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Deepinder Cheema
Deepinder Cheema
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Re: Nick Drake on film?
Oct 12, 2015, 03:18
Yorkshirepedestrian wrote:
Nick played at the Haworth Arms here in Hull when my dad's band was resident there. No idea if he saw him or not though.
I was just looking at the short film of an unknown 1970s festival and it does seem to be him walking by. You don't see his face and the film has a haunting, lonely quality to it...
It's apparently likely that Nick did perform once on BBC TV but there is no surviving footage from this, but you never know..
There is also some footage of Nick as a child which you can see in the documentary A Skin Too Few on Youtube.
All adds to the mythos I guess.
I recently became obsessed with an Edwardian artist named Austin Osman Spare.
He was hugely talented yet ignored and forgotten. His is a fairly sad story too, in a different way, and no recording of him has survived.
Apparently he was interviewed for a BBC radio programreme but only a transcript survives.



There is a magnificent b&w plate of Osman Spare in this book by Clifford Bax when Spare lived in Borough. I had a copy but sold it to london bookseller. http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=11000673209&searchurl=bi%3D0%26ds%3D30%26sts%3Dt%26bx%3Doff%26sortby%3D20%26tn%3Dideas+and+people%26an%3Dbax%26recentlyadded%3Dall
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