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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.
Jul 4, 2023 · Almost 50 years after his death, Nick Drake is more popular than ever. With a new biography and covers album of his songs out, Neil Armstrong sifts truth from fiction.
Jun 6, 2023 · It is Monday, 25 November, 1974 and, as the author explains in his exhaustive new biography, “the magically gifted, frustratingly unfathomable” singer-songwriter has decided to swap the family home...
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 26....
- Fernando Neira
Nov 25, 2014 · It could be that Nick Drake does not exist at all.” How did such an elusive character become famous, decades after his death? During the 1970s and 1980s, he had a small following, mostly...
- Jennie Rothenberg Gritz
Nov 25, 2014 · Nick Drake, the singer-songwriter who died 40 years ago, was not recognised in his lifetime. But his melancholy legend does his music a disservice, argues Alan Connor
Jun 17, 2023 · Nick Drake Rolling Stones. The singer-songwriter died by suicide aged 26, convinced he was a failure. The three albums he left behind tell a different story.
