Nick's music has been special to me since around 1980. My son took his life ten years ago, aged twenty and we played Time Has Told Me at his funeral. It was the most emotional gift we could give him. Nick's music and lyrics touch so many in so many ways. Not many can do this
I've never lost the love for Nick's music..... I've never felt anything but pure joy and emotion from from this unique talent! Once you discover him.... he becomes a true friend ❤
I've loved Nick's music since the mid-eighties, and it never ages. It is beautiful, timeless. 'Bryter Layter' is my favourite Drake album - 'City Clock' and 'Northern Sky' are simply manna.
Just wanted to say thank you for posting this and keeping it up after all this time! I’ve watched this at least 20 times! Truly one of my favorite videos on UA-cam! Thanks again for this, and love you Nick! God bless you wherever you are!
It is important and necessary that his music be played, listened to and celebrated because it is a rare and special kind of music even among the (so called) greats. His songs have genuine poetic presence and never fails to inspire or make one think about what is being sung and played. The music itself is a clear reflection of him... in that it is deceptively complex, whilst appearing simple.
It certainly seems like a management failure to me. He needed the right venues with the right audiences, and they would have grown and grown. But neither the labels nor his own manager, if he had one, got him into those places with those audiences. He needed audience quiet, like at classical concerts, or like a late night speciality side stage at a modern music festival, where people who know will flock to an intimate small stage concert. With enough practice performing in public, his confidence would have grown to handle the experience, to be more talkative to the fans and so on. The time between songs retuning his guitar could have been reduced with guitar techs doing the work for him and readying up a fresh guitar for the next song. But the 1970s was a poorer world, and a poorer Britain, in terms of those kind of resources for artists playing live. It seems to me that there was always sadness in his songs, and an awareness of death, even while singing about happier themes. Which isn't to say that he wanted to die, but that his whole outlook was clouded by the awareness of death, like for the Teacher of Wisdom in Ecclesiastes.
Love Nick's tender, emotive lyrics and voice. I was once told I had "2 protective layers less than most people". I think the same could have been said about Nick.
@@hgrunenwald Have you ever heard, if you don't have something nice to say then don't say anything at all? Why be a dick? Go away. You sound like you're a child.
Thanks for uploading this gem of the legend ND. One of the saddest stories in rock/folk. I wonder what might've been had he not passed. He barely whet our appetites before he left us.
I've only just discovered Nick Drake. Through a favourite song of mine from the mid 80's, Dream Academy's Life in a Northern Town. His music is so beautiful, deep & meaningful. 2022, and he is still acquireing fans♥️.
Can't believe it's taken this 71 yo music fanatic so long to discover & explore Nick Drake!!!~Thank-You I feel ya' man having dealt with being diagnosed at 19 as manic-depressive...ps also long-time secret/kinda'' singer songwriter...i feel a deep connection with you man RIP!!~!
it's Amazing that there are very few artists about today and in history that whenever you introduce a friend they become hooked ... Nick was definately one of them. Fragile, beautiful and life changing... brilliant
I was on a boozy holiday with friends once, and one of them got so drunk the night before he couldn’t get out of bed to go to the beach, so I put on Five Leaves Left for him as we went out, as I thought it not too loud and hectic for a hungover guy. When we came back from the beach about 7 hours later he had simply sat there drinking water and listening to the album on repeat for the whole time. He was completely hooked.
THANK YOU POSTER!!! Nick Drake, for those of us who've discovered him, is a real 'Love At First Sight (Listen) kinda thing... Literally NOTHING ELSE sounds like Nick Drake... (His TRAGEDY is that he passed away before his music was accessed and understood...) How HE would have coped with the ADULATION is anyone's guess... xx SF
Always thought it was a tragic story that he never knew how popular and beloved his music became. Pink Moon is one of my favourite songs ever. Such a talented guitarist, so gifted
Thanks for sharing this Pete B. I missed it when it was first broadcast in 2004. I was actually at the cinema as it was broadcast with a stunningly beautiful woman, now my wife, watching Brad Pitt as Achilles in 'Troy.' I made the right sacrifice at the time. It is good to have actually heard it after all these years.
I've loved Nick Drake's music since John Martyn's Solid Air. It's so beautiful, with a rare purity that touches my soul deeply. In interview, John Martyn said that Nick was highly ambitious and ill-equipped to deal with failure. I think that's true. He had had so much success in all his previous endeavours, eg, how he excelled in school in all aspects. He couldn't cope with what he perceived as failure. It's terribly sad. If he'd just waited...
Superb pot puri of every relevance in ND life , it's doubtful we will get a better insight into this enigmatic genius with a troubled soul . Of course the cruelest twist is painful touring and promotion would be mitigated today with technology and fame and fortune would be laid at his feet. Reality was more brutal as he died without adulation or critical acclaim but left this world with a breathtaking legacy of timeless acoustic alchemy .
Andre Bowen First heard Nick Drake when watching an episode of Heartbeat on ITV3, this beautiful, moving, haunting song was being played as background music. I thought I must find out what is that song and discovered it was 'When Day is Done' by Nick Drake. Been a huge fan ever since. Being an amateur guitarist, compared to Nick, enables me to listen in awe to his sublime use of chord changes in tracks such as 'Riverman'. He is one of the few song artists that can reduce me to tears. Such a travesty of life he is no longer around.
Slightly different genre of music but have you listened to Jeff Buckley much at all? if not you might enjoy his album Grace...I recommend digging through Bert Jansch's back catalogue too ,his latter stuff with Hope Sandoval from mazzy Star called ' Barvarian Fruitbread' it's a gorgeous album.
Imagine someone you know tossing a copy of Five Leaves Left onto your bed, no great ceremony, just “here you go”.. and then you see them on the sleeve and listen to it.. if that doesn’t floor you nothing will..
If you have heard the "Family Tree" album, where ND covers a few songs by Jackson C Frank, when he also was an unknown genius at the time (only made one album, produced by none other than Paul Simon)... Check his stuff out. "Milk and Honey", and "My name is Carnival" (the latter was featured in "Joker" the movie. Joker's stage name was "Carnival")
For Nick to assume he’d be this massive star and sell millions is arrogant and egotistical, coupled with the fact he didn’t promote himself. Whether he liked it or not you have to play live, give interviews and play the game. The fact the music is still beautiful is all the more tragic. Nicks strikes me as very precious, who wasn’t prepared to play the game and thought the music would speak for itself and the money would come rolling in, tragically for him in the 60’s and 70’s you had to work bloody hard to get your music out there and jump through every hoop. I get the sense that Nick hitting out on the people who tried to promote him is really Nick beating himself up for not having either the confidence or desire to push himself. A troubled soul. The music lasts.
@@gonzalocastelo2230 even people with thick skins almost get killed by the industry if they make it. Nick Drake had a crazy level of support from his label... But he needed the temperament of John Martyn, if you're a introvert and try to play live on your own, you can't hide.
I read once a list of “most underrated albums” and five leaves left came top. Their flippant, joking view was, if they’d made an album this good, and no one liked it, they’d also consider suicide. But there’s a grain of truth in that. It must’ve fucked with his head to put out such genius, and then having to question yourself because it’s not commercially successful.
I wish he would have lived.. And I wish that he knows his life was never in vain.. He meant so much.. His short life meant very much, and to so many people.. I just wish somehow that he knows that..
I have a feeling Nick didn’t record to a ‘click track’ because TRUE emotion ebbs and flows. That’s why most music today is LIFELESS quantized and dull..devoid of emotion. Edit 26:43 that’s an experiment that doesn’t sound right...Nashville-ize Nick. Nope, the horn section and Nick are going in 2 VERY DIFFERENT divergent directions. The horns are trying to pull things up and make everything cheery a la ‘shiny happy people’...mistake missed take CUT delete the F-ing horn section
Because the 1960s and early 70s had a crazy, crazy level of musical talent in the UK. Nick Drake would have had to have gigged three or four times a week to get his name out there, and compete... he didn't want to do that. Plus by the early 70s the folk scene was imploding apart from the big players, a lot of bands struggled and had to give up. He had little chance of making it 'big'
@@mikethebloodthirsty Well, aye, it was all prog and glam. Only Cat Stevens made it through in the UK, plus some other bits by John Martyn, Ralph McTell and Al Stewart.
that's amazing. i've known nick for a while, i've listened to his music for years now, and i've been researching nick drake for a while now, and i learn every day of another well-known singer-songwriter covering his songs, lisa hannigan, norah jones, etc. it's quite amazing
Best ones are the ones that play closest to Nick as possible, not making their own version. Own version Nick Drake songs are simply not good. People can`t fake a Nick Drake song.
@@jamesdana1273 I have no guitar skills, but Nick should just be left to Rest In Peace without his songs being mutilated. Only Josh Turner should be allowed to play them
So the first thing we hear is an American actor, then an awful cover version of one of Nick's best songs. Then another American. Typical BBC, completely disrespecting the British artist and British people.
@@michaelwynn8019 Without Davey Graham (a British guitarist) there would be no Folk music revival scene of the late 1950's. And without Davey Graham, there would not have been the same Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, or Ralph McTell, and without them, there might not have been any Nick Drake. Nothing to do with any Americans sir. In fact, Paul Simon was just a struggling busker who came to London and learned his craft playing alongside those I mentioned, in Les Cousins Folk Club, before he made it 'big' in America. Please learn your history before typing any more rubbish thanks.
@@DjNikGnashers You're telling me absolutely nothing I don't know there. It doesn't negate my point about Joe Boyd and your apparent ignorance about him.
@@michaelwynn8019 No need for the insult. I know all about Joe Boyd, he was an American writer/producer. He had nothing to do with Davey Graham travelling around the middle east in the 1950's, and then passing on his knowledge and inventive tuning DADGAD for the 6 string guitar, to the ppl I mentioned. This was the English Folk scene beginnings, nothing to do with America.
Oh man. His lyrics sound like high school kid poetry and the rhyming is so simplistic. There is a cloyingly sappy element to all of it that seems so forced, but what I do find genuine and realistic-sounding is the account by the friend who said that this Nick Drake guy was so mad about not being famous and commercially successful. I think his music is more popular now than it was when he was alive solely because there used to be good music to compete with back then. Now, there really isn’t. Despite what I think of his lyrics and contrived vocal sound, I definitely like his music more than any mumble rap or crappy Gen Z pop.
His music wasn't more popular back in the days because he barely played live and back in those times musicians got famous if they toured a lot and their music were played on the radio. Since he basically didn't perform his songs, and none of his songs were released as a single and they weren't on the radio, it was quite clear he couldn't become more well known at that time. His talent was obvious even in the beginning because Joe Boyd wouldn't have cared about him if his music wasn't good enough, he helped him to release records and play his music as he wanted. Part of the problem was also that Nick didn't have any managers who would organise him concerts that were intimate, almost like a classic music concert where people sit and listen - instead he played his quiet songs to noisy teenagers in cafe bars that were not the ideal place for his songs, so he after a short while he stopped playing at concerts altogether. He already had an enthusiastic small fanbase even during his lifetime and when more famous musicians started mention him as inspirations he became a lot more well known. It's not a coincidence either that with the help of internet and radio stations people fall in love with his music more and more. Because if the music is brilliant people will find it and love it.
...but you're logic doesn't add up. If Nick is more popular now "cos "modern music's rubbish" then surely today we'd be awash with a resurgence of the bands you claim out-classed him to begin with. Great music doesn't need to be spoon-fed - some just takes longer to digest and appreciate.
Nick's music has been special to me since around 1980. My son took his life ten years ago, aged twenty and we played Time Has Told Me at his funeral. It was the most emotional gift we could give him. Nick's music and lyrics touch so many in so many ways. Not many can do this
A big hug
Sorry for your loss George.
sorry for your loss george
What’s your son’s name, George? 💐
Sorry for your loss
I was hooked from the first few notes I ever heard. Nick Drake is amazing.
I've never lost the love for Nick's music..... I've never felt anything but pure joy and emotion from from this unique talent! Once you discover him.... he becomes a true friend ❤
Francoise Hardy's autobiography has a few pages on Nick Drake, more than she wrote about Jagger and Dylan.
I've loved Nick's music since the mid-eighties, and it never ages. It is beautiful, timeless. 'Bryter Layter' is my favourite Drake album - 'City Clock' and 'Northern Sky' are simply manna.
Just wanted to say thank you for posting this and keeping it up after all this time! I’ve watched this at least 20 times! Truly one of my favorite videos on UA-cam! Thanks again for this, and love you Nick! God bless you wherever you are!
God bless his spirit. The music of Nick Drake will continue to live on and grow.
R.I.P
🙏❤️.x
It is important and necessary that his music be played, listened to and celebrated because it is a rare and special kind of music even among the (so called) greats. His songs have genuine poetic presence and never fails to inspire or make one think about what is being sung and played. The music itself is a clear reflection of him... in that it is deceptively complex, whilst appearing simple.
His gorgeous music, his beautiful guitar playing, and his wonderful voice. Stunning. And moves me to tears at every listen ❤
Remember listening to this st the time, fair play to Brad, class act.
Remember listening to this when it was broadcast. I was high and got quite emotional (it was the weed...mostly!) Thanks for uploading.
It certainly seems like a management failure to me. He needed the right venues with the right audiences, and they would have grown and grown. But neither the labels nor his own manager, if he had one, got him into those places with those audiences. He needed audience quiet, like at classical concerts, or like a late night speciality side stage at a modern music festival, where people who know will flock to an intimate small stage concert. With enough practice performing in public, his confidence would have grown to handle the experience, to be more talkative to the fans and so on. The time between songs retuning his guitar could have been reduced with guitar techs doing the work for him and readying up a fresh guitar for the next song. But the 1970s was a poorer world, and a poorer Britain, in terms of those kind of resources for artists playing live.
It seems to me that there was always sadness in his songs, and an awareness of death, even while singing about happier themes. Which isn't to say that he wanted to die, but that his whole outlook was clouded by the awareness of death, like for the Teacher of Wisdom in Ecclesiastes.
Failure to Thrive Syndrome
Excellent points.
Love Nick's tender, emotive lyrics and voice. I was once told I had "2 protective layers less than most people". I think the same could have been said about Nick.
He has a documentary called a skin too few on youtube.
Oh geez. Like you hadn’t already known about the documentary and quotes by his sister in it. What a coinky-dink.
@@hgrunenwald Have you ever heard, if you don't have something nice to say then don't say anything at all?
Why be a dick? Go away. You sound like you're a child.
@@richardyoung9718 Freedom of speech, tool.
Thanks Brad.
That was enlightening.
Nick Drake, Donovan, Shawn Phillips, Bert Jansch, Roy Harper, John Martyn are the soundtrack of my days
Shawn Phillips, Song for Mr. c, although the whole medley on the album was great.
On listening to this again, I'm making plans to revisit Tanworth in Arden this week.
Did you make it...visited over 20 years ago to pay my respects...such a beautiful place
@@ENGABU1 Yes I did, I go on the day of his passing as well.
His was such a talent... there's not many people who inspire... and WOW is his work
Thanks for uploading this gem of the legend ND. One of the saddest stories in rock/folk. I wonder what might've been had he not passed. He barely whet our appetites before he left us.
Sandy Denny is another incredibly sad story ,what a waste of two beautiful young I incredibly talented people .
Jackson C Frank,TIm Hardin😢@@sophiew1967
I've only just discovered Nick Drake. Through a favourite song of mine from the mid 80's, Dream Academy's Life in a Northern Town. His music is so beautiful, deep & meaningful.
2022, and he is still acquireing fans♥️.
Can't believe it's taken this 71 yo music fanatic so long to discover & explore Nick Drake!!!~Thank-You I feel ya' man having dealt with being diagnosed at 19 as manic-depressive...ps also long-time secret/kinda'' singer songwriter...i feel a deep connection with you man RIP!!~!
I’m a 55 year old music fanatic. When I was in my early 30’s I dated a 19 year old who turned me on to Nick Drake. I turned her onto Laura Nyro.
Thank you ever so much for uploading this ,I was upset that I'd missed it..Big thanks and hugs too 😊
He looked as good as he played.
it's Amazing that there are very few artists about today and in history that whenever you introduce a friend they become hooked ... Nick was definately one of them. Fragile, beautiful and life changing... brilliant
I was on a boozy holiday with friends once, and one of them got so drunk the night before he couldn’t get out of bed to go to the beach, so I put on Five Leaves Left for him as we went out, as I thought it not too loud and hectic for a hungover guy. When we came back from the beach about 7 hours later he had simply sat there drinking water and listening to the album on repeat for the whole time. He was completely hooked.
2 yrs later...come back for a second listening ;) thank you x
The best songwriter and so English... nobody like him and never will be...he was too beautiful for this world.
Nick drake is everything
Northern Sky....my fave
THANK YOU POSTER!!! Nick Drake, for those of us who've discovered him, is a real 'Love At First Sight (Listen) kinda thing... Literally NOTHING ELSE sounds like Nick Drake... (His TRAGEDY is that he passed away before his music was accessed and understood...) How HE would have coped with the ADULATION is anyone's guess... xx SF
Been looking for this for ages thank you
Someone gave me a CD covering this BRAD PITT' s show on NICK Drake. Great someone like Bratt gives Nick this attention. He is worth it.
Gracias por este documental, acabo de descubrir Nick Drake y me encanta su musica, lo escuchas y no entiendes porque no ha sido una estrella
Always thought it was a tragic story that he never knew how popular and beloved his music became. Pink Moon is one of my favourite songs ever. Such a talented guitarist, so gifted
Thanks for sharing this Pete B. I missed it when it was first broadcast in 2004. I was actually at the cinema as it was broadcast with a stunningly beautiful woman, now my wife, watching Brad Pitt as Achilles in 'Troy.' I made the right sacrifice at the time. It is good to have actually heard it after all these years.
I've loved Nick Drake's music since John Martyn's Solid Air.
It's so beautiful, with a rare purity that touches my soul deeply.
In interview, John Martyn said that Nick was highly ambitious and ill-equipped to deal with failure.
I think that's true. He had had so much success in all his previous endeavours, eg, how he excelled in school in all aspects. He couldn't cope with what he perceived as failure.
It's terribly sad. If he'd just waited...
Superb pot puri of every relevance in ND life , it's doubtful we will get a better insight into this enigmatic genius with a troubled soul . Of course the cruelest twist is painful touring and promotion would be mitigated today with technology and fame and fortune would be laid at his feet. Reality was more brutal as he died without adulation or critical acclaim but left this world with a breathtaking legacy of timeless acoustic alchemy .
Andre Bowen
First heard Nick Drake when watching an episode of Heartbeat on ITV3, this beautiful, moving, haunting song was being played as background music. I thought I must find out what is that song and discovered it was 'When Day is Done' by Nick Drake. Been a huge fan ever since.
Being an amateur guitarist, compared to Nick, enables me to listen in awe to his sublime use of chord changes in tracks such as 'Riverman'. He is one of the few song artists that can reduce me to tears. Such a travesty of life he is no longer around.
Slightly different genre of music but have you listened to Jeff Buckley much at all? if not you might enjoy his album Grace...I recommend digging through Bert Jansch's back catalogue too ,his latter stuff with Hope Sandoval from mazzy Star called ' Barvarian Fruitbread' it's a gorgeous album.
@@sophiew1967 Hoq thrilled they used his music.Seemed tolentauthentìcy to itall.Great show!
THANK YOU So much for this Pete!!!!!
Thanks for this!
I first heard Nicks music on the Island samplers Nice enough to eat , then Bumpers , His music has been part of my life since 1969
The internet wins with this
Nice Brad!!
thx million for upload xD wish the nick drake themed topic would go on & on
Excellent.
Imagine someone you know tossing a copy of Five Leaves Left onto your bed, no great ceremony, just “here you go”.. and then you see them on the sleeve and listen to it.. if that doesn’t floor you nothing will..
This was a great episode
Thanks for sharing this
If you have heard the "Family Tree" album, where ND covers a few songs by Jackson C Frank, when he also was an unknown genius at the time (only made one album, produced by none other than Paul Simon)... Check his stuff out. "Milk and Honey", and "My name is Carnival" (the latter was featured in "Joker" the movie. Joker's stage name was "Carnival")
amazing
For Nick to assume he’d be this massive star and sell millions is arrogant and egotistical, coupled with the fact he didn’t promote himself. Whether he liked it or not you have to play live, give interviews and play the game. The fact the music is still beautiful is all the more tragic. Nicks strikes me as very precious, who wasn’t prepared to play the game and thought the music would speak for itself and the money would come rolling in, tragically for him in the 60’s and 70’s you had to work bloody hard to get your music out there and jump through every hoop. I get the sense that Nick hitting out on the people who tried to promote him is really Nick beating himself up for not having either the confidence or desire to push himself. A troubled soul. The music lasts.
yes, people who are too sensitive can't stand the ways of the industry, very thin skin, Drake, Cobain...
@@gonzalocastelo2230 even people with thick skins almost get killed by the industry if they make it. Nick Drake had a crazy level of support from his label... But he needed the temperament of John Martyn, if you're a introvert and try to play live on your own, you can't hide.
Artists have a way of predicting their short life
thanks!
He never should have given up.
I read once a list of “most underrated albums” and five leaves left came top.
Their flippant, joking view was, if they’d made an album this good, and no one liked it, they’d also consider suicide. But there’s a grain of truth in that. It must’ve fucked with his head to put out such genius, and then having to question yourself because it’s not commercially successful.
Listen to The Endless Coloured Ways, and especially 'Cello Song
I wish he would have lived.. And I wish that he knows his life was never in vain.. He meant so much.. His short life meant very much, and to so many people.. I just wish somehow that he knows that..
Good music 🎵🎶
ironically being unsucessful is what makes him unique and proof that he was miles ahead of his time
I have a feeling Nick didn’t record to a ‘click track’ because TRUE emotion ebbs and flows. That’s why most music today is
LIFELESS quantized and dull..devoid of emotion. Edit 26:43 that’s an experiment that doesn’t sound right...Nashville-ize Nick. Nope, the horn section and Nick are going in 2 VERY DIFFERENT divergent directions. The horns are trying to pull things up and make everything cheery a la ‘shiny happy people’...mistake missed take CUT delete the F-ing horn section
Mmmh... Just your opinion. I do think all the musicians around him made a wonderful job. Wonderful.
He didn’t record to a click track actually. Most were live. But he DID practice with a metronome.
Pink Moon ❤
So why is it that back then there were no admirers like all of you down here are?
Doesn't it sound quite tragic or unexplainable?
Both.
Because the 1960s and early 70s had a crazy, crazy level of musical talent in the UK. Nick Drake would have had to have gigged three or four times a week to get his name out there, and compete... he didn't want to do that. Plus by the early 70s the folk scene was imploding apart from the big players, a lot of bands struggled and had to give up. He had little chance of making it 'big'
@@mikethebloodthirsty Well, aye, it was all prog and glam. Only Cat Stevens made it through in the UK, plus some other bits by John Martyn, Ralph McTell and Al Stewart.
Brad is now xtra cool 😎
shame to all the people around him, nobody helped him.
First music heard is an atrocious cover of Day Is Done by Nora bloody Jones?! Seriously?
It really sounds wrong with an American accent. They should've begun with Nick.
Can`t fake a Nick Drake song.
no one can do Nick Drake
I nicked a rake once.
Knew nothing about him , but of his sister Gabrielle drake
Who's the drunk chick at the beginning with her slurred, lethargic drawl? 🥶
You talkin about norah jones?
Norah Jones. Ugh that was a terrible rendition. I don't mind her usually, but she has NO business covering ND.
is that brad pitt?
It certainly is - he's a big fan apparently.
that's amazing. i've known nick for a while, i've listened to his music for years now, and i've been researching nick drake for a while now, and i learn every day of another well-known singer-songwriter covering his songs, lisa hannigan, norah jones, etc. it's quite amazing
It's true - his sound and ideas have touched a lot of people. I speaks to a mellow kind of sadness very well.
09:44 he says "With me, Brad Pitt."
Doubt it...
Was going to watch this...then heard the narrator at the beginning...no thanks.
Covers of his songs are revolting
Ha, revolting is a bit harsh but I know what you mean 😂
It's worth trying to learn them for yourself. Just don't play them for any one.
Best ones are the ones that play closest to Nick as possible, not making their own version. Own version Nick Drake songs are simply not good. People can`t fake a Nick Drake song.
@@jamesdana1273 I have no guitar skills, but Nick should just be left to Rest In Peace without his songs being mutilated. Only Josh Turner should be allowed to play them
How on earth was Norah Jones allowed to murder a Nick Drake song? His music is so elementally English, so an American accent just doesn't work. Awful.
Must've been tricky... being Gay in the late-sixties / early seventies.
A lot of self hate, at who he was...
Nick wasn't gay. Why on earth did you assume this?
There was zero proof that he had a leaning towards men. It was more like he suffered from the expectations of the social circles he was coming from.
Twat he wasn't gay
Great documentary but wow, Norah Jones really ruins those beautiful songs!
So the first thing we hear is an American actor, then an awful cover version of one of Nick's best songs. Then another American.
Typical BBC, completely disrespecting the British artist and British people.
The "other" American being Joe Boyd, without whom there might not be any Nick Drake records.
@@michaelwynn8019 Without Davey Graham (a British guitarist) there would be no Folk music revival scene of the late 1950's.
And without Davey Graham, there would not have been the same Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, or Ralph McTell, and without them, there might not have been any Nick Drake.
Nothing to do with any Americans sir.
In fact, Paul Simon was just a struggling busker who came to London and learned his craft playing alongside those I mentioned, in Les Cousins Folk Club, before he made it 'big' in America.
Please learn your history before typing any more rubbish thanks.
@@DjNikGnashers You're telling me absolutely nothing I don't know there. It doesn't negate my point about Joe Boyd and your apparent ignorance about him.
@@michaelwynn8019 No need for the insult.
I know all about Joe Boyd, he was an American writer/producer.
He had nothing to do with Davey Graham travelling around the middle east in the 1950's, and then passing on his knowledge and inventive tuning DADGAD for the 6 string guitar, to the ppl I mentioned.
This was the English Folk scene beginnings, nothing to do with America.
Oh man. His lyrics sound like high school kid poetry and the rhyming is so simplistic. There is a cloyingly sappy element to all of it that seems so forced, but what I do find genuine and realistic-sounding is the account by the friend who said that this Nick Drake guy was so mad about not being famous and commercially successful. I think his music is more popular now than it was when he was alive solely because there used to be good music to compete with back then. Now, there really isn’t. Despite what I think of his lyrics and contrived vocal sound, I definitely like his music more than any mumble rap or crappy Gen Z pop.
Most pop songs are 'high school level. Anything more than that, it is no longer 'pop'ular.
His music wasn't more popular back in the days because he barely played live and back in those times musicians got famous if they toured a lot and their music were played on the radio. Since he basically didn't perform his songs, and none of his songs were released as a single and they weren't on the radio, it was quite clear he couldn't become more well known at that time.
His talent was obvious even in the beginning because Joe Boyd wouldn't have cared about him if his music wasn't good enough, he helped him to release records and play his music as he wanted.
Part of the problem was also that Nick didn't have any managers who would organise him concerts that were intimate, almost like a classic music concert where people sit and listen - instead he played his quiet songs to noisy teenagers in cafe bars that were not the ideal place for his songs, so he after a short while he stopped playing at concerts altogether.
He already had an enthusiastic small fanbase even during his lifetime and when more famous musicians started mention him as inspirations he became a lot more well known. It's not a coincidence either that with the help of internet and radio stations people fall in love with his music more and more. Because if the music is brilliant people will find it and love it.
...but you're logic doesn't add up. If Nick is more popular now "cos "modern music's rubbish" then surely today we'd be awash with a resurgence of the bands you claim
out-classed him to begin with. Great music doesn't need to be spoon-fed - some just takes longer to digest and appreciate.
Not high brow enough for Brad Pitt.... it makes him nothing..less Brad wishes to chat with me about the way Nick constructed his music and sentiment?
I have absolutely no idea what you mean..
I read this 17 times and still have zero idea what you meant to say lol
oh, then you were friends of nick drake
Pitt called everyone who knew Drake before making this show.
@@SteveBryson Did he though?
i remember this when it aired couldny fuckin wait aw day that day fur this
you should try not to type while watching Trainspotting!
first time i came across nick was in the mojo ma in 91
Sounds like brad pitt hosting