A Skin Too Few : The Days Of Nick Drake 🎬 

This is a brilliant documentary as Robert Kirby Nicks arranger has said. I am writing not to praise Nick Drake. God knows its impossible NOT to praise him. I am writing to say that I am sure Nick's sister Gabriella who I think is a dear sweet spiritual soul and every bit Nick's sister in flesh and well as spirit is being ROBBED blind by Universal Records to tragically got hold of Nick's copyrights and are an illegal Monopoly plain and simple For the sake of dear Gabriella we MUST stop the Sony Universal Warner Music Group monopoly. They have already destroyed the music industry and, if they can, will continue to turn it more and more into. a concentration camp every day.

So very sad. What a beautiful person and an extremely talented man. I always wonder if he would've hung on for just one more album.

Honestly that was just incredible. I feel like I was given a glimpse of something very personal between mother and son as soon as Gabrielle played that piece.

Chill ran down my spine. The melancoly, fragile beauty is all there.

8:20, for those wanting to get right to it. It really is a bit of a stunning revelation. I think some tend to make a much bigger deal over it than is really merited -- comments along the lines of "this explains it all!" are a little hysterical -- but of course it is a clear, core foundation of his own musicality.

In all honesty, I just shed a few tears listening to it it's such an amazing moment and piece, and it carries a very intimate and explanatory connotation as added value

He was my age…..wish I had known him

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Possum I think you are wrong on BOTH knew they were great and compelled to make music and art respectively because of that. They both felt underappreicated and WERE under appreciated.

@@blaumausfrau You disagree that he seems like Vincent and that like Vincent he has a sensitive nature? That like Vincent, he experienced a lack of appreciation during his life time for his incredible talent? I AM NOT NOT WRONG AND YOU ACTUALLY **AGREE** WITH ME! But you are too busy being 'right' and showing me... showing me what? Save your nonsense.

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That’s incredible that you listened to him whilst he was alive. I first heard about him this year.

@@zac1672 Enjoy his music, it never ages. Island records brought out a sampler record called "nice enough to eat" it was half the price of a normal album, Nicks Time has told me was one of the tracks

It's such a shame that more of us didn't follow your example and seek his music out. It is timeless and sophisticated.

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I feel your thoughts with my soul…it’s hard to try to express yourself with the criticism,ignorance and indifference of others……sorry I never got to meet Nick….I feel he could have been my best friend…rest in peace kind sir

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I'll listen if you send me your links ❤ I am a musician xxx

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In answer to your question....I understand he was in love with Sophie Ryde and also great friends with Linda Thompson. It's said both relationships were never consummated , wether that's true, it's not been made clear. A letter was found to her on his table after he died, written the previous day, he was seemingly very upset she had ended the relationship.

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if only

He needed counselling and a guitar Tech!!

@Dylan Finley Sure Dylan. I will post it when I've typed it up. NP :) 👍

@Dylan Finley Wishing To Have Known You. (Elegy For Musician Nick Drake). Poem. Dave Taylor. It's hard not to see you, as some ever youthful sage. A bygone product, of a much simpler age. Making your exit when life grew too still. Embracing hard truths, the bitterest of pills. Though there seems a kinship, spanning all distance of time. And within me, both thought and feeling align. My ‘Northern Sky’ shifting to kindlier hues. Whenever I listen to some composition by you.. There is some warped comfort, to attest to the fact. That i'm not alone in feeling THAT. Everything is futile, and in the end all is lost. Needing to kill the pain, whatever the cost. Yet, despite your malady, to achieve what you have. Bequeathing a catalogue, to posterity, well saved. Though for decades, your voice stilled, a ‘Time Of No Reply’. Ironically your voice speaks louder, in ethereal sighs. Since your departure, to those who well know. What it means to be your own worst enemy, and so. That in spite of logic, and rules as ought. Is it too OUT THERE to have the thought. When the dark descends, blotting out my time in the sun. That, just maybe, I will see you when my ‘Day Is Done’. THERE YOU GO MATE. Try not to be TOO critical HAHAHA :)

@Dylan Finley cheers Dylan. Glad you liked it :)

​@@davet1990 absolutely lovely, Dave... means a lot. Thank you for your poem. I wish you could send it to Gabrielle Drake would love it❤

@@maddannafizz Thankyou SO much. I really appreciate your comment :) Bless ya x

Probably couldn't afford it

@@Oceanmachine27 his parents were very rich though

you owe your friend Chris more than you can measure...

please no... if he would have know that his music is now heard by millions of people, he definitely would not do it. He just needed to wait a bit, im sure the success he was waiting for, would overrun him. And again, this is so stupid to say just the good die young. Do you know how fucking many young people kill themself because of this romanticization of "die young" Myth. Kurt Cobain did because he knew he would be remembered for forever if he kill himself at 27. This special number that we humans created for artists with mental health issues. Great achievement.

@@edwaaard46 I lost my younger brother 2 years ago age 49 so yeah I do know what I'm saying when I say "only the good die young" from a bitter and personel experience.

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What the fuck are you on about?

I think they were a loving family though? BUT, maybe it is the not talking about feelings that is pertinent to middle classes?

Shameful comment :/ delete your nonsense.

I find your comments incredibly ignorant. He was at home, making music .. and yes he knew full well that he was loved. Do you know anything about him? His parents particularly did everything they could for him. Try reading his father's diaries regarding the last several years of Nick's life before writing this nonsense slandering them. They can be found in the book 'Remembered For A While'.

It is clear that his sister and family loved him very much. Peace.

With respect you don't understand mental illness. You've suggested he ended his life due to a lack of care and love from his family, which is ignorant beyond words.