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* Remembered for a While ✓ PDF Download by * Nick Drake eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Remembered for a While 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. 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. The book will feature go
| Title | : | Remembered for a While |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.11 (897 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316340626 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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. 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. The book will feature gorgeous color photographs, as well as original letters and interviews with family and friends. A vivid portrait of the English singer-songwriter and musician Nick DrakeNicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician, known for his acoustic guitar-based songs. 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.
Drake writes that Remembered for a While is not a biography, her astute annotations, as well as the album-by-album overview by the British critic Peter Paphides, make it a richly detailed account of his life and work."Allan Kozinn, New York Times"Lovingly compiledThis compendium of letters, photographs, handwritten poetry, and personal ephemera builds an intimate picture of an immensely talented yet tormented artist."Aimee Farrell, Vogue"Man, musician and legacy are each beautifully served by REMEMBERED FOR A WHILEThere is unlikely to be another volume compiled which will have the same privilege of access to so many of the key-players in the Drake story, nor to the family's archive; and, therefore, nor will there be another which conveys as much detail or is produced with such careSometimes painfully honest, often emotional, occasionally funny, sometimes dry and scholarly - always deeply engaging - REMEMBERED FOR A WHIL
He has published two award-winning collections of poetry, and his play was performed at the National Theater in London. His screenplays include the critically acclaimed Romulus, My Father (starring Eric Bana), which won Best Film at the Australian Film Awards in 2007. He lives in London. Nick Drake is the author of Nefertiti and Tutankhamun, the first two books in the Rahotep detective trilogy.
DRAKE REMEMBERED BY HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS--BUT STILL UNIDENTIFIABLE. "Sometimes he seems hardly to have existed at all." Mick Brown on Nick Drake.Fans of Nick Drake's music and/or who also might find his troubled life fascinating will want this book. Drake's sister, Gabrielle, has put this in-depth collection together of letters, diary entries, photos, scrapbook entries, newspaper articles, and essays from those who knew Drake during his short life. Plus there's a Discography and near the very end of the book, some short, nicely written remembrances of Drake by singer Bridget St John, guitarist/singer Michael Chapman, and musicians l. A great book with recollections of Nick Drake by his sister Eduardo L. De Macedo A great book with recollections of Nick Drake by his sister Gabrielle and many friends! Nick was always for me one of the most important musicians of our time! The book is helping me to know him better. Great!. Great looking but weird typographical issues on just about every page twoeyedcyclops This seems like a wonderful book but - incredibly for such an expensive, beautifully made book - every time there is a "ct" or "st" combination of letters in the text, there's a weird character connecting the two letters, similar to an accent symbol. This is throughout the entire book, from the introduction by Gabrielle Drake on page 6 - in fact the corrupted text appears within the first dozen words of the book! - to literally the very last page, where copyright information and the ISBN number appears. That means common words like "first", "fact", "just", "still",
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