Hi.....my name is baz and i used to rent a bedsit in the same house in haverstock hill,north london as nick drake....at the time i was working as an assistant photographer in camden town......of an evening after work upon getting into the hallway of the house i could hear some very different guitar music coming from one of the ground floor rooms.......i assumed that it was a record or tape playing until.....one night i heard the sound of something like a guitar string breaking and heard a rather loud......oh shit!......i decided ,that since i was learning the classical guitar at the time, i...

Like many people, I first heard Nick Drake while watching a Volkswagon commercial in 2004. It quickly became my favorite commercial and I'd always turn it up when it came on. Eventually I decided to figure out to whom that beautiful voice belonged. I quickly found his name and several of his other songs on YouTube. My husband and I listened to them over and over, in awe of the simple beauty each one contained. The music touched something deep inside us and we eagerly went in search of more information about Nick. Since we had never heard of him before, we were thinking that he was a contemporary...