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Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter, Pink Moon and Heaven Is A Wild Flower
Review by Martin Aston, Q, August 1990
RAISED BY UPPER-middle class parents in the Black Country, educated at public school and Cambridge, Nick Drake's life was never as comfortable as his upbringing suggested, ...

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Something else for Nick? An interview with Nick Drake
Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, March 1971
NICK DRAKE IS A SHY, INTROVERTED folk singer who is not usually known to speak unless it is absolutely necessary. But Nick is not the kind ...

Nick Drake: Bryter Layter
Review by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, March 1971
I GET THE FEELING that only a Joe Boyd-Paul Harris alliance could have produced such a superb album as this. And once again a great slice ...

Nick Drake: Bryter Later
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, March 1971
THIS IS A particularly difficult album to come to any firm conclusion on. For one thing the reaction it produced depends very much on the mood ...

Nick Drake: Pink Moon
Review by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, March 1972
ISLAND APPEARED to have forgotten about Nick Drake until he ambled into the offices one day and presented them with this album. No one knew he'd ...

Nick Drake: Pink Moon
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, May 1972
JOHN MARTYN told me about Nick Drake in ecstatic terms and so it seemed the natural thing to do, bag the album when it came in ...

Nick Drake: Requiem For A Solitary Man
Obituary by Nick Kent, NME, February 1975
ON OCTOBER 25th, 1974, at approximately six in the morning Nick Drake, a 26-yearold singer/songwriter, died from an overdose of Typtasol, an antidepressant, in the bedroom ...

Drake's Progress
Review and Interview by Len Brown, NME, August 1986
NICK DRAKE was one of Britain's finest folksingers. Now Hannibal Records have re-released his complete works – and included some previously unavailable songs. LEN BROWN assesses ...

Deja Vu: Nick Drake
Retrospective by Len Brown, NME, March 1989
Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left ...

Nick Drake: Way To Blue
Review by Mark Cooper, Mojo, June 1994
WHEN NICK DRAKE'S Five Leaves Left first came out in 1968, albums with gatefold sleeves by moody songwriters accompanied by orchestras were almost two a penny. ...

Hanging On A Star: In Memory of Nick Drake
Retrospective by Gerrie Lim, Big O, November 1994
HIS MUSIC IS as evocative and haunting as ever, though much of his life remains mysterious. Nick Drake died 20 years ago this month, on November ...

The Sad Ballad of Nick Drake
Essay by Mick Brown, Sunday Telegraph, July 1997
His records didn't sell while he lived. But since Nick Drake's untimely death he has become an icon. Mick Brown reports on a very English singer. ...

Nick Drake: Exiled From Heaven
Retrospective by Ian MacDonald, Mojo, January 2000
DURING THE ACADEMIC year of 1968-9, Cambridge University felt an alien influence from beyond its ancient facade of curtain walls and quiet quadrangles. Sober flag-stones peered ...

Nick Drake: Stranger To The World
Retrospective and Interview by Pete Paphides, Observer Music Monthly, April 2004
Nick Drake's rare talent was almost ignored in his brief lifetime. Since his suicide 30 years ago, his legend has grown and now the discovery of ...

Brighter Very Much Later: Nick Drake
Retrospective by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 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, ...

Nick Drake: Bryter Later (Island, 1970)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Observer, June 2004
THE CULT OF Nick Drake, posh Lost Boy of post-folk singer-songwriting, shows little sign of abating. That’s because his mellow, Colin Blunstone-ish burr of a voice ...

Nick Drake: Family Tree
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, July 2007
LISTEN TO NICK DRAKE with one ear and you'll hear a (self-)parody of the Sensitive Young Troubadour – the posh Poor Boy, long ways from his ...

Nick Drake's Black Eyed Dog
Comment by Kirk Silsbee, LA CityBeat, October 2007
HOW MANY of us wish we could have seen and heard Ellington's Jump For Joy musical at the Mayan Theatre, Charlie Parker at the Finale Club, ...