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     • Almost 50 years after dying from an overdose, the folky singer-songwriter Nick Drake is more popular than ever.
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   How old was Nick Drake when he died?

   • A comprehensive official biography and a double tribute album reignite interest in the ultra-sensitive bard who died at 26. This summer he would have turned 75 A photograph of Nick Drake that was used for the cover of his album ‘Bryter Layer’ (1970). Nigel Waymouth

   Nick Drake: The mystery of the saddest, loneliest boy is still alive

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   Is Nick Drake still alive?

   • Since his death, Nick Drake’s legacy has been thoughtfully shepherded, with selected reissues, an incongruous but beguiling Volkswagen TV advert and 2014’s handsome coffee table book, Remembered For A While. As Morton Jack attests, he is now in exulted, once unthinkable territory alongside the likes of The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan.

   The truth about Nick Drake, the most mythologised man in music

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   Who is Nick Drake?

   • Almost 50 years after dying from an overdose, the folky singer-songwriter Nick Drake is more popular than ever. With a new biography and covers album of his songs out, Neil Armstrong sifts truth from fiction. An open-top car glides through the moonlit Californian night, its passengers gazing out at the star-filled sky.

   The enduring mystery of a British icon - BBC

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   Did Nick Drake look like a romantic poet?

   • Nick Drake 'looked striking, like a Romantic poet'. Photograph: Estate of Keith Morris/Redferns/Getty On the cover of his 1969 debut album, the English singer-songwriter Nick Drake gazes out of an upstairs window in a derelict house, a faintly quizzical smile on his lips.

   ‘It’s heartbreaking that I didn’t think of a way to make him happy

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   Did Drake ever reissue his albums?

   • Following a 1975 NME article by Nick Kent, Island Records said they had no plans to reissue Drake's albums, but in 1979 Rob Partridge joined Island Records as press officer and commissioned the release of the Fruit Tree box set.

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   What does Nick Drake say in the life?

   • Nick Drake: The Life underscores his family’s decades of grief and enduring belief in his music. It also amplifies the words inscribed on his headstone in the St Mary Magdalene Church, Tanworth-in-Arden: “Now we rise and we are everywhere.” Nick Drake: The Life is published on 8 June (John Murray, £30)

   The truth about Nick Drake, the most mythologised man in music

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3. www.irishtimes.com › culture › music‘It’s heartbreaking that I didn’t think of a way to make him ...

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   Jun 17, 2023 · The singer-songwriter died by suicide aged 26, convinced he was a failure. The three albums he left behind tell a different story. Nick Drake 'looked striking, like a Romantic poet'....

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   Aug 15, 2023 · Nick Drake: The mystery of the saddest, loneliest boy is still alive. A comprehensive official biography and a double tribute album reignite interest in the ultra-sensitive bard who died at...

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   Jul 9, 2023 · The life of Nick Drake ended 49 years ago in the saddest of ways, with a deep depression followed by an overdose. At 26 he had made three albums of fitfully gorgeous folk music without ever spending a week in the charts.

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   On 25 November 1974, Drake was found dead at the age of 26 due to an overdose of antidepressants. 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.

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   Jun 6, 2023 · Drake was just 26 when he died following an overdose – ruled suicide at the inquest – of the Trypitzol pills designed to treat the depression that had entrenched his musical career and ...

9. www.pressreader.com › uk › featuresGorgeous tribute to a tragic genius who died too young

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   Jul 26, 2024 · This November it will be 50 years since English folk singer Nick Drake took his own life by overdosing on antidepres­sants, aged 26. He’d released three albums of fragile yet boldly inventive music, selling fewer than 10,000 copies.