Nick Drake. Musician.
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Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician, known for his acoustic guitar-based songs.
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Date Posted: 08/30/2015
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He failed to find a wide audience during his lifetime, but his work has gradually achieved wider notice and recognition.
Drake died from an overdose of amitriptyline, a prescribed antidepressant; he was 26 years old. Whether his death was an accident or suicide has never been resolved.
Drake's music remained available through the mid-1970s, but the 1979 release of the retrospective album Fruit Tree allowed his back catalogue to be reassessed.
By the mid-1980s Drake was being credited as an influence by such artists as Robert Smith, David Sylvian and Peter Buck.
In 1985, The Dream Academy reached the UK and US charts with "Life in a Northern Town", a song written for and dedicated to Drake.
By the early 1990s, he had come to represent a certain type of "doomed romantic" musician in the UK music press.
His first biography was published in 1997, followed in 1998 by the documentary film A Stranger Among Us.
In 2004, nearly 30 years after his death, Drake gained his first chart placing when two singles, "Magic" and "River Man", were released to coincide with the Made to Love Magic album. English electronic duo Goldfrapp have cited Drake as a big influence on their music.
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