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£20 a week was an absolute fortune early 70s[edit]

'couldn't afford shoes?' 'frugal existance'?

109.157.75.97 (talk) 06:13, 29 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe they were expensive shoes? I guess we need to see what Nick actually wrote in the NME in 1975. Martinevans123 (talk) 07:44, 29 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

why did he need 'expensive shoes' - he didn't go anywhere — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.157.75.97 (talk) 01:03, 6 April 2018‎ (UTC)[reply]

I think he occasionally visited shoe shops. Martinevans123 (talk) 07:52, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I believe this information was extrapolated from the fact that he typically wore the same pair often (many contemporaries mention this fact as unusual) and wore them out completely.

Keith Morris mentions that he often wore the same outfits multiple times and it has been suspected that the reason why his shirts looked so ill-fitting in photographs were because they were his father's cast-off's and not his own clothing. (I will find a source for both if needed) It is my suspicion that this is where both the shoes and "frugal existence" comments came from. 67.81.155.109 (talk) 08:14, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This would be interesting to add if true. Ceoil (talk) 15:26, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting article[edit]

There's a new book about Drake's friendship with Martyn. See https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/15/nick-drake-john-martyn-complex-friendship-small-hours-extract --84.64.249.140 (talk) 12:10, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Proper attribution: Indigo Beach should attribute the changes made to my IP address[edit]

To be intellectually honest, at the end of the article, the removal of the critic's ad hominem and bigoted comments should be attributed to my IP address.

I made these arguments several weeks prior and a Wikipedia editor kept reverting them. Even though a possibly critic, the comments I indicated should be deleted did not address Drake's music, and were little more than a cheap shot regarding Drake's depression and disability. 2601:6C5:300:B230:B4C2:F17D:A842:B895 (talk) 01:34, 31 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You were removing the entire review, not just the part that you considered a "cheap shot". ... discospinster _talk 01:55, 31 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Born in Burma[edit]

in the article it claims he was english, yet born in burma. surely people born in burma are Burmese?

cheers 79.79.111.189 (talk) 08:21, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Burma was a British colony at the time, his parents were English and he was ethnically English, moving back to the UK shortly after. Unless he openly claimed Burmese allegiance, there is no reason to call him anything other than English or British. freshacconci (✉) 15:57, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]