{"product_id":"remembered-for-a-while-by-gabrielle-drake-9781444792591","title":"Remembered for a While","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Probably the most ambitious, generous and thorough volume about a musician to see publication’ \u003cem\u003eMouth Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe authorised companion to the music of Nick Drake, compiled, composed, and edited by Cally Callomon and Gabrielle Drake, with contributions from Nick's friends, critics, adherents, family, and from Nick Drake himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRemembered for a While\u003c\/em\u003e is not a biography. It is, rather, an attempt to cast a few shards of light on Nick Drake the poet, the musician, the singer, the friend, son, and brother, who was also more than all of these. We hope it will accompany all those in search of an elusive artist, whose haunting presence defies analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book contains:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn-depth interviews with many of Nick's friends\u003c\/strong\u003e, most notably Paul Wheeler, Nick's close friend from Cambridge days, a singer-songwriter who, of all Nick's friends, perhaps best understood, from personal experience, Nick's journey through musical creation to despair and back again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA selection of photos from all eras—some never seen before—\u003c\/strong\u003ewith reproductions of documents such as the scrapbook Molly Drake kept of her son's press cuttings, and the original and rejected album covers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eImages of Nick's \u003cstrong\u003ehandwritten and typed lyrics\u003c\/strong\u003e, including the lyrics of some songs for which the music has never been found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNewly commissioned pieces by Nick's friends\u003c\/strong\u003e Jeremy Harmer, Brian Wells, Robin Frederick, and the poet Will Stone. Contributions also from the sleeve designer Michael Trevithick, Island Records's Ann Sullivan, and the photographer and artist Nigel Waymouth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExtracts from Nick's letters\u003c\/strong\u003e—part of an extensive correspondence that exists between Nick and his parents, which charts their relationship from the time he first went to boarding school until the time he came home, when his depression had settled upon him and he felt he had nowhere else to go. From this point, Nick's life was documented by his father, Rodney Drake, \u003cstrong\u003ewho kept a detailed diary\u003c\/strong\u003e, as he and his wife Molly struggled to understand their son's state of mind and how to help him. Passages from this poignant record are included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA short musical guide\u003c\/strong\u003e to each song's key and tuning to accompany the lyrics, together with an explanatory interpretation of Nick's guitar performance, the result of several years’ close study by singer-songwriter Chris Healey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA comprehensive guide to all of \u003cstrong\u003eNick's live performances.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd \u003cstrong\u003ea lengthy essay by noted music critic Pete Paphides\u003c\/strong\u003e, which includes interviews with Nick's musical collaborators and friends—his producer Joe Boyd, his recording engineer John Wood, and his orchestrator, the late Robert Kirby—as well as descriptions of the recording process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597838369004,"sku":"9781444792591","price":130.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781444792591-remembered-for-a-while.jpg?v=1777959420","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/remembered-for-a-while-by-gabrielle-drake-9781444792591","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}