Nick Drake: The Pink Moon Files

If you have already read either of the main biographies of Nick Drake, you might think you know more or less all you need to know. Not so! This book brings many different perspectives, which combine to add a lot to our understanding of the Van Gogh of the music world.

This compilation from the labour-of-love fanzine Pink Moon is well-considered and gives fascinating and fresh insights into the enigmatic Nick.Its great advantage over the biographies by Patrick Humphries and Trevor Dann is that it has no particular agenda -- it presents first-person testimonies by the likes of John Martyn, Island Records employees, Robin Frederick and Drake's Cambridge contemporaries, his family, a psychiatrist, among many others and allows you to draw your own conclusions about what sort of a person Drake was, how much success meant to him, what kind of success he was interested in, his mental health and so on. Some of the essays and reminiscences are very touching. One of the many intriguing aspects of the book is that, on occasion, the same events are seen through different eyes.As editor, Jason Creed rarely intrudes, when he does have something to say, he comes across as modest, concise and to the point. The book is also well proofread -- unlike some recent music books I can think of. Trouble has been taken. [If the book is ever updated, there are a couple of people whose thoughts on Nick Drake I'd like to hear - Bridget St John and Beverley Martyn, both of whom knew him well...and John Cale, who worked with Drake on Northern Sky]Read this book and Ian Macdonald's brilliant analysis of Nick Drake's muse in his book The People's Music and that's the closest you'll get to unraveling and understanding something of the Nick Drake story.

There are many articles in here that I knew of, but only read just now. A real treat is one account of Nick Drake in Morocco, heading back to Spain and France. We know of their time in Morocco; the meeting with the Rolling Stones for example, but this is something else. There are no agendas, no egos in here; at least none apparent. It was with an agenda that Trevor Dann wrote "Darker than the Deepest Sea", and i really didn't like his tone at all.This is far better.

Stripped down to just the man and his music ... My favorite Album of his and i love them all ... It,s intimate - personal - a quiet moment alone with nick - quite beautiful

An indispensable collection of Nick Drake articles from a fan magazine . Essential for all Drake fans .

Good to see that Jason has developed the pink Moon "magazine" into a book... I got every copy and even made the odd contribution but still plenty in this to keep me interested and I have been a Nick Drske fan since the 70s... Covers a broad spectrum of info and interviews about Nick.. A good read for any Nick fan..

If you've read the Dann & Humphries books, this gives another view on the story.The fanzine was a labour of love, so it's good to see them collected together in one place.

Excellent book, very informative and well written.