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contemporary and fellow item recording artists in those days yes it is true is
it true did you know the man [A] well I did yes [Ab] we did very close to each other he
lived in one part of Hampstead knowledge just heard very quiet [A] very quiet lad
extremely personable and charming when necessary yeah and handsome to a
devastating effect yes the pictures quite stunning pictures I'm gonna miss
a touch of them I [N] can't think of the word I'm thinking of it was very good
why do you think Nick Drake has become the legend that exists today I would
imagine because the quality of the music and his writing it's just very good
music he and he was a very British I think that's one of the things I like
about I think dream Academy has quoted him as being one of their influences
that's right yeah and I think it's because it's British I mean that's it's
that's it's a secret for me doesn't have a perennial appeal because it's hitting
new generations people who have what 15 years younger than Nick are now saying
that this man is important yes what is it is a just inevitably good you can't
really you can't really say that it's bad music so therefore adds a certain
strength what sort of man was he I don't know my first met him he was rather more
out of pain than he became he was always charming delicately witchy but he just
became more and more withdrawn as time went by in the three three and four
years I knew him he became more and more withdrawn I think he's a son of some
sort of depression you saying about you called it melancholia in the Victorian
days absolutely right you were saying about him being eminently British I mean
he went to Marlborough and came right he was only British but I mean he seems to
be a product of the the English middle class that's undoubtedly true and I
think that reflects very well in his music I mean what you see is what you get
it's all it's erudite it's cultured and it's refined I like it what's your
typical singer-songwriter of his period no I have to say that the thing that
sets him apart again is implicit innate Britishness it's while everyone else on
the island roster who was contemporary himself including myself we're having
flirtations with American based sounds [G] [N] in the same way they'll join us with his
first record was a kind of madman across the water or something I'm just gonna
yeah all very all very American based sounds you know the whole idea was to
sound like the band if you could possibly all this kind of stuff and he
was just very quietly going his own way producing but you have a safe [Ab] very
pretty sounds shall we hear another track this is a from his second album
performance this John to my knowledge one was a Christmas affair given by the
Colerty Climax Apprentices so there a Christmas ball he was that really
destroyed him because I think they'd rather listen to the trogs corner again
that's right so I think that was a major blow to his confidence I remember him
being depressed about for days and days and then he did another one at the
festival hall supporting Sandy Denny and a bit more like him there was a good
place for him but he was cripplingly nervous I mean he was just he was
distraught before the gig it was rather embarrassing in fact to see him he was
distinctly uncomfortable on stage I mean the music was fine [N] but he just didn't
like being there so this is the reason that the man didn't play many more gigs
but he just was destroying him I get the impression that it was costing him too
much to go on the stage it was just like no amount of applause or anything else
would would ever have paid him back in the mental effort and energy that he had
to expend did this get worse as time went by because you say the man changed
unfortunately it did yeah he just slipped further away into himself and
divorced himself from the mundane very sad really it wasn't for lack of trying
all kinds of people tried to be friendly and went out of their way to be nice but
I mean I suppose you'd see through that she's being very [E] bright and intelligent
yes well what's in it for you the image of a troubled artist in a sense
[Bb] classic case by Arnik [N] stuff I mean heroic stuff do you think he could have
been helped that the end might not have happened as it did I suppose you to look
back and think that one one so you know you look at your own behavior I look at
mine and I think I should have done more I think everyone knew exactly the same
way he's a lovely man great awesome stuff but no I think I think he had his
I think he had his sight set and that was that I don't think it was so there's
no game saying the man once he decided on his course of action he just took it
yes he was prepared not to go on much longer do you feel and I think he was I
think he found the places it's not quite good enough for him and not
honestly and a lot of people just harden themselves to the whole nonsense and say
well right the world is exactly perfect but I get on with it I think the weight
of responsibility and you know social and in every other way just overpowered
him he didn't enjoy life as much did he not try going places being in other
areas you know he went to Paris and spent a lot of time there he went to the
country he came to me in various locations and I'm just distinctly
happy all of them just didn't enjoy I think he just trusted the world he
didn't need any filter to do not quite live up to its expectations yes he is
now undergoing a revival or whatever popularity do you think that there's
anybody since him who has touched the sort of genius that he had there's no
one covering that particular area especially in the last of the last
seven or eight years I'm a certain coarsening of music in general has been
a pad to me anyway and the acoustic guitar which was his I suppose is his
medium has fallen from favor but you know with the domain of the folk boom
and all that sort of stuff then it's more and more difficult for acoustic
instrument players and people who are based around that to break through but
there is no one really who's doing that not that I know of maybe someone just
looking at that yeah [Bb] I don't think so remarkable the appeal of the man but
it's on the sleeve notes it says there that his [Ab] parents still get letters from
people from all the way around the world wanting to know about [G] his inspirations
about the way he played his guitar hmm and I dare say it's gonna be around for
a few years yet as well I would imagine sir John thank you for talking to us
it true did you know the man [A] well I did yes [Ab] we did very close to each other he
lived in one part of Hampstead knowledge just heard very quiet [A] very quiet lad
extremely personable and charming when necessary yeah and handsome to a
devastating effect yes the pictures quite stunning pictures I'm gonna miss
a touch of them I [N] can't think of the word I'm thinking of it was very good
why do you think Nick Drake has become the legend that exists today I would
imagine because the quality of the music and his writing it's just very good
music he and he was a very British I think that's one of the things I like
about I think dream Academy has quoted him as being one of their influences
that's right yeah and I think it's because it's British I mean that's it's
that's it's a secret for me doesn't have a perennial appeal because it's hitting
new generations people who have what 15 years younger than Nick are now saying
that this man is important yes what is it is a just inevitably good you can't
really you can't really say that it's bad music so therefore adds a certain
strength what sort of man was he I don't know my first met him he was rather more
out of pain than he became he was always charming delicately witchy but he just
became more and more withdrawn as time went by in the three three and four
years I knew him he became more and more withdrawn I think he's a son of some
sort of depression you saying about you called it melancholia in the Victorian
days absolutely right you were saying about him being eminently British I mean
he went to Marlborough and came right he was only British but I mean he seems to
be a product of the the English middle class that's undoubtedly true and I
think that reflects very well in his music I mean what you see is what you get
it's all it's erudite it's cultured and it's refined I like it what's your
typical singer-songwriter of his period no I have to say that the thing that
sets him apart again is implicit innate Britishness it's while everyone else on
the island roster who was contemporary himself including myself we're having
flirtations with American based sounds [G] [N] in the same way they'll join us with his
first record was a kind of madman across the water or something I'm just gonna
yeah all very all very American based sounds you know the whole idea was to
sound like the band if you could possibly all this kind of stuff and he
was just very quietly going his own way producing but you have a safe [Ab] very
pretty sounds shall we hear another track this is a from his second album
performance this John to my knowledge one was a Christmas affair given by the
Colerty Climax Apprentices so there a Christmas ball he was that really
destroyed him because I think they'd rather listen to the trogs corner again
that's right so I think that was a major blow to his confidence I remember him
being depressed about for days and days and then he did another one at the
festival hall supporting Sandy Denny and a bit more like him there was a good
place for him but he was cripplingly nervous I mean he was just he was
distraught before the gig it was rather embarrassing in fact to see him he was
distinctly uncomfortable on stage I mean the music was fine [N] but he just didn't
like being there so this is the reason that the man didn't play many more gigs
but he just was destroying him I get the impression that it was costing him too
much to go on the stage it was just like no amount of applause or anything else
would would ever have paid him back in the mental effort and energy that he had
to expend did this get worse as time went by because you say the man changed
unfortunately it did yeah he just slipped further away into himself and
divorced himself from the mundane very sad really it wasn't for lack of trying
all kinds of people tried to be friendly and went out of their way to be nice but
I mean I suppose you'd see through that she's being very [E] bright and intelligent
yes well what's in it for you the image of a troubled artist in a sense
[Bb] classic case by Arnik [N] stuff I mean heroic stuff do you think he could have
been helped that the end might not have happened as it did I suppose you to look
back and think that one one so you know you look at your own behavior I look at
mine and I think I should have done more I think everyone knew exactly the same
way he's a lovely man great awesome stuff but no I think I think he had his
I think he had his sight set and that was that I don't think it was so there's
no game saying the man once he decided on his course of action he just took it
yes he was prepared not to go on much longer do you feel and I think he was I
think he found the places it's not quite good enough for him and not
honestly and a lot of people just harden themselves to the whole nonsense and say
well right the world is exactly perfect but I get on with it I think the weight
of responsibility and you know social and in every other way just overpowered
him he didn't enjoy life as much did he not try going places being in other
areas you know he went to Paris and spent a lot of time there he went to the
country he came to me in various locations and I'm just distinctly
happy all of them just didn't enjoy I think he just trusted the world he
didn't need any filter to do not quite live up to its expectations yes he is
now undergoing a revival or whatever popularity do you think that there's
anybody since him who has touched the sort of genius that he had there's no
one covering that particular area especially in the last of the last
seven or eight years I'm a certain coarsening of music in general has been
a pad to me anyway and the acoustic guitar which was his I suppose is his
medium has fallen from favor but you know with the domain of the folk boom
and all that sort of stuff then it's more and more difficult for acoustic
instrument players and people who are based around that to break through but
there is no one really who's doing that not that I know of maybe someone just
looking at that yeah [Bb] I don't think so remarkable the appeal of the man but
it's on the sleeve notes it says there that his [Ab] parents still get letters from
people from all the way around the world wanting to know about [G] his inspirations
about the way he played his guitar hmm and I dare say it's gonna be around for
a few years yet as well I would imagine sir John thank you for talking to us
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_ _ _ contemporary and fellow item recording artists in those days yes it is true is
it true did you know the man [A] well I did yes [Ab] we did very close to each other he
lived in one part of Hampstead knowledge just heard _ very quiet [A] very quiet lad
extremely personable and charming when necessary yeah and handsome to a
devastating effect yes the pictures quite stunning pictures I'm gonna miss
a touch of them I [N] can't think of the _ word I'm thinking of it was very good
_ why do you think Nick Drake has become the legend that exists today I would
imagine because the quality of the music and his writing it's just very good
music he and he was a _ very British I think that's one of the things I like
about I think dream Academy has _ quoted him as being one of their influences _
_ that's right yeah and I think it's because it's British I mean that's it's
that's it's a secret for me doesn't have a perennial appeal because it's hitting
new generations people who have what 15 years younger than Nick are now saying
that this man is important yes what is it is a just inevitably good you can't
really you can't really say that it's bad music so therefore adds a certain
strength what sort of man was he I don't know my first met him he was rather more
out of pain than he became he was always charming delicately witchy but he just
became more and more withdrawn as time went by in the three three and four
years I knew him he became more and more withdrawn I think he's a son of some
sort of depression you saying about you called it melancholia in the Victorian
days absolutely right you were saying about him being eminently British I mean
he went to Marlborough and came right _ he was only British _ but I mean he seems to
be a product of the the English middle class that's undoubtedly true and I
think that reflects very well in his music I mean what you see is what you get _
it's all it's erudite it's cultured and it's refined I like it what's your
typical singer-songwriter of his period no I have to say that the thing that
sets him apart again is implicit innate Britishness it's while everyone else on
the island roster who was contemporary himself including myself we're having
flirtations with American based sounds [G] _ _ [N] in the same way they'll join us with his
_ first record was a kind of madman across the water or something I'm just gonna
yeah all very all very American based sounds you know the whole idea was to
sound like the band if you could possibly all this kind of stuff and he
was just very quietly going his own way producing but you have a safe [Ab] very
pretty sounds shall we hear another track this is a from his second album
performance this John to my knowledge one was a Christmas affair given by the
Colerty Climax Apprentices so there a Christmas ball he was that really
destroyed him because I think they'd rather listen to the trogs corner again
that's right so I think that was a major blow to his confidence I remember him
being depressed about for days and days and then he did another one at the
festival hall supporting Sandy Denny and a bit more like him there was a good
place for him but he was cripplingly nervous I mean he was just he was
distraught before the gig it was rather embarrassing in fact to see him he was
distinctly uncomfortable on stage I mean the music was fine [N] but he just didn't
like being there so this is the reason that the man didn't play many more gigs
but he just was destroying him I get the impression that it was costing him too
much to go on the stage it was just like no amount of applause or anything else
would would ever have paid him back in the mental effort and energy that he had
to expend did this get worse as time went by because you say the man changed
unfortunately it did yeah he just slipped further away into himself and
divorced himself from the mundane very sad really it wasn't for lack of trying
all kinds of people tried to be friendly and went out of their way to be nice but
I mean I suppose you'd see through that she's being very [E] bright and intelligent
_ yes well what's in it for you the image of a troubled artist in a sense
[Bb] classic case by Arnik [N] stuff I mean heroic stuff do you think he could have
been helped that the end might not have happened as it did I suppose you to look
back and think that one one so you know you look at your own behavior I look at
mine and I think I should have done more I think everyone knew exactly the same
way he's a lovely _ man great awesome stuff but no I think I think he had his
I think he had his sight set and that was that I don't think it was so there's
no game saying the man once he decided on his course of action he just took it
yes he was prepared not to go on much longer do you feel and I think he was I
think he found the places it's not quite good enough for him and not
honestly and a lot of people just harden themselves to the whole nonsense and say
well right the world is exactly perfect but I get on with it I think the weight
of responsibility and you know social and _ in every other way just overpowered
him he didn't enjoy life as much did he not try going places being in other
areas you know he went to Paris and spent a lot of time there he went to the
country he came to me in various locations and I'm just distinctly
happy all of them just didn't enjoy I think he just trusted the world he
didn't need any filter to do not quite live up to its expectations yes he is
now undergoing a revival or whatever popularity do you think that there's
anybody since him who has touched the sort of genius that he had there's no
one covering that particular area _ _ especially in the last of the last
seven or eight years I'm a certain coarsening _ of music in general has been
a pad to me anyway _ and the acoustic guitar which was his I suppose is his
medium has fallen from favor but you know with the domain of the folk boom
and all that sort of stuff then it's more and more difficult for acoustic
instrument players and people who are based around that to break through but
there is no one really who's doing that not that I know of maybe someone just
looking at that yeah [Bb] I don't think so remarkable the appeal of the man but
it's on the sleeve notes it says there that his [Ab] parents still get letters from
people from all the way around the world wanting to know about [G] his inspirations
about the way he played his guitar hmm and I dare say it's gonna be around for
a few years yet as well I would imagine sir John thank you for talking to us
it true did you know the man [A] well I did yes [Ab] we did very close to each other he
lived in one part of Hampstead knowledge just heard _ very quiet [A] very quiet lad
extremely personable and charming when necessary yeah and handsome to a
devastating effect yes the pictures quite stunning pictures I'm gonna miss
a touch of them I [N] can't think of the _ word I'm thinking of it was very good
_ why do you think Nick Drake has become the legend that exists today I would
imagine because the quality of the music and his writing it's just very good
music he and he was a _ very British I think that's one of the things I like
about I think dream Academy has _ quoted him as being one of their influences _
_ that's right yeah and I think it's because it's British I mean that's it's
that's it's a secret for me doesn't have a perennial appeal because it's hitting
new generations people who have what 15 years younger than Nick are now saying
that this man is important yes what is it is a just inevitably good you can't
really you can't really say that it's bad music so therefore adds a certain
strength what sort of man was he I don't know my first met him he was rather more
out of pain than he became he was always charming delicately witchy but he just
became more and more withdrawn as time went by in the three three and four
years I knew him he became more and more withdrawn I think he's a son of some
sort of depression you saying about you called it melancholia in the Victorian
days absolutely right you were saying about him being eminently British I mean
he went to Marlborough and came right _ he was only British _ but I mean he seems to
be a product of the the English middle class that's undoubtedly true and I
think that reflects very well in his music I mean what you see is what you get _
it's all it's erudite it's cultured and it's refined I like it what's your
typical singer-songwriter of his period no I have to say that the thing that
sets him apart again is implicit innate Britishness it's while everyone else on
the island roster who was contemporary himself including myself we're having
flirtations with American based sounds [G] _ _ [N] in the same way they'll join us with his
_ first record was a kind of madman across the water or something I'm just gonna
yeah all very all very American based sounds you know the whole idea was to
sound like the band if you could possibly all this kind of stuff and he
was just very quietly going his own way producing but you have a safe [Ab] very
pretty sounds shall we hear another track this is a from his second album
performance this John to my knowledge one was a Christmas affair given by the
Colerty Climax Apprentices so there a Christmas ball he was that really
destroyed him because I think they'd rather listen to the trogs corner again
that's right so I think that was a major blow to his confidence I remember him
being depressed about for days and days and then he did another one at the
festival hall supporting Sandy Denny and a bit more like him there was a good
place for him but he was cripplingly nervous I mean he was just he was
distraught before the gig it was rather embarrassing in fact to see him he was
distinctly uncomfortable on stage I mean the music was fine [N] but he just didn't
like being there so this is the reason that the man didn't play many more gigs
but he just was destroying him I get the impression that it was costing him too
much to go on the stage it was just like no amount of applause or anything else
would would ever have paid him back in the mental effort and energy that he had
to expend did this get worse as time went by because you say the man changed
unfortunately it did yeah he just slipped further away into himself and
divorced himself from the mundane very sad really it wasn't for lack of trying
all kinds of people tried to be friendly and went out of their way to be nice but
I mean I suppose you'd see through that she's being very [E] bright and intelligent
_ yes well what's in it for you the image of a troubled artist in a sense
[Bb] classic case by Arnik [N] stuff I mean heroic stuff do you think he could have
been helped that the end might not have happened as it did I suppose you to look
back and think that one one so you know you look at your own behavior I look at
mine and I think I should have done more I think everyone knew exactly the same
way he's a lovely _ man great awesome stuff but no I think I think he had his
I think he had his sight set and that was that I don't think it was so there's
no game saying the man once he decided on his course of action he just took it
yes he was prepared not to go on much longer do you feel and I think he was I
think he found the places it's not quite good enough for him and not
honestly and a lot of people just harden themselves to the whole nonsense and say
well right the world is exactly perfect but I get on with it I think the weight
of responsibility and you know social and _ in every other way just overpowered
him he didn't enjoy life as much did he not try going places being in other
areas you know he went to Paris and spent a lot of time there he went to the
country he came to me in various locations and I'm just distinctly
happy all of them just didn't enjoy I think he just trusted the world he
didn't need any filter to do not quite live up to its expectations yes he is
now undergoing a revival or whatever popularity do you think that there's
anybody since him who has touched the sort of genius that he had there's no
one covering that particular area _ _ especially in the last of the last
seven or eight years I'm a certain coarsening _ of music in general has been
a pad to me anyway _ and the acoustic guitar which was his I suppose is his
medium has fallen from favor but you know with the domain of the folk boom
and all that sort of stuff then it's more and more difficult for acoustic
instrument players and people who are based around that to break through but
there is no one really who's doing that not that I know of maybe someone just
looking at that yeah [Bb] I don't think so remarkable the appeal of the man but
it's on the sleeve notes it says there that his [Ab] parents still get letters from
people from all the way around the world wanting to know about [G] his inspirations
about the way he played his guitar hmm and I dare say it's gonna be around for
a few years yet as well I would imagine sir John thank you for talking to us