>The depression that had plagued him for the previous fou

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>The depression that had plagued him for the previous four years had now settled on him like a shroud. The talent that had shaped three consummately beautiful albums among the most beautiful ever to emerge from British pop music could find no greater expression than strumming the same chords over and over again on his Gibson acoustic guitar. His parents came to see it as a sign.

>At some point in the long afternoon, he would stand up, put the guitar to one side, leave the room and, without a word, set off in his car. Two, three or four hours later the telephone call would come. Unable to face the ordeal of stopping and buying petrol, he had run to a standstill. His father would patiently drive the 40, 60 or 80 miles to collect him.

>When Nick Drake died on November 25 1974, at the age of 26, from an overdose of antidepressants, it was a tragedy that passed largely unnoticed. The three albums which he had made in his short lifetime were all, by any strictly commercial criterion, failures.

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