PINK MOON
NICK DRAKE
(1971)
A1: PINK MOON (2:06); A2: PLACE TO BE (2:43); A3: ROAD (2:02); A4: WHICH WILL (2:58); A5: HORN (1:23); A6: THINGS BEHIND THE SUN (3:57).
B1: KNOW (2:25); B2: PARASITE (3:36); B3: FREE RIDE (3:06); B4: HARVEST BREED (1:37); B5: FROM THE MORNING (2:32).
CATEGORY: ACOUSTIC ROCK | DURATION: 28 MINUTES
The third, final and definitive album by Nick Drake, the rock star who was never a rock star. Drake never went electric either; like side two of Dylan’s Bringing It All Back Home, Pink Moon is beautiful rock music for voice and acoustic guitar. Nick Drake released no more work, and died from a prescription drugs overdose in 1974, legally adjudged to have been suicide. It is often said that Pink Moon confirms such suicidal tendencies, but nothing about the album actually suggests that; on the contrary, Pink Moon is a radical celebration of life in all its complex phases.
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT YOUNG (1964-2014)
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