Nick Drake Documentary
Monday, April 17, 2006 7:49:24 PM

Lost Boy: In Search Of Nick Drake
This is the version that has been re-voiced by Brad Pitt. Not that I doubt the sincerity of Pitt's interest in Drake's music, his narration doen't really lend itself to the subject matter. BBC Radio 2 link.
It's delivered in very flat matter-of-fact manner, the tone of which would be more in keeping with one of those faux reverential AutoQueue induced awards speeches that never sound right even on Oscar night. I don't dislike Pitt but he doesn't really suit this sort of thing (is that coming across?).
I think the desire to enlist an A List celebrity on the project far outweighed common sense, or at least the stabilising influence of a BBC producer on hand. I'm pretty sure I have the original broadcast with the producer's original narration on a cassette - somewhere...
UPDATE 1:The original version of this programme was called "Fruit Tree - The Nick Drake Story". Broadcast on 20th June 1998, BBC Radio 2. It was presented by bass player Danny Thompson. A good quality bootleg of this does exist. Hopefully, soon, here.

Until that surfaces...
lost_boy.part1.rar lost_boy.part2.rar lost_boy.part3.rar Files are split into smaller chunks for now until I'm confident about uploading anything bigger here.
UPDATE 2 (2009.11.21):Apropos the original broadcast, I found the transcript here. "Danny Thompson tells the story of Nick Drake, the singer-songwriter who died unknown at the age of 26 but posthumously influenced a new generation of artists, including REM, Kate Bush and Paul Weller. With contributions from his actress sister Gabrielle Drake, producer Joe Boyd and engineer John Wood." Now where's that bloody recording?????









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Gary Walshgarywalsh # Tuesday, April 17, 2007 1:58:16 PM
I'd like to put up more music documentaries once I've found my tape deck. Wouldn't think you could actually lose a hi-fi separate would you?
I'm still on the look out for that original version of the Nick Drake doc. I still hold out the hope I may have it on good old fashioned cassette. Having something of a spring cleaning session today so I shall search the moutain of tapes with fingers metaphorically crossed.
Anonymous # Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:58:02 AM
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Gary Walshgarywalsh # Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:08:44 AM
Brad is the pitts by By Chris Campling
A healthy selection of Nick Drake recordings can be found here:
The Nick Drake Bootleg Collection
Anonymous # Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:45:21 PM
Gary Walshgarywalsh # Friday, January 29, 2010 11:09:31 PM
"Kaleidoscope Feature Nick Drake: Unsung Nick Drake's untimely death in 1974 went largely unnoticed in the press - fame had proven elusive for the melancholic singer/songwriter. But today he has become a cult figure and an influence on the like of Elvis Costello, REM and Paul Weller. John Wilson explorers the life and death of this unlikely folk hero."
- Description from the Radio Times, 20th December 1997.
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