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Fame came too late for Nick Drake

The singer-songwriter deserved to be far better known in his lifetime – but reticence and mental illness contributed to his tragically early death in 1974

24 June 2023

9:00 AM

24 June 2023

9:00 AM

Nick Drake: The Life Richard Moreton Jack

John Murray, pp.576, 30

A friend suggested I might bring a feminine twist to this review by imagining what it felt like to be Nick Drake’s mother. It was a startling thought. When I read artists’ biographies I tend to stand with them eye-to-eye, rather than conjure the perspective of an older generation. But the further we are distanced in time and age (the singer-songwriter died in 1974, aged 26), the more the picture morphs.

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