Brighter Very Much Later: Nick Drake
Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 20 May 2004
POSTHUMOUS ACCLAIM is not uncommon in rock - "death sells" and all that - but the clamour surrounding the English singer-songwriter Nick Drake gets more intense, and more puzzling, as time goes by.
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