The Nick Drake Song Collection

Author : Nick Drake
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316340625
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remembered for a While written by Nick Drake and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid portrait of the English singer-songwriter and musician Nick Drake Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician, known for his acoustic guitar-based songs. Drake released only three complete albums -- Five Leaves Left (1969), Bryter Layter (1970), Pink Moon (1972) -- and was not well known before his death in 1974. Yet he gained a massive posthumous following, inspiring leading musicians such as R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and Robert Smith of The Cure and bands such as Coldplay and The Black Crowes. Forty years after Nick's death, Remembered for a While peels back some of the mystery surrounding his life. The book will feature gorgeous color photographs, as well as original letters and interviews with family and friends. As Nick's sister writes in the introduction, Remembered for a While will reveal "the poet, the musician, the friend, the son, the brother, who was also more than all of these together, and as indefinable as the morning mist." At long last, Remembered for a While paints a portrait of a visionary musician who inspired a fanatical following and whose legacy continues to inspire future generations of musicians -- and the lives of his fans.

Author : Peter Hogan
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857121243
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nick Drake: The Complete Guide to his Music written by Peter Hogan and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The indispensable consumers' guide to the music of Nick Drake. A thorough analysis of every officially released album by Drake, from the early albums that were largely overlooked at the time of their release in the late Sixties and early Seventies to more recent posthumous collections. Peter Hogan is among the few contemporary aficionados of Nick Drake who actually bought his records in the early Seventies when they were first released. He is an experienced music writer who has contributed to Melody Maker, Vox and Uncut, and is the author of books on The Doors, R.E.M. and The Velvet Underground.

Author : Amanda Petrusich
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826427901
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nick Drake's Pink Moon written by Amanda Petrusich and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how a tiny acoustic record (Pink Moon) has puttered and purred its way into a new millennium. Amanda Petrusich interviews producer Joe Boyd, string arranger Robert Kirby, and eventhe marketingteam behind the VW commercial.

Author : Patrick Humphries
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408841444
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nick Drake written by Patrick Humphries and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An exquisite portrait' MOJO 'A riveting account of the golden-boy genius' EVENING STANDARD Nick Drake was barely twenty-six years old when he died in 1974, but in his short lifetime he recorded three albums that are now recognised as classics: Five Leaves Left, Bryter Later and Pink Moon. Several decades after his death, he has amassed a huge following; his haunting songs cast a pervasive influence over the contemporary music scene, and many of today's most successful songwriters cite him as a major inspiration. In this unrivalled biography, Patrick Humphries offers real insight into the man behind the legend, through extensive interviews with family, friends and the musicians who knew and worked alongside him. This portrait of Nick Drake is an essential and uniquely personal account of his life and career. 'A rich, moving account of a troubled spirit, a mature biography of a briefly flickering talent unable to come to terms with the adult world ... The writing is zestful and intelligent and the text illuminating ... A literary memorial fit to stand alongside the songs' UNCUT

Author : Nick Drake
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 9780711981799
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Way to Blue written by Nick Drake and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nathan Wiseman-Trowse
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 178023211X
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nick Drake written by Nathan Wiseman-Trowse and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his death in 1974 at the age of twenty-six, singer-songwriter Nick Drake has gained a huge international audience and come to be thought of as the epitome of English romanticism. But while his small body of work has evoked poetic comparisons with Blake and Keats, closer inspection of Drake’s music reveals many global and cosmopolitan influences that confound his status as an archetypal English troubadour. In this book, Nathan Wiseman-Trowse unravels the myths surrounding Drake and his work and explores how ideas of Englishness have come to be intimately associated with the cult musician. Probing deeply into Drake’s music for clues, Wiseman-Trowse finds hints of the English landscape that Drake would have wandered through during his lifetime, but he also uncovers traces of blues, jazz, and eastern mysticism that hint at a broader conception of English national identity in the late 1960s, one far removed from parochial nostalgia. Wiseman-Trowse then looks at how Drake’s music has been framed since his death, showing how Drake has been situated as a particular kind of English artist that integrates American counterculture, the English class system, and a nostalgic reimagining of the hippie era. An appealing story of folk music and English national identity, this book is essential reading for any fan of Nick Drake.

Author : Katherine Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107063647
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter written by Katherine Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion explores the historical and theoretical contexts of the singer-songwriter tradition, and includes case studies of singer-songwriters from Thomas d'Urfey through to Kanye West.

Author : Trevor Dann
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306815206
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darker Than the Deepest Sea written by Trevor Dann and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2006-09-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the life and career of the English singer and songwriter who died of a drug overdose at the age of twenty-six in 1974.

Author : Joe Boyd
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847652166
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Bicycles written by Joe Boyd and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the '60s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running the coolest club in London, the UFO; when a bunch of club regulars called Pink Floyd recorded their first single, Joe Boyd was the producer; when a young songwriter named Nick Drake wanted to give his demo tape to someone, he chose Joe Boyd. More than any previous '60s music autobiography, Joe Boyd's White Bicycles offers the real story of what it was like to be there at the time. His greatest coup is bringing to life the famously elusive figure of Nick Drake - the first time he's been written about by anyone who knew him well. As well as the '60s heavy-hitters, this book also offers wonderfully vivid portraits of a whole host of other musicians: everyone from the great jazzman Coleman Hawkins to the folk diva Sandy Denny, Lonnie Johnson to Eric Clapton, The Incredible String Band to Fairport Convention.

Author : Amanda Petrusich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441190414
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nick Drake's Pink Moon written by Amanda Petrusich and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pink Moon explores how Nick Drake's third and final album has puttered and purred its way into a new millennium. Features interviews with producer Joe Boyd, string arranger Robert Kirby, and even the marketing team behind the VW Cabrio commercial that launched the album to platinum status more than thirty years after its release.