ick Drake & Volkswagen
Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician best known for his haunting, acoustic, autumn tinged song. Drake signed to Island Records when he was 20 years old and released his debut album, Five Leaves Left, in 1969. By 1972, he had recorded two more albums—Bryter Layter and Pink Moon. None of the albums sold more than 5,000 copies on their initial release.His reluctance to perform live or be interviewed further contributed to his lack of commercial success.
In the months following Pink Moon's release, Drake became increasingly asocial and distant from those close to him. He returned to live at his parents' home in Far Leys, and while he resented the regression, he accepted that his illness made it necessary. He lived a frugal existence, his only source of income being a £20-a-week retainer he received from Island Records. At one point he could not afford a new pair of shoes. He would often disappear for days, sometimes turning up unannounced at friends' houses, uncommunicative and withdrawn. In 1974 Nick Drake died due to over consumption of antidepressants, he was only 26.
In 1999, Pink Moon, the title track was used in "Milky Way", a Volkswagen Cabriolet commercial directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and lensed by Lance Acord, and within a month Drake had sold more records than he had in the previous thirty years.
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