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Pink Moon - A Story about Nick Drake
Originally written in Danish in 1980, Pink Moon was the first biography of Nick Drake, and remains the only one to include exclusive interviews with the singer's parents, Rodney and Molly Drake. In this new, significantly updated edition, available in English for the first time, author and poet Gorm Henrik Rasmussen reveals more from his visits to the Drakes in their home Far Leys - the first, just five years after the death of their troubled son.
Rasmussen includes new interviews with Nick's friends and collaborators plus extracts taken from his eight-year correspondence with the Drakes, and from telephone conversations he had with Rodney every month over four years.
Full of intimate detail about the last three years of Nick's life spent at his childhood home, Pink Moon - A Story about Nick Drake is a personal, original, and moving retelling of the life, death, and posthumous rise of a poet and guitarist who was strangely unsuited for his own time, and is more popular now than he ever was in life.
Gorm Henrik Rasmussen (b. 1955) is a poet living in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has published novels, short stories, poems, and works of non-fiction. His subjects include eccentrics and strange places of the northern part of Jutland, where he was born and raised. He has received several literary awards from The Danish Arts Foundation and The Danish Arts Council.
List of contents
Foreword 1 Zeeland, 1978 Rodney and Molly The Music Room 2 The Guitar A Trip to Africa A Poet with a Guitar The American What Exactly is a Dream? The Royal Festival Hall The Girl and the Monkey Bryter Layter Pink Moon Hanging on a Star 3 Existential Depression Time of No Reply Family Tree Discography Sources
About the author
Gorm Henrik Rasmussen (b. 1955) is a poet living in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has published novels, short stories, poems, and works of non-fiction. His subjects include eccentrics and strange places of the northern part of Jutland, where he was born and raised. He has received several literary awards from The Danish Arts Foundation and The Danish Arts Council.
Summary
Pink Moon is a personal, original, and moving retelling of the life, death, and posthumous rise of Nick Drake from Danish poet Gorm Henrik Rasmussen. This is the only account of Nick's life to include extensive interviews with Nick's parents as well as others of his close friends. It is now available in English for the first time. -- .
