A cult figure in British folk music, Nick Drake's haunting guitar playing, dark,
melancholic lyrics and tragically young death have made him a mysterious hero to
acts as diverse as Kate Bush, Dave Grohl, Paul Weller and The Cure's Robert
Smith. Born to an upper class English family in Burma in 1948, Drake was brought
up in a country mansion in Warwickshire before discovering LSD and cannabis
while busking his way to Morocco and returning to study English Literature at
Cambridge University. He started performing on London's coffee house scene in
1968 and, with the help of producer...