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Nick Drake Documentary

Monday, April 17, 2006 7:49:24 PM

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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...

starUPDATE 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. bigsmile

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.

starUPDATE 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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Comments

Anonymous Monday, October 9, 2006 8:23:11 AM

Anonymous writes: Wow, thanks for this! Yes I'd also like to hear that original pre-pitt version if anyone has it? PLEASE????? :-)

Anonymous Thursday, March 1, 2007 2:37:46 PM

Donal writes: Thanks gary for making this available and for the krautrock documentaries. Hope your head reconnects with your torso soon. Thanks man!

Anonymous Thursday, March 1, 2007 2:37:47 PM

Donal writes: Thanks gary for making this available and for the krautrock documentaries. Hope your head reconnects with your torso soon. Thanks man!

Anonymous Monday, March 12, 2007 10:50:48 PM

Hazyjane writes: thank you so much.

Gary Walshgarywalsh Tuesday, April 17, 2007 1:58:16 PM

You're welcome!

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

entrailicus writes: This is great, I've been on the hunt for it for ages. Keep up the good work! fadesinslowly.blogspot.com

Anonymous Sunday, January 13, 2008 12:20:44 AM

marionza writes: Thanks for this! Great job!

Anonymous Thursday, January 1, 2009 8:24:04 AM

mike hill writes: thanks a million gary & good on you mate! i've been trying for years to hear this as i love nick drake & brad pitt. happy new year & take care; :o)

Gary Walshgarywalsh Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:08:44 AM

A review in The Times from 2004:
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

Mike writes: Thank God someone out there still had this. I'm with you on Pitt though, Although he does have some excellent taste in music. (In the past he's been in documentaries from everyone from Jeff Buckley to Sandy Denny & Fairport, So I can deal with him in that respect). Once again-thanks a million for this one-You are the best!

Gary Walshgarywalsh Friday, January 29, 2010 11:09:31 PM

Still searching through tapes for the original non-pitted version. However I did find the programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 1997. Once it's transferred and uploaded, I'll create a new post.

"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.

Anonymous Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:24:23 PM

Haluysio writes: Great!

Anonymous Friday, June 10, 2011 2:58:56 AM

Anonymous writes: I've uploaded it here: http://www.youtube.com/user/MyFavouriteShop?feature=mhee#p/u/4/YVMfKBfrrLM Hope you all enjoy. Michael Patrick.

Anonymous Wednesday, June 22, 2011 12:23:36 PM

Simon writes: what a shame, those links are showing as forbidden now. That's too bad. Ah well.

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