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Nick Drake: Bio | Chronology | Death   | Guitars   | Interplay One 1972 | London 1968 | Photographs | Ross Grainger Reminiscences 1969-70 | Songs | Interplay One 1972 According to Robert Kirby, friend and arranger for Nick Drake, both he and Nick were involved in sessions for the educational double LP recording entitled Interplay One (Longman, 1972). Kirby remembered the following in regards to the session: The other session I got for Nick was for Longman, the educational publishers. I was singing, pretending to be a swagman, Nick played guitar, and a childhood friend called Rocking John played banjo ….. I was going out with a girl who was an editor at Longman, and it was recorded, I think, at their offices in Harlow. It was done within a year of us leaving Cambridge, so 1970/71. (Patrick Humphries, Nick Drake - the biography , Bloomsbury, 1998, 145-6). Precise recording dates are unknown – Kirby vaguely refers to 1970/71, whilst the LP label cites t...

Nick Drake: Bio | Chronology | Death   | Guitars   | Interplay One 1972 | London 1968 | Photographs | Ross Grainger Reminiscences 1969-70 | Songs | Nick Drake 1948-74 On 25 November 1974, Nick Drake, a 26 year old English guitarist, singer and songwriter died at his parents Tanworth-in-Arden home from an overdose of the anti-depressant drug Tryptizol. The coroner at the time declared the death a suicide, yet family and friends suggested it was an accidental overdose, following upon a long period of depression. According to official accounts, there was no suicide note discovered and friends said that Nick was in a relatively good frame of mind at the time. Whatever the truth surrounding his death, there is no doubt that it was a tragedy, both personally and musically, for Nick Drake was a rare talent. For this reason his fan base continues to expand and his music remains on general release around the world. The young musician left a legacy of just three album...

Nick Drake: Bio | Chronology | Death   | Guitars   | Interplay One 1972 | London 1968 | Photographs | Ross Grainger Reminiscences 1969-70 | Songs | Photographs of Nick Drake Introduction The following is a listing of photographs of Nick Drake, focusing on his time as a musician post 1966. It was initially compiled in 2011, and since then a number of additional images have come to light. Though many of the images are known to fans from LP and CD covers, biographical memoirs, reviews and web sites, they are listed here comprehensively for the first time in chronological order. This is to aid in the ongoing research into the life and times of Nick Drake, as the artist remains something of a mystery. Images of him are relatively, with two superb examples by Tony Evans from 1971 only "discovered" in October 2011, and a gig poster coming to light in late 2016. Questions arise as to precisely when the various images of Drake were taken, by...