REMEMBERED FOR A WHILE PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Nick Drake, Gabrielle Drake, Cally Callomon | 448 pages | 06 Nov 2014 | Hodder & Stoughton General Division | 9781444792591 | English | London, United Kingdom Remembered for a While - Nick Drake - Google Books Related 0. View All. It's Immaterial Interview. Bathers Interview. TV Smith Interview. Davey Woodward Interview. Alison O' Donnell Profile. European Sun Interview. Silent Boys Profile. Georg Purvis Pink Floyd in the s. Brian 'Licorice' Locking Interview. Al Joshua Interview. Dead Pets Profile. Jimmy Nail Interview. Silver Sun Second Time Lucky? Sam Brown Interview Part 1. This Mortal Coil Interview. Barrie Barlow Interview. Trudie Myerscough-Harris Interview. Gene Interview. Eric Burdon Interview. He also drew the attention of Joe Boyd, whose production company Witchseason served as a linchpin for the British folk scene, and eventually signed to Island Records. Even with Boyd's backing, Drake's debut, Five Leaves Left , was released to almost no attention. Nevertheless, from the beginning, his craft inspired passionate championing, especially among contemporaries like John Martyn and Richard and Linda Thompson, who were all close friends and protective of the shy songwriter. Not that this brought him a wider audience. On the rare occasions he did perform — the book includes a chronology of public shows that fits easily on a single, generously spaced page — Drake became increasingly awkward and withdrawn, even to audiences still mesmerized by his picking and hushed singing. Exponentially more ambitious in its arrangements, 's Bryter Layter drifted into obscurity even faster, Drake quickly withdrawing publicly by retreating to his parents' home. Despite this psychological struggle, he returned to the studio that fall, eschewing accompaniment to record solo. The resulting Pink Moon , released February , arrived raw and unvarnished, vulnerable in a way Drake had never been heard. Despite a dedicated publicity push by Island, the LP garnered little fanfare. He receded deeper into the familial confines of Warwickshire, though he made a handful of final recordings in before his death. Four songs, released posthumously on the Fruit Tree box set, include the harrowing "Black Eyed Dog," Drake's most direct expression of his depression. On these tracks, Drake's fragile voice cracks with an edge that breaks his gently floating melodies. After his death, the music steadily built a cult following. Credit the allure of a poet lost too soon fueling intrigue, yet his compositions echoed across new generations. Fans made pilgrimages to his parents' house and dubbed cassettes of every piece of homemade tape and recording they could find. His LPs remained in print, and songs continued to be repackaged into collections as subsequent audiences rediscovered him. Though Drake remains far from mainstream, covers from artists like Lucinda Williams and Beck continue to draw new attention to his work. Time goes by from year to year And no one asks why I am standing here But I have my answer as I look to the sky This is the time of no reply. Nick Drake's music ties to a specific era, late-Sixties British folk, but it transcends beyond into a space if not timeless, at least removed from a specific time. The acoustic Pink Moon , his bestselling disc, voices something both deeply personal and universal, revealing just enough to catch a glimpse of the poet, but ambiguous enough to be imbued with meaning for each listener. Unique tunings and his flow of words unravel with an impressionistic rhythm, but it's the contemplative beauty of the songs that still ensnares imagination. It's a piercing calm amidst the world ambitiously rushing by, rife with a need to express something deeper, yet always removed and apart. The yearning in his songs to understand and be understood is never quite achieved except in brief ephemeral moments that only pool into more questions. Fame would have likely devastated Drake, but whether his overdose was suicide or the accident of a troubled mind seeking temporary relief can only be speculated. Remembered for a While exposes the brutal effect of Drake's depression on others, unglamorous reality of the romanticized ideal. There's no allure in his friends' and family's recall of Drake's struggle, watching helplessly as the young man drifted further away and became more unreachable, unable to achieve solace even in his music. The excerpts from his father's journals chronicling the last years of Drake's descent, including the devastation of finding him dead, shatter the myth in ways that most fans would rather ignore. In that sense, the book's attempt to pull back a curtain on the legend enshrouding its subject doesn't entirely satisfy. Since there's so little to draw from the artist himself, Drake instead hovers over it as something not fully realized, a ghost seen only in the wake of his having been there rather than the effect of actual presence. That, of course — and again — only makes his songs so much more powerful. Identity dissipates. Artists recede to a specter. Still, art finds its purest connection in communion with the listener. Review: Nick Drake: Remembered For A While, by Gabrielle Drake and Cally Callomon Long, long fingers that were nearly always stained with engine oil from gadgets in the garden that he was trying to put right. Molly wrote songs at the piano and Rodney would record them on a reel-to-reel tape recorder. My husband was so moved he had to leave the room. What would Nick Drake have become had he lived on? He would, perhaps, have found success harder to deal with than what he perceived as his failure. Some not only identify with her brother but project their woes on to him, I suggest. And that is helping them. If it is helping them, then Nick achieved what he set out to do. I want to complicate the Nick Drake story. His music brought posthumous fame and a legion of fans still keen to speculate about the details of his life and work. Now his sister, Gabrielle, has written a revealing book about the singer-songwriter. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian. Stuart Jeffries. He began recording songs on his own again and his record company agreed to publish them. Pink Moon , as a result, is possibly his darkest but also his most poetic attempt and the lines of its title-song resonate throughout the decades although DRAKE himself silenced at November the 25th, Nor can you despise the fact of his illness. It only adds up to the mythical background that later on Heath Ledger, a passionate fan of his, died too early in similar sad circumstances. Nonetheless, society should have learned a bit about depression one might assume. That it is an illness. But also that the medication for this improved over time. Each title is also an effective and fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress. Remembered for a While Book In Rewrite Man , Alison Macor tells an engrossing story about the challenges faced by a top screenwriter at the crossroads of mixed and conflicting agendas in Hollywood. Whether writing love scenes for Tom Cruise on the set of Top Gun , running lines with Michael Keaton on Beetlejuice , or crafting Nietzschean dialogue for Jack Nicholson on Batman , Warren Skaaren collaborated with many of New Hollywood's most powerful stars, producers, and directors. By the time of his premature death in , Skaaren was one of Hollywood's highest-paid writers, although he rarely left Austin, where he lived and worked. Yet he had to battle for shared screenwriting credit on these films, and his struggles yield a new understanding of the secretive screen credit arbitration process—a process that has only become more intense, more litigious, and more public for screenwriters and their union, the Writers Guild of America, since Skaaren's time. His story, told through a wealth of archival material, illuminates crucial issues of film authorship that have seldom been explored. Wyoming, Ten years before, Edwyn Van Deer disappeared after his family was killed in a Lakota raid. Proof of his identity: a silver watch with a portrait of his parents. But fate has other plans than a happy family reunion, and the events of that day will set in motion a tragedy 15 years in the making. All Images. No reviews yet Have you read this book? Remembered for a While - Nick Drake, Gabrielle Drake, Cally Callomon - Google Books Nick Drake: Remembered for a While is beautifully designed, particularly showcasing Drake's handwritten lyrics. But in the midst of beauty comes numerous anecdotes from those who knew him when he was alive. It seems that most people, aside from family, found him distant and secretive. He curiously had no documented love life, few if any partners, and gives the impression at times of almost being asexual. Though at times his lyrics entertain the idea of romance and love, he does not elaborate. Outside commentators have suggested Drake might have been gay and closeted. Though this is possible, it is impossible to prove convincingly. Some know of Nick Drake the depressive more than the folk musician, and, to be sure, that information is provided as well. The most harrowing passage comes transcribed directly from the journals that Nick's father kept to document his son's daily struggles. Some were better than others, but it is clear that for the last two unhappy years of his life he was a semi-recluse. During this last period, he produced a total of four new songs, but was in no condition to record upon arrival at the studio. He rarely left his childhood home and the company of his parents, passing away at only 26 due to what the family insists was an accidental, or at least incautious overdose of antidepressant medication.