“British folk-rock troubadour Nick Drake died from an overdose of anti-depressants in 1974. He was only twenty-six and had recorded just three proper albums — 1969’s Five Leaves Left, 1970’s Bryter Layter, 1972’s Pink Moon — and a pile of scattered tracks. But when the tape recorder was turned on, he had a batting average […]”
“The backside of Nick Drake's headstone, wedged deep into the earth of Tanworth-in-Arden's parish church graveyard, reads: "Now we rise and we are everywhere." The words were penned by Drake in 1974; 30 years later, they seem jarringly prophetic. Like nearly all prematurely buried cult figures, Nick Drake is reinvented each time he is rediscovered. In 2000, the sheepish, astral musings of "Pink Mo”
