Pink Moon - A Story about Nick Drake Originally
written in Danish in 1980, Pink Moon was the first
biography of Nick Drake, and remains the only one to
include exclusive interviews with the singer's parents,
Rodney and Molly Drake. In this new, significantly
updated edition, available in English for the first
time, author and poet Gorm Henrik Rasmussen reveals more
from his visits to the Drakes in their home Far Leys -
the first, just five years after the death of their
troubled son. Rasmussen includes new interviews with
Nick's friends and collaborators plus extracts taken
from his eight-year correspondence with the Drakes, and
from telephone conversations he had with Rodney every
month over four years. Full of intimate detail about the
last three years of Nick's life spent at his childhood
home, Pink Moon - A Story about Nick Drake is a
personal, original, and moving retelling of the life,
death, and posthumous rise of a poet and guitarist who
was strangely unsuited for his own time, and is more
popular now than he ever was in life. Gorm Henrik
Rasmussen (b. 1955) is a poet living in Copenhagen,
Denmark. He has published novels, short stories, poems,
and works of non-fiction.His subjects include eccentrics
and strange places of the northern part of Jutland,
where he was born and raised. He has received several
literary awards from The Danish Arts Foundation and The
Danish Arts Council. |
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