A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake

00:01:06 I don't think he wanted to be a star, but...

00:02:56 magical quality, you know...

00:03:59 She was very beautiful and she was very creative.

00:05:17 and when he went to the next school he became the head boy of his first house.

00:08:24 And you can see, somewhere, the similarity and the influence.

00:11:06 It was always very clean and with great precision...

00:12:09 "I think I've thrown off one or two useless and restrictive complexes...

00:15:27 and... he was a man of few words, my brother.

00:16:46 Every note... So that you really can...

00:17:51 which is really sort of... well, you'll notice when you hear it, it's...

00:19:54 At the time, when we sat in the control room, it sounded like this.

00:23:02 And he never really did another show.

00:25:46 If you're presented with somebody like this, from a privileged background...

00:27:24 who were extraordinarily...

00:28:40 That didn't make any difference. He felt that he had failed...

00:30:44 of the lyrics of "Hanging on a Star".

00:31:45 I'm not sure I buy that entirely but I know what she means.

00:33:15 of worry, discontent, and narrow joy...

00:34:25 but it was very agonizing seeing him trying to do those recordings...

00:36:33 pills that had been prescribed for him called Tryptizol...

00:37:58 It was my opening night.

00:38:55 I knew.

00:41:53 That's the tragedy which is always there...

00:45:27 have found his music such a help.