One Of These Things First” by Nick Drake offers a window into the problems that led to the young folk singer’s untimely ...

Barack Obama’s inclusion of Nick Drake’s wistful and timeless “One of These Things First” on his annual summer playlist last year was one of the former president’s genuinely unexpected jams. But it ...

Nick Drake’s Estate has authorized the July 25 release of The Making of Five Leaves Left, coming from Island/UME. The impending deliverable is rooted in 30+ demos, unheard studio outtakes, and ...

Spanning four LPs (or four CDs, if that’s your thing), The Making of Five Leaves Left contains 30 previously unheard tracks, including demos and studio outtakes. “I knew Nick was making this album (we ...

A new box set focusing on the creation of late influential British singer/songwriter Nick Drake’s 1969 debut album, Five Leaves Left, is due out this summer. The box set comes with a 60-page book ...

Nick Drake recorded three of the most sublime albums in the history of folk-rock (or any other genre) in his brief lifetime. He died in relative obscurity at the age of 26 in 1974. A devoted cult ...

Fontaines D.C. have shared a cover of Nick Drake‘s “Cello Song” from new tribute album The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs Of Nick Drake. Fontaines’ rendition of the Five Leaves Left classic fully ...

Nick Drake died thirty years ago, and, unlike many other late musicians, he has remained unprolific in death. Now, eighteen years after the release of the “four last songs” — “Rider on the Wheel,” ...

Sullen and reclusive, Nick Drake was a singularly improbable rock star. Drake released only three albums in his lifetime: “Five Leaves Left” (1969), “Bryter Layter” (1970) and “Pink Moon” (1972). His ...

Fans of cult icon Nick Drake have never seen a moving image of their hero at work on acoustic guitar. In the new film, A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake, director Jeroen Berkvens succeeds in ...

This story originally appeared in Issue #8 of Paste Magazine in Feb/Mar of 2004, republished in celebration of Paste’s 20th Anniversary. It was a bad fit all along. Painfully shy people don’t make ...