Hooray! We’re going out of sequence with my master plan for No Skips, the weekly column where I judge an album per track to see if any are skippable. This week, we’re taking a glimpse at Nick Drake’s ...
Next week’s Vinyl Sessions will see bestselling music writer Rob Chapman talk about the late singer-songwriter and, also, another ‘lost boy’ of the 1960s, Syd Barrett. The author of Unsung ...
Drake signed to Island Records when he was 20 years old and a student at the University of Cambridge. He released his debut album, Five Leaves Left, in 1969. He recorded two more albums—Bryter ...
On the fiftieth anniversary of Nick Drake's death, Rob Chapman argues that his legacy has been let down by a culture that allows his mental health struggles to overshadow his art, and that turns his ...