Nick Drake is Dead

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I had no idea he died so young. What are we to make of such tragic stories as Nick Drake and Ian Curtis and Jimi Hendrix? Should we be satisfied with their romanticly short lives or pout in anger at the unfairness of it all?

― mike hanle y, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, there is something about having never to see such figures end up looking like the walking corpses that Mick or Keith did, say, that provides an appeal. And if what they recorded was limited enough in scope -- a couple of albums, no more -- then it's easier to look at the whole and go, "Unparalled genius!" than if they had kept going and recording and eventually did AOR fusion records with Sting and Kenny G.

But that's looking at their work and image rather than the people themselves, and ain't no doubt that their families and friends would rather have had them around than not. Personally, I think that's what's key here, and in situations like this I think of those left behind. Do you think Deborah Curtis would have wanted to walk into the house and find Ian C's corpse there, even if they were about to formally separate? Or Drake's parents finding his corpse in bed, or Billy Mackenzie's father finding his body in a shed? Those are fates I wouldn't wish on anybody, but I can't speak for the departed and why they did what they did, who could?

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dON'T FORGET THE FANS THAT ALSO REGRET THE DEATH. SUICIDES'CRIME IS WHAT HAPPENS TO THE PEOPLE LEFT BEHIND

― Mike Hanle y, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wouldn't ignore the fans, no, but I'd like to think that family and friends hold a greater connection for the person as such...

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

UNLESS YOU'RE TAMMY FAYE BAKER

― Mike Hanle y, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There are always exceptions.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

bEANS mEANS hEINZ

― sOMEONE, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dead?! So no tour then? He could have made a mint.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why not take the time to put yourself off 'Closer' forever? (scroll down a bit)

― DG, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

for the first time in my life I agree with Alan Mcgee.

― chris, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mcgees bands are for angst ridden people who live with their mums.

― gareth, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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― DG, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

GRRRRRRRRR

― RickyT, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Just be happy he's not still making Biff Bang Pow records

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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