Nick Drake (45 page)

PINK MOON

ILPS 9184, 25 February 1972 (CD: IMCD 94, April 1990) ‘Pink Moon', ‘Place To Be', ‘Road', ‘Which Will', ‘Horn', ‘Things Behind The Sun', ‘Know', ‘Parasite', ‘Ride', ‘Harvest Breed', ‘From The Morning'.

FRUIT TREE

NDSP100, 9 March 1979

Island's three-LP box set of the original albums, with Nick's four final recordings added to the end of
Pink Moon:

‘Rider On The Wheel', ‘Black Eyed Dog', ‘Hanging On A Star', ‘Voice From The Mountain'.

FRUIT TREE

HNBX 5302, August 1986 (CD: HNCD 5402, December 1991 in LP-sized box; reissued August 1996 in CD-sized box, same catalogue number)

Hannibal's revised and expanded four-LP box set, which restored
Pink Moon
to its original format and added the new album
Time Of No Reply.

TIME OF NO REPLY

HNBL 1318 (CD: HNCD 1318, March 1987)

Posthumous fourth album including seven new songs and the four tracks from the final session, initially only available as part of the revised box set.

‘Time Of No Reply', ‘I Was Made To Love Magic', ‘Joey', ‘Clothes Of Sand', ‘Man In A Shed', ‘Mayfair', ‘Fly', ‘The Thoughts Of Mary Jane', ‘Been Smoking Too Long', ‘Strange Meeting II, ‘Rider On The Wheel', ‘Black Eyed Dog', ‘Hanging On A Star', ‘Voice From The Mountain'.

NICK DRAKE COMPILATIONS

HEAVEN IN A WILD FLOWER

ILPS 9826, 28 May 1985 (CD: IMCD 91, April 1990) Compiled by Trevor Dann from Nick's three original albums. ‘Fruit Tree', ‘Cello Song', ‘Thoughts Of Mary Jane', ‘Northern Sky', ‘River Man', ‘At The Chime Of A City Clock', ‘Introduction', ‘Hazey Jane I', ‘Hazey Jane II,' ‘Pink Moon', ‘Road', ‘Which Will', ‘Things Behind The Sun', ‘Time Has Told Me'.

WAY TO BLUE

(IMCD 196, 31 May 1994).

Compiled by Joe Boyd from original three albums plus
Time Of No Reply.

‘Cello Song', ‘Hazey Jane I', ‘Way To Blue', ‘Things Behind The Sun', ‘River Man', ‘Poor Boy', ‘Time Of No Reply', ‘From The Morning', ‘One Of These Things First', ‘Northern Sky', ‘Which Will', ‘Hazey Jane II, ‘Time Has Told Me', ‘Pink Moon', ‘Black Eyed Dog', ‘Fruit Tree'.

MULTI-ARTIST COMPILATIONS

NICE ENOUGH TO EAT
(IWPS6, 1969) Includes ‘Time Has Told Me'.

BUMPERS
(IDP1, 1970) Includes ‘Hazey Jane I'.

EL PEA
(IDLP1, 1971) Includes ‘One Of These Things First'.

VOICES
(HNCD 8301, 1990) Includes ‘Black Eyed Dog'.

FOLK ROUTES
(IMCD 197, 1994) Includes ‘Road'.

Latterly two compilations appeared within weeks of each other, each featuring a Nick Drake track:

AND I WRITE THE SONGS: 34 SINGER/SONGWRITER CLASSICS

(Debutante 553 062-2, 1996)

Chris De Burgh finally appears on disc with Nick, alongside Richard Thompson, Tim Hardin, Sandy Denny and John Martyn. Nick is rather bafflingly represented by the instrumental ‘Bryter Layter'.

HEARTBEAT: NUMBER ONE LOVE SONGS OF THE SIXTIES
(RADCD 46, 1996)

CD spin-off from enormously popular TV series. This forty-four-track double CD sold over 250,000 copies in the UK, thereby allowing Nick Drake to reach his widest-ever audience. ‘Fruit Tree' was included (along with Jim Croce's ‘Time In A Bottle') as ‘the music featured in the episode where Nick lost Kate'. Thirty-nine of the tracks were number-one hits – in the column for highest chart position, alongside ‘Fruit Tree' stands the legend ‘N/A', indicating ‘not applicable'.

RELATED RELEASES

NINE OF SWORDS
by Scott Appel

(Schoolkids' Records, SKR 1521, 1995)

Includes four instrumentals, ‘Bird Flew By', ‘Blossom', ‘Our Season', ‘Place To Be', which Nick never released; ‘Parasite', which appeared on
Pink Moon
, and ‘Nearly/Far Leys', Appel's reworking of a Nick Drake original.

BRITTLE DAYS: A TRIBUTE TO NICK DRAKE

(Imaginary Records ILLCD 026, September 1992) Deleted. ‘River Man' (The Changelings), ‘At The Chime Of A City Clock' (The High Llamas), ‘Pink Moon' (Loop), ‘Road' (No Man), ‘Cello Song' (The Walkabouts), ‘Joey' (Shellyann Orphan), ‘From The Morning' (Scott Appel), ‘Fruit Tree' (The Times), ‘Know' (Martyn Bates), ‘Voice From The Mountain' (The Swinging Swine), ‘Time Has Told Me' (Nikki Sudden & The French Revolution), ‘Fly' (Tracy Santa), ‘Northern Sky' (Clive Gregson), ‘Hazey Jane' (Scott Appel), ‘River Man' (R. Stevie Moore)

Nick Drake and associated CDs can be obtained from: Rock Relics, PO Box 50, Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear DH4 5YP, UK.

Scott Appel's
Nine of Swords
available from: Glassfinger Inc, PO Box 141, Lincoln Park, New Jersey, 07035-1217, USA.

Pink Moon
is a quarterly Nick Drake fanzine. Details from: Jason Creed, 34 Kingsbridge Road, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey KT12 2BZ, UK.

Marlborough College, C1 House Relay Team, 1965; Nick Drake is standing third from left.

Marlborough College, Cl House Lowers Rugby XV, 1964; Nick Drake is seated far right. Nick's Housemaster Dennis Silk is standing far left.

Marlborough College House photograph, Summer term 1965. Nick is standing 2nd row, centre, directly behind his Housemaster.

Nick's parents, Rodney and Molly Drake, at Far Leys.

The Drake family home at Tanworth-in-Arden, photographed from the garden.

Nick's first photo session for Island Records, just prior to the release of
Five Leaves Left
in 1969.

A 1967 lino cut of Nick playing the guitar in Aix-en-Provence.