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Re: Nick Drake on film?
Oct 11, 2015, 23:04
Stevo wrote:
Quite possibly a lot less likely, an unknown artist on a regional show before widespread home video? & in a time when tape wiping was common.
Not sure when Drake started getting more widespread recognition.
Was it before the Fruit Tree box set?
I think his sister was almost a household name though.


He obviously got reviews, etc, at the time but as someone who started reading the music papers after that I'd say he was really obscure by then. By 1979 I'd seen his name in print (someone writing in for info and his work being praised) but I had never actually heard him until my Economics teacher lent me Bryter Layter in 1979. A few months later Fruit Tree came out and that kinda started it IMO - I remember Dave Fanning playing something around that time on RTE. That was the first time I'd ever heard him on the radio. But even after he was still really unknown - it was, for a long time, down to us fans spreading the word slowly but surely IMO.
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