Nick Drake's mysterious masterpiece, 'Pink Moon,' came out 50 years ago today. This 12-second clip is the only known video of the late songwriter — or is it?
, the masterpiece that’s always waiting to be discovered. Even back then, no one quite knew what to do with those introspective, nakedly elegiac songs — or the man who created them. “Nick Drake: Out of Obscurity,” read the headline in Salt Lake City’sin 1972. “It is true that no one knows where Nick Drake lives …Drake is unreachable, does no tours … It is as though he interacts only with nature, yet is ever studying man’s existence.
The reason why is simple: There isn’t a lot of physical evidence left that Drake was a real person. You can go to England and visit his hometown village, Tanworth-in-Arden, pay respects at his grave and stand for a picture in front of his home. But you won’t find a museum there with the laced-up shoes from the cover ofor his striped poncho in a climate-controlled case. You can read his sister Gabrielle’s 2014 biographybut only a handful of known photos of Nick Drake exist on the internet.
For years, fans have speculated that it’s definitely the gangly songwriter, drifting through the crowd, alone. There’s even a, expertly breaking down the video and pointing out why it could be him: He indeed owned the red velvet blazer the figure is wearing in the video, and Gabrielle’s biography mentions that he played the Krumlin Festival in Yorkshire in August of 1970.
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