Observer book of the weekBiography booksReviewThis definitive study of the venerated singer-songwriter, who died at 26, examines his alarming unravelling and short life of artistic torment
When the cult singer-songwriter Nick Drake’s third album, Pink Moon, was released in 1972 many of his friends were horrified. Now held to be a stone-cold classic, it is a spare, beautiful sequence of songs, many of which lay bare its 24-year-old author’s inner tumult. Read More...
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