Barack Obama’s inclusion of Nick Drake’s wistful and timeless “One of These Things First” on his annual summer playlist last year was one of the former president’s genuinely unexpected jams.

his legacy as a singer-songwriter has continued to blossom over the last 50 years. Back in 2023, a myriad of artists came together for The Endless Coloured Ways – The Songs of Nick Drake ...

Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter known for his acoustic guitar-based songs. He did not find a wide audience during his lifetime ...

A new box set focusing on the creation of late influential British singer/songwriter Nick Drake’s 1969 debut album, Five Leaves Left, is due out this summer. The box set comes with a 60-page ...

The estate of Nick Drake will release a new box set this summer ... unheard outtakes from the sessions that resulted in the singer-songwriter’s debut album, 1969’s Five Leaves Left.

Nick Drake only became a star after his death at a tragically young 26 back in 1974. He is buried in the picture-postcard village of Tanworth-in-Arden, near Solihull, where he lived. Drake's music ...

This summer, Nick Drake fans can look forward to a windfall of never-before ... This had spent decades in the care of the singer-songwriter and friend of Drake’s, Beverley Martyn. The first thing you ...

Singer-songwriter Nick Drake was for years one of the nation's great musical unknowns. Releasing only three barely-noticed albums during the Seventies, Drake died of an overdose of anti ...

“I don’t think I’ve been so impressed by an unknown singer/songwriter since I got the Duncan Browne album on Immediate, eighteen months ago … as I’ve been by the Nick Drake thing ...

The BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Hall of Fame exists to celebrate significant people who have made a lasting impression on folk music, and have since passed away. In 2018, the year in which he would ...

Wednesday 20th January sees a group of musicians gather at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall to pay tribute to the legendary singer-songwriter Nick Drake, in a concert curated by Drake's producer ...