Richard Morton Jack's other books include Galactic Ramble, Endless Trip and Labyrinth. He has overseen reissues of many classic rock, jazz and folk albums, and edits the music history magazine Flashback. He is the co-founder of the music marketplace and archive elvinyl.com.
This is the book we've been waiting for - the one Nick's legacy
deserves and so badly needs. Richard Morton Jack has reconstructed
Nick's life with great sensitivity and care, and in remarkable
detail. It is a biography to be treasured
*Joe Boyd*
The definitive account. Faultless in its detail. The Drake
completist could ask for nothing else
*Daily Telegraph *****
Morton Jack's book honours its title: it is The Life, not just a
death, a rich depiction of Drake's world and the way he moved
through it . . . this book might be as close as anyone's going to
get to finding him
*Sunday Times*
The most factual and detailed picture of the singer's twenty-six
years on earth we are ever likely to read, debunking many of the
myths
*Guardian*
Illuminating. The definitive word on Drake
*Observer*
Drake's flickering presence in 1970s folk-rock, recognised as a
maestro by peers but not the public, is told with sensitivity and
skill
*Financial Times*
The account worthy of a musical messiah
*The Spectator*
Richard Morton Jack's Nick Drake: The Life is a model of its kind -
a biography that clears up dozens of mysteries and permits the
reader to contemplate something larger: the lasting wonder and
power of Drake's songs. Nick Drake: The Life is the book we have
needed
*Wall Street Journal*
Famously, no film of Drake exists, but through its granular detail
. . . this book feels as close as you might come to seeing him in
motion again
*The Times*
Through the careful accretion of granular details a fully formed
human being emerges from the myth. Particularly welcome are the
vignettes that show Drake at his most un-wraith-like . . . These
very human moments shine like starlight
*Irish Independent*
Morton Jack has done a tremendous job
*Sun*
The most complete and authoritative study of Nick Drake's life and
work to date, an outstanding document of an extraordinary
artist
*Irish Times*
[Nick Drake's] story has been told before but the detail and
research evident here must qualify as the definitive last word
*Hot Press best books of 2023*
Written with the blessing and involvement of his Estate and his
sister Gabrielle (who wrote a foreword) Richard Morton Jack gives a
private insight, courtesy of personal documents like letters,
journals, and diaries
*Sunday Independent music memoirs of 2023*
This phenomenally detailed biography reveals how much those who
knew Drake loved, admired and puzzled over him
*Oldie*
Morton Jack resists the temptation to romanticise Drake's life
*Uncut*
Morton Jack's book is the first of its kind to be written in tandem
with Drake's family and seeks to bring an equal measure of light
and shade to an English musical figurehead who has become uniquely
mythologised . . . Morton Jack's book is founded on "minutiae",
bringing its subject into unparalleled focus
*i News*
Nick Drake's story seems made for myth
***** Record Collector*
Reading this immensely detailed and thoroughly engaging biography
is something of a mixed joy for a fan like me . . . I knew the
story of course. But it's told here in such a stark and unflinching
manner that it's a bit like being hooked by a dark, sad and
tortuous thriller
*Nation Cymru*
Nick Drake: The Life sets out to finally provide a detailed account
of his life as the first biography of Drake to have the blessing
and involvement from his sister and estate. Jack draws on extensive
research material, including new interviews with friends, family,
and collaborators, as well as previously unseen essays, private
correspondence, and his father's diaries
*Bristol 24/7*
This is a terrific biography - a good introduction if you know
nothing about him and yet a good buy for those who do, as it will
bring light onto this extraordinary talent
*Lindfield Life*
The detail and research evident here must qualify as the definitive
last word.
*Hot Press*
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