“I always say that Nick was born with a skin too few,” Gabrielle Drake on her brother.
It took a ‘99, Pink Moon-accompanied Volkswagen commercial to jumpstart the posthumous career of the great Nick Drake. The following year, Dutch director Jeroen Berkvens came out with a documentary on the tortured British singer-songwriter, A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake.
Featuring interviews with Drake’s sister Gabrielle, producer Joe Boyd, and principal arranger, Robert Kirby (who died last October), A Skin Too Few’s a fascinating look at Drake, who, sadly, took his own life at the age of 26. It’s been floating around in pieces on YouTube, but the below video’s in one high-quality piece.