The 1960s artist Elton John hailed as the last “proper songwriter”
The end of an era.
Nick Drake
The singer Paul Weller barely believed was human: “Where the fuck did that come from?”
An otherworldly talent…
The 1972 album that inspired Tyler Ballgame’s beautiful debut record: “There is such power”
An introverted classic.
How the Nick Drake bootleg craze was started by his dad back in 1957
“He would give the tapes away…”
The childhood trauma underlying John Martyn’s best work
“Underneath he suffered a lot of self-doubt”.
