733651826588034673&q=pink+ moon)

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The discography of Nick Drake, an English folk musician and singer-songwriter, consists of three studio albums, four singles, eight compilation albums and one video album. Drake was born on 19 June 1948 in Yangon, Burma and returned with his family to England in 1950.[1] He was encouraged by his mother to learn piano and later learned clarinet and saxophone while attending Marlborough College.[2] In 1965, Drake purchased his first guitar and began experimenting with open tuning and finger-picking,[3] techniques that later became a signature in his music. While Drake was attending University of Cambridge in 1968, he was introduced to the American record producer Joe Boyd and signed a contract to Island Records.[4] Drake released his debut studio album, Five Leaves Left, in September 1969. The recording sessions and post-production of the album were difficult due to creative differences between Drake and production personnel.[5] Five Leaves Left also received poor marketing from Island[6] and mixed reviews from critics.[7] In November 1970, Drake released his second studio album, Bryter Layter, which featured a more up-tempo and jazz-influenced sound. Joe Boyd described that the album had "more of a pop sound" and "imagined it as more commercial."[8] The album sold fewer than 3,000 copies upon its release and received mixed reviews. Drake suffered from depression following the commercial failure of his first two releases.[9] However, in October 1971, Drake began recording sessions with a new producer, John Wood. Recorded at two midnight sessions at Sound Techniques in London, the sessions resulted in Drake's third and final studio album, Pink Moon. It was released in February 1972 and despite poor sales, Pink Moon received positive critical acclaim.[10] Drake attempted to record a fourth album in 1974,[11] just months prior to his death on 25 November.[12] Drake failed to reach a wide audience during his lifetime but has since gained wider recognition.[13][14] Compilations of his music have charted worldwide—including the United Kingdom, Belgium, Ireland and the United States—and re-releases of his singles have entered into the UK Singles Chart. One of his compilation albums, Way to Blue: An Introduction to Nick Drake, has been certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry.[15]

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Albums Studio albums List of studio albums Title

Album details

Five Leaves Left • • •

Released: 1 September 1969 Label: Island (9105) Formats: CD, LP

Bryter Layter

• • •

Released: 1 November 1970 Label: Island (9134) Formats: CD, LP

Pink Moon

• • •

Released: 25 February 1972 Label: Island (9184) Formats: CD, LP

Compilation albums List of compilation albums, with peak chart positions and certifications Title

Album details

Peak chart positions

Certifications (sales thresholds)

UK BEL IRL US [] [16] [17] Indie

[18]

Nick Drake

• • •

Released: 1971 Label: Island (9307) Formats: LP

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Fruit Tree

• • •

Released: March 1979 Label: Island (1745700) Formats: 3xLP, CD

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Heaven in a Wild Flower: An Exploration of Nick Drake • • •

Released: May 1985 Label: Island (9826) Formats: LP, CD

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Time of No Reply

• • •

Released: 1986 Label: Hannibal (1318) Formats: LP, CD, CS

—

—

—

—

Way to Blue: - An Introduction to Nick Drake

• • •

Released: 31 May 1994 Label: Island (74321 21325) Formats: CD

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Made to Love Magic

• • •

Released: 27 September 2004 27 Label: Island (986 631) Formats: CD, LP

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A Treasury

• • •

Released: 27 October 2004 Label: Island (986 792) Formats: CD, LP

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—

—

—

Family Tree

• • •

Released: 10 June 2007 Label: Island (1734 041) Formats: CD, LP

—

—

—

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[15]

UK: Gold

Discography

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Singles Retail singles List of retail singles, with peak chart positions Year Title

Peak chart positions Album UK []

2004 "Magic"/ "Northern Sky"

32

"River Man"/ "River Man" (1968 Recording)

Made to Love Magic

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Promotional singles List of promotional singles Year Title

Album

1993 "Northern Sky" Way to Blue: – An Introduction to Nick Drake 2000 "Pink Moon"

Pink Moon

Video albums List of video albums Title

Album details

A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake • • •

Compilation appearances

Released: 2002, 4 December 2007[A] Label: Island Format: DVD

Discography

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List of appearances on various artist compilation albums Year Song

Album

Notes

1969 "Time Has Told Me"

Nice Enough to Eat

From Five Leaves Left. [19]

1970 "Hazey Jane I"

Bumpers

From Bryter Layter

1971 "One of These Things First" El Pea

Ref.

[20] [21]

1994 "Road"

Folk Routes

From Pink Moon.

1995 "Three Hours"

Troubadours of British Folk, Vol.2: Folk into Rock

From Five Leaves Left. [23]

2001 "Pink Moon"

As Seen on TV: Songs from Commercials

From Pink Moon.

2005 "Northern Sky"

Anthems in Eden: An Anthology of British & Irish Folk 1955–1978 From Bryter Layter.

[22]

[24] [25]

"River Man"

Late Night Tales: The Flaming Lips

From Five Leaves Left. [26]

"Hazey Jane II"

Acoustic 05

From Bryter Layter.

The Acoustic Album

From Five Leaves Left. [28]

2006 "Time Has Told Me"

2007 "One of These Things First" Four Decades of Folk Rock

From Bryter Layter.

Soundtrack appearances List of appearances on film and television soundtrack albums Year Song

Album

Notes

Ref.

1997 "River Man"

Dream with the Fishes

From Five Leaves Left.

[30]

Star Maps

From Pink Moon.

[31]

"Horn" 1998 "Road" "Black Eyed Dog" 2001 "Northern Sky"

Hideous Kinky

[32]

Practical Magic

From Time of No Reply. [33]

Serendipity

From Bryter Layter.

"Fly"

The Royal Tenenbaums

"Cello Song"

Me Without You

2004 "One of These Things First" Garden State

[34] [35]

From Five Leaves Left.

[36]

From Bryter Layter.

[37]

2005 "Northern Sky"

Fever Pitch

2007 "Pink Moon"

Driving Lessons

From Pink Moon.

[39]

2008 "Poor Boy"

What Just Happened

From Bryter Layter.

[40]

2011 "Pink Moon"

The Way

From Pink Moon.

[41]

[38]

[27]

[29]

Discography

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Notes •

[42]

^ A A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake was originally a BBC Four documentary, originally broadcast in 2002. [43] as a video album with limited repressings of Fruit Tree in 2007.

It was later released

References Bibliography • Humphries, Patrick (1997). Nick Drake: The Biography. Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 978-1-58234-035-7. • Dann, Trevor (2006). Darker Than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake. London: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81520-1. Footnotes [2] Humphries 1997, p. 36. [5] Dann 2006, p. 59–60. [6] Dann 2006, p. 133. [7] Humphries 1997, p. 101–102. [8] Dann 2006, p. 142. [9] Dann 2006, p. 157. [11] Dann 2006, p. 180. [12] Humphries 1997, p. 213–214. [15] N.B. User must either enter "Nick Drake" into Search, select "Artist" from Search by and click Go or enter "Way to Blue" into Search, select "Title" from Search by and click Go.

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Joe Boyd Joe Boyd

Joe Boyd in Brussels - May 2008 Background information Born

August 5, 1942 Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Years active

1960s–present

Labels

Hannibal Records

Website

joeboyd.co.uk

[1]

Joe Boyd (born August 5, 1942) is an American record producer and writer. He formerly owned Witchseason production company and Hannibal Records. Boyd has played a crucial role in the recording careers of Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, Richard Thompson, Nick Drake, The Incredible String Band, Vashti Bunyan, John and Beverley Martyn, Maria Muldaur, Kate and Anna McGarrigle and Muzsikás.[2]

Career Boyd was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Princeton, New Jersey.[3] He attended Pomfret School in Pomfret, Connecticut. He first became involved in music promoting blues artists while a student at Harvard University. After graduating, Boyd worked as a production and tour manager for music impresario George Wein, which took Boyd to Europe to organise concerts with Muddy Waters, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.[4] Boyd was responsible for the sound at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, when Bob Dylan played a controversial set backed by electric musicians.[5] In 1964, Boyd paid his first visit to Britain, returning the following year to establish an overseas office of Elektra Records.[6] In 1966, Boyd opened UFO Club, London’s first psychedelic ballroom. He worked with UFO regulars Pink Floyd, and produced their first single, "Arnold Layne", and recordings by Soft Machine.[7] Boyd worked extensively with audio engineer John Wood at Sound Techniques studio in Chelsea. In this studio, Boyd and Wood made a succession of celebrated albums with British folk and folk rock artists, including the Incredible String Band, Martin Carthy, Nick Drake,[8] John Martyn, Fairport Convention and Richard Thompson.[9] Some of these were produced by Boyd's production company, Witchseason.

Joe Boyd Boyd returned to the United States at the end of 1970 to work as a music producer for Warner Bros. with special input into films, where he collaborated with Stanley Kubrick on the sound track release of A Clockwork Orange.[10] Boyd also contributed to the soundtrack of Deliverance, directed by John Boorman, where he supervised the recording of "Dueling Banjos", which became a hit single for Eric Weissberg.[11] Boyd also produced and co-directed the film documentary Jimi Hendrix (1973). In the States, Boyd produced albums by Maria Muldaur and Kate and Anna McGarrigle. Boyd subsequently founded the Hannibal Records label in 1980 (later absorbed into Rykodisc), which released albums by Richard Thompson and many recordings of world music, including Hungarian band Muzsikás. Boyd also produced R.E.M.'s third album Fables of the Reconstruction (1985), and records by Billy Bragg and 10,000 Maniacs. Boyd was Executive Producer for the 1988 feature film Scandal, starring John Hurt and Bridget Fonda about the Profumo Affair in UK politics in 1963. Boyd left Hannibal/Ryko in 2001 and his autobiography, White Bicycles Making Music in the 1960s, was published in 2006 by Serpent's Tail in the UK. In 2008, Boyd was a judge for the 7th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists.[12]

Records produced or co-produced 1960s 1966 • • • • •

The Incredible String Band (The Incredible String Band) Lord of the Dance (Sydney Carter) Alasdair Clayre (Alasdair Clayre) What's Shakin' (various artists) - 3 tracks by Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse A Cold Wind Blows (Elektra EUK 253) Various artists: Cyril Tawney, Matt McGinn, Johnny Handle and Alasdair Clayre[13]

1967 • • • • • •

The Power of the True Love Knot (Shirley Collins) The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion (The Incredible String Band) Rags Reels and Airs (Dave Swarbrick, Martin Carthy & Diz Disley) "Arnold Layne" / "Candy and a Currant Bun" (single by Pink Floyd) "Granny Takes a Trip" (single by The Purple Gang) "She's Gone", "I Should've Known" recordings for projected single by Soft Machine, June, Sound Techniques, London released on Triple Echo, 1977, Turns On Volume 1 (Voiceprint 2001 CD)

1968 • • • • • • • •

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (Pink Floyd tracks) Very Urgent (Chris McGregor) "If I Had a Ribbon Bow" / "If (Stomp)" (single by Fairport Convention) "If (Stomp)" / "Chelsea Morning" (single by Fairport Convention) Fairport Convention (Fairport Convention) The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (The Incredible String Band) Wee Tam and the Big Huge (The Incredible String Band) Kalpana - instrumental and dance music of India (various artists)

1969 • What We Did On Our Holidays (Fairport Convention) • "Si Tu Dois Partir" / "Genesis Hall" (single by Fairport Convention) • Unhalfbricking (Fairport Convention)

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Joe Boyd • • • • •

Five Leaves Left (Nick Drake) Liege & Lief (Fairport Convention) Kip of the Serenes (Dr. Strangely Strange) "Big Ted" / "All Writ Down" (single by The Incredible String Band) Changing Horses (The Incredible String Band)

1970s 1970 • • • • • • • • •

Desertshore (Nico) Just Another Diamond Day (Vashti Bunyan) Bryter Layter (Nick Drake) Stormbringer! (John and Beverley Martyn) U (Incredible String Band) Full House (Fairport Convention) Fotheringay (Fotheringay) I Looked Up (The Incredible String Band) Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending (The Incredible String Band)

• Pottery Pie (Geoff and Maria Muldaur) • Brotherhood of Breath (Brotherhood of Breath) 1971 • • • •

Smiling Men with Bad Reputations (Mike Heron) Call Me Diamond / Lady Wonder (single by Mike Heron) The Road to Ruin (John and Beverley Martyn) Heavy Petting (Dr. Strangely Strange)

1973 • • • •

Maria Muldaur (Maria Muldaur) Midnight at the Oasis b/w Any Old Time (single by Maria Muldaur) Dueling Banjos b/w Reuben's Train (single by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandel) Jimi Hendrix - soundtrack (Jimi Hendrix)[14]

1974 • Waitress in a Donut Shop (Maria Muldaur) • Muleskinner (Muleskinner) 1975 • Kate and Anna McGarrigle (Kate and Anna McGarrigle) • Geoff Muldaur Is Having a Wonderful Time (Geoff Muldaur) 1976 • • • •

Junco Partner (James Booker) Live at the L.A. Troubadour (Fairport Convention) Sweet Harmony (Maria Muldaur) Reggae Got Soul (Toots & the Maytals)

1977 • Dancer with Bruised Knees (Kate and Anna McGarrigle) 1978 • Rise Up Like the Sun (The Albion Band)

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Joe Boyd • Julie Covington (Julie Covington)

1980s 1981 • Too Late at Twenty (The Act: a band fronted by Nick Laird-Clowes) • Party Safari (Joe "King" Carrasco and The Crowns) • I Ain't Drunk (Geoff Muldaur) 1982 • • • •

Shoot Out the Lights (Richard and Linda Thompson) Don't Renege On Our Love / Living In Luxury (single by Richard and Linda Thompson) Thermonuclear Sweat (Defunkt) Money Fall Out The Sky (Cool It Reba)

1983 • Hand of Kindness (Richard Thompson) • Poppie Nongena - original cast recording 1984 • Small Town Romance (Richard Thompson) 1985 • Across a Crowded Room (Richard Thompson) • Fables of the Reconstruction (R.E.M.) • The Wishing Chair (10,000 Maniacs) 1986 • House Full - live at the LA Troubador (Fairport Convention) • Supply and Demand (Dagmar Krause) • Angebot und Nachfrage (Dagmar Krause) 1987 • The Music of Bulgaria (Balkana) • Habanera (John Harle) • Whatever (Danny Thompson) 1988 • • • • • • • •

Nazakat & Salamat Ali (Nazakat & Salamat Ali) Worker's Playtime (Billy Bragg) The Forest is Crying (The Trio Bulgarka) Kaira (Toumani Diabate) Songhai (Ketama, Toumani Diabate and Danny Thompson) These Knees Have Seen The World (The Dinner Ladies) Country Cooking (Brotherhood of Breath) Miss America (Mary Margaret O'Hara) (Uncredited)[15]

1989 • Orpheus Ascending (Ivo Papasov and his Bulgarian Wedding Band) • Some Other Time (June Tabor)

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1990s 1990 • Procedure (The Blackgirls) 1991 • Happy (The Blackgirls) • Balkanology (Ivo Papasov and his Bulgarian Wedding Band) • The Watchman (The Watchman) 1992 • Trans-Danubian Swineherd's Music (Orbestra) 1994 • Songhai 2 (Ketama, Toumani Diabate and Danny Thompson) 1996 • ¡Cubanismo! (¡Cubanismo!) • Djelika (Toumani Diabaté) 1997 • Cuba Linda (Alfredo Rodriguez) • Malembe (¡Cubanismo!) 1998 • • • • • • •

Reencarnation (¡Cubanismo!) Bareback (The Hank Dogs) Double Barrel (Jazz Jamaica) Dear Enemy (Dana and Karen Kletter) The McGarrigle Hour (Kate & Anna McGarrigle) The Bones Of All Men (Philip Pickett) Dew Drop Out (The Yockamo All-stars)

1999 • Mardi Gras Mambo (¡Cubanismo!) • Kulanjan (Taj Mahal and Toumani Diabate) • Social Studies (Loudon Wainwright III)

2000s 2002 • Half Smile (The Hank Dogs) 2004 • Private Astronomy (Geoff Muldaur's Futuristic Ensemble) • Mares Profundos (Virginia Rodrigues) 2005 • London '66-'67 Pink Floyd (recorded 1967, released 2005) 2007 • Breathe with Me (Athena)

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References [1] http:/ / www. joeboyd. co. uk/ [2] Boyd, Joe, White Bicycles - Making Music in the 1960s, Serpent's Tail, 2006. ISBN 1-85242-910-0 [3] Interview with Joe Boyd by Richie Unterberger (http:/ / www. richieunterberger. com/ boydfolk. html), accessed 2007-02-26 [4] Boyd, 2006, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, pp. 21–27. [5] Boyd, 2006, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, pp. 96–107. [6] Boyd, 2006, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, pp. 109–117. [7] Boyd, 2006, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, pp. 143–166. [8] Boyd, 2006, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, pp. 191–202. [9] Boyd, 2006, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, pp. 166–170. [10] Boyd, 2006, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, pp. 235–238. [11] Boyd, 2006, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, p. 238. [12] Independent Music Awards - 7th Annual Judges (http:/ / www. independentmusicawards. com/ ima_new/ imajudges2008. asp) [15] Larry Crane, "Interview with Joe Boyd", Tape Op, July/Aug 2007

Further reading • Boyd, Joe, White Bicycles - Making Music in the 1960s, Serpent's Tail. 2006. ISBN 1-85242-910-0

External links • Joe Boyd Official Website (http://www.joeboyd.co.uk/) • Joe Boyd interviewed on The Current (http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/03/28/joe_boyd/ ) • PUNKCAST#1129 (http://punkcast.com/1129) Video of 'White Bicycles' reading in NYC, Mar 28 2007. (RealPlayer, mp4) • Joe Boyd interviewed about Nick Drake (http://www.podst.ru/?area=posts&id=1680) • 2011 Interview about White Bicycles, Hannibal Records, and live show with Robyn Hitchcock (http:// johnsevencollection.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/profile-joe-boyd/)

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Gabrielle Drake

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Gabrielle Drake Gabrielle Drake Born

30 March 1944 Lahore, British India

Residence

Much Wenlock, Shropshire

Nationality British Alma mater Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Occupation Film, television and stage actress Television

UFO

Spouse(s)

Louis de Wett

Relatives

Nick Drake (brother)

Gabrielle Drake (born 30 March 1944) is a British actress who was born in Lahore, British India and has lived in several Far Eastern countries. She became well known for her appearance in the television series UFO. Her brother was the musician Nick Drake.

Life and career Drake attended Edgbaston College for Girls, Wycombe Abbey School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). She is a classically-trained actress with experience in Shakespearean plays, but first gained wider attention for her portrayal of Lieutenant Gay Ellis in the 1970 science fiction television series UFO, in which her costume consisted of a silver suit and a purple wig.[] In the series, the character of Lt Ellis is stationed on Moonbase, which is Earth's first line of defence against invading flying saucers. Drake appeared in roughly half the 26 episodes produced, leaving the series during a break in the production to pursue other acting opportunities. In the early 1970s, she auditioned for the part of Jo Grant in Doctor Who, reaching the final shortlist of three. Drake's film appearances include There's a Girl in My Soup (1970) and Au Pair Girls (1972). Her other television appearances include The Avengers (1967), Coronation Street (as Inga Olsen in 1967, and Vanessa in 2009), The Saint (1968), The Brothers (1972–74, in a regular leading role), The Kelly Monteith Show (1979–80), a made-for-TV version of The Importance of Being Earnest (1985), Crossroads (1985–87, as motel boss Nicola Freeman) and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2003–05) as the protagonist's mother. In 1975, she appeared as Madeline Bassett in the original London cast of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn musical Jeeves.

Gabrielle Drake

Personal life Drake lives in Much Wenlock, Shropshire and continues to perform in theatre.[citation needed] She can be heard accompanying her brother Nick on a number of songs that he recorded privately, and which have since been released on the album Family Tree.

Selected filmography • • • • • • • •

Crossplot (1969) Connecting Rooms (1970) There's a Girl in My Soup (1970) Suburban Wives (1971) Au Pair Girls (1972) Commuter Husbands (1973) All About a Prima Ballerina (1980) The Steal (1995)

Television roles • • • • • • • • • • • •

Riviera Police (one episode, 1965) The Avengers (one episode, "The Hidden Tiger", produced in January 1967) UFO (1969–70) Man at the Top (one episode, "Join the Human Race", 1970) The Brothers (1972–74) The New Avengers (one episode, "Dead Men Are Dangerous", 1977) The Professionals (1978) The Kelly Monteith Show (1979-80) Number 10 (one episode, 1983) Crossroads (1985–87) The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2003–05) Doctors (2011)

References Bibliography • Boyd, Joe (2006). White Bicycles – Making Music in the 1960s. Serpent's Tail. ISBN 1-85242-910-0. • Dann, Trevor (2006). Darker Than The Deepest Sea: The Search For Nick Drake. London: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-81520-6.

External links • Gabrielle Drake (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236907/) at the Internet Movie Database

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Robert Kirby

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Robert Kirby Robert Kirby

Background information Birth name

Robert Bruce Kirby

Born

16 April 1948 Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire

Died

3 October 2009 (aged 61) London United Kingdom

Genres

Folk rock, progressive rock

Occupations

Arranger, musician

Instruments

Keyboards

Years active

1960s–2009

Labels

A&M, Island

Associated acts

Nick Drake, Strawbs

Robert Kirby (16 April 1948 – 3 October 2009)[] was a British-born arranger of string sections for rock and folk music. He was best known for his work on the Nick Drake albums, Five Leaves Left and Bryter Layter, but also worked with Vashti Bunyan, Elton John, Ralph McTell, Strawbs, Paul Weller and Elvis Costello.

Early life He was educated at Bishop's Stortford College an independent school in Hertfordshire, and then the University of Cambridge.

At Cambridge Patrick Humphries' book Way To Blue gives some details of Kirby's time at university. He sang in a group called 'The Gentle Power of Song'. His tutor once told him that his compositions sounded like a breakfast cereal commercial. This was intended as an insult, but Kirby took this as his high praise: "As good as that, eh?" Kirby went to Caius College, Cambridge and made friends with Paul Wheeler. They were both members of the Caius Breakfast Club, also called "The Loungers". There were few rules. You had to have a Loungers' breakfast on Sundays, and 'stand by ye gate once a day and observe what strange creatures God hath made'. There was a rule that permitted an outsider (the 'Oddefellowe') to become a member. Robert and Paul were both friends with Nick Drake so they invited him to be the Oddefellowe. There is a line in Drake's song "Way To Blue" which seems to echo one

Robert Kirby of the rules of the Loungers: "We will wait at your gate, hoping like the blind..."

The May Ball Kirby recruited eight musicians (seven women and one man) to play alongside Nick Drake at the Caius May Ball. Kirby wore evening dress, and the seven women wore black ankle-length dresses with white feather boas. They performed in the library. Four of the songs were with the string orchestra and a couple of others were Drake solo. After every third song, they played classical music (Leopold Mozart and Tomaso Albinoni).

Five Leaves Left When Joe Boyd recruited Drake to record an album, he already had a string arranger in mind, Richard A. Hewson. Drake rejected the few Hewson arrangements produced and announced that he already had a friend at university who could do a better job—Kirby. Drake had decided to leave university without completing his final year. When Kirby was offered the contract to arrange music for an entire album, he, too, gave up Cambridge university. Though Kirby arranged and conducted strings for the majority of Five Leaves, Harry Robinson was commissioned to arrange the strings for the centerpiece song, "River Man". "The first strong memory I have of Nick was at the second or third session for Five Leaves Left. Richard Hewson, a well known arranger, and a fifteen piece orchestra had been brought in to arrange Nick's songs. Nick started getting hotter and hotter under the collar. He was very young and he had struck me as a person you could push about -- some people in a recording session will do whatever you tell them -- but he was getting quietly more and more aggravated, and in the end he dug his heels in and dismissed the arrangements. He said he'd get this friend at Cambridge, Robert Kirby, he thought would be much more sympathetic to what he was doing. Robert had never before done anything in his life in a recording studio. But two weeks later we booked him together with a bunch of musicians- a smaller bunch than the first time, I remember... We were flabbergasted. He was so good." - John Wood, sound engineer for Five Leaves Left

Life as an arranger Although Kirby had recorded arrangements for over 40 albums by 1978, it was a struggle to make ends meet. In the end he decided to work in marketing industry instead. He was rumoured still to have his scores for Drake's records in his mother's potting shed. (He also was for three years, 1975-1978 one of the two keyboard players for Strawbs, touring the UK and internationally, and getting some composing credits on the albums Deep Cuts, Deadlines and Burning for You). He also did some further arranging for Strawbs with Baroque & Roll (2001), Déjà Fou (2004) and Dancing to the Devil's Beat (2009). He talks extensively about his career in Nick Awde's study Mellotron, subtitled The Machine and the Musicians That Revolutionised Rock (2008) - the book opens with a quote from him.

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Robert Kirby

Public performances of Nick Drake's music On 2 July 2005, Kirby conducted an 18-piece orchestra in Manhattan's Central Park for a show of Drake's music, using his original scores. Five Leaves Left was performed in its entirety as well as excerpts from Bryter Later and Made To Love Magic. The show starred guitarist Josh Max and singer Julie James of the Manhattan-based group The Maxes, and was attended by 3,000 Drake fans from all over the US.

Death Robert Kirby died in a West London hospital following emergency heart surgery after a short illness on 3 October 2009. He was 61 years old.[1]

Legacy His son Henry Kirby is also actively involved in music. His rock band, The Absolutes, have played in various venues in London.

Discography • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left (1969) Nick Drake: Bryter Layter (1970) Vashti Bunyan: Just Another Diamond Day (1970) Bernie Taupin: Bernie Taupin (1970) Shelagh McDonald: Stargazer (1971) Audience: The House On The Hill (1971) Gillian McPherson: Poets and Painters and Performers of Blues (1971) Ralph McTell: You Well-Meaning Brought Me Here (1971) Keith Christmas: Pigmy (1971) Tim Hart and Maddy Prior: Summer Solstice (1971) Cochise: So Far (1971) Steve Gibbons: Short Stories (1971) Andy Roberts: Nina and the Dream Tree (1971) John Kongos: John Kongos (1971) Spirogyra: St. Radigunds (1971) Elton John: Madman Across The Water (1971) Claggers: Chumley's Laughing Gear (1971) Strawbs: Grave New World (1972) David Ackles: American Gothic (1972) Mick Audsley: Dark and Devil Waters (1972) B.J. Cole: The New Hovering Dog (1972) David Elliott: David Elliott (1972) Dave Cousins: Two Weeks Last Summer (1972) Strawbs: Bursting at the Seams (1972) Mike Silver: Troubadour (1973) Lindsay DePaul: Surprise (1973) Steve Ashley: Stroll On (1974) Steve Ashley: Speedy Return (1975)

• John Cale: Helen of Troy (1975) • Gary Shearston: The Greatest Show on Earth (1975)

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Robert Kirby • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Richard Digance: Trading the Boards (1975) Chris DeBurgh: Spanish Train and Other Stories (1975) Strawbs: Deep Cuts (1976) Design: By Design (1976) (three tracks) Spriguns: Time Will Pass (1977) Sandy Denny: Rendez Vous (1977) Strawbs: Burning for You (1977) Strawbs: Deadlines (1978) Arthur Brown: Chisholm in my Bosom (1978) Richard and Linda Thompson: First Light (1978) Roger McGough: Summer with Monika (1978) Iain Matthews: Stealin' Home (1978) Elvis Costello: Almost Blue (1982) Nick Lowe: Nick Lowe and his Cowboy Outfit (1984) Any Trouble: Wrong Eng of the Race (1984) The London Symphony Orchestra: Screen Classics, Vol. 7 (1994) Catchers: Stooping to Fit (1998)

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Ben & Jason: Hello (1999) Steve Ashley: The Test of Time (1999) Paul Weller: Heliocentric (2000) Acoustic Strawbs: Baroque & Roll (2001) Flemming: Starry Night (2001) Flemming: Old Boys, Chances for tomorrow (2002) Nick Drake: Made to Love Magic (2004) Strawbs: Déjà Fou (2004) Vashti Bunyan: Lookaftering (2005) Steve Ashley: Live in Concert (2006) The Magic Numbers: Those The Brokes (2006) a balladeer: Panama (2006) Linda Thompson: Versatile Heart (2007) Steve Ashley: Time and Tide (2007) Luke Jackson: ...And Then Some (2008) Strawbs: Dancing to the Devil's Beat (2009) James Edge And The Mindstep: In The Hills, The Cities (2010) The Magic Numbers: The Runaway (2010)

References [1] Nick Drake's string arranger Robert Kirby dies (http:/ / www. nme. com/ news/ nick-drake/ 47730) NME. Retrieved on 9 October 2009.

External links • "Robert Kirby obituary, Musical arranger best known for his work with Nick Drake" (http://www.guardian.co. uk/music/2009/oct/07/robert-kirby-obituary). The Guardian. 2009-10-07. • "Robert Kirby: Musical arranger who worked with Nick Drake and Elvis Costello" (http://www.independent. co.uk/news/obituaries/robert-kirby-musical-arranger-who-worked-with-nick-drake-and-elvis-costello-1811607. html). The Independent. 2009-10-30.

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John Wood

John Wood John Wood is an English sound engineer and producer, best known for his work with Fairport Convention, John Martyn, Cat Stevens, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, the Incredible String Band, Pink Floyd, Nico and Squeeze.

Career After first working for Decca recording studios Wood honed his skills at London based Levy Sound and Oriole studios before he and Geoff Frost opened Sound Techniques during the winter of 1964. The studios were housed within a converted dairy in Old Church Street, Chelsea and soon went on to become one of the country's first independent professional music recording studios. In 1966, he met Joe Boyd, who worked with him closely. The two formed a partnership, whereby Wood tended to the record's sound, while Boyd looked after its musical direction. However, Wood, well known for his forthright approach, often gave his opinion on musical direction. According to Boyd: "professional session musicians regarded the pair of us with curiosity: the normal deference of engineer towards producer didn't seem to apply. He would give a withering sneer...I would tell him just do it and not give me any shit. If my resolve melted in the face of his contempt, it probably wasn't such a good idea in the first place."[1] Wood engineered all three of Nick Drake's albums, and was one of the few people the notoriously withdrawn singer trusted.[1] According to Drake's biographer Trevor Dann "He and Nick hit it off immediately, Woody the perfectionist soundman, Nick the perfectionist musician."[2] He currently lives in Scotland, with his longtime partner Pam, and remains in the business as an engineer and producer.[2]

Notes [1] Boyd, 205 [2] Dann, 58

Sources • Boyd, Joe (2006). White Bicycles – Making Music in the 1960s, Serpent's Tail. ISBN 1-85242-910-0 • Dann, Trevor (2006). Darker Than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake, Da Capo Press. London. 2006. ISBN 0-306-81520-6

External links • Wood's official site (http://www.analogmixing.net)

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