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Nick Drake

Nick Drake

British singer-songwriter

Acclaimed British singer/songwriter who produced three albums of intimate, somber beauty, gaining a cult following years after his early death.

Born	June 19, 1948
Hometown	Rangoon, Burma
Height	6'3" (1.91m)

Parents

Molly Drake

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‘I wrote it in a bedsit on Nick Drake’s guitar’: how the Dream Academy made Life in a Northern Town

‘When I played it to Paul Simon, he suggested changing the title – saying, “No one’s going to know how to ask for A Hey Ah Ma Ma Ma in a record store”’

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