Pink Moon, by Amanda Petrusich (33 1/3 series, Continuum 2007)

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Another in this terrific series - this time on Nick Drake's third album Pink Moon, the last recorded before his tragic and untimely death in 1974. Nick Drake was almost completely ignored by the music industry and the public until well after his death. This book traces his career, his depression, likely suicide (some still maintain his death was accidental); and the subsequent, almost miraculous growth in his reputation and album sales. His fragile and delicate songs and guitar style have since found a place in many thousands of music fans hearts, triggered in part by the use of the song Pink Moon in a television commercial for Volkswagon which went to air in the US in 2000. It's an incredible story, and this book will certainly make you want to listen again and again to these beautiful songs.