{"id":4215,"date":"2014-04-02T07:39:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T07:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/04\/02\/unheard-nick-drake-song-released-40-years-after-singers-death\/"},"modified":"2014-04-02T07:39:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T07:39:25","slug":"unheard-nick-drake-song-released-40-years-after-singers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/04\/02\/unheard-nick-drake-song-released-40-years-after-singers-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Unheard Nick Drake song released 40 years after singer’s death"},"content":{"rendered":"


An unheard Nick Drake song is to be released 40 years after the singer’s death. \u201cReckless Jane\u201d, written with Welsh musician and friend Beverley Martyn, was started just months before Drake died. The two wrote the lyrics to the folk song together and first began working on the music during a jam session in Martyn\u2019s home in Hastings. It lay half-finished until Martyn, ex-wife of guitarist John Martyn, decided to complete the song last year for her new album.
She said: \u201cI couldn\u2019t even think about the song for so long because it brought up so much pain. It took a while to finish after that point.\u201d The pair worked on the song during the spring of 1974, when Martyn was 27 and Drake around the age of 25, shortly before he died from an overdose of anti-depressants.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe song came out of a bit of fun,\u201d Martyn told The Independent. \u201cWe tried to think of all the things we could rhyme with Jane, but \u2018hear her laughing like a drain\u2019 didn\u2019t make the cut!\u201d<\/p>\n

The song\u2019s character Jane is partly based on Martyn and other female \u2018muses\u2019, two of which were called Jane.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne even had six kids by different dads and lived in a bus,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Drake was good friends with Martyn and her husband John, and would often babysit for their children when they all lived in north London.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the difficulty of finishing the song, she said: \u201cNick is in my life at all times. Never a day goes by that I don\u2019t think of him, of something funny he said. I wish more people could have seen that side of him, his dry humour.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martyn\u2019s new album, The Phoenix and the Turtle, is released on 22 April.<\/p>\n

Song weblink:https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/walesatthefringe\/reckless-jane<\/p>\n

Source: The Independent<\/p>\n

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