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Writer and journalist Patrick Humphries is the author of acclaimed biographies of Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, and Richard Thompson. He lives in London, England.

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Nick Drake: The Biography

3.77 avg rating — 1,144 ratings — published 1997 — 11 editions
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The Many Lives of Tom Waits

3.38 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 1989 — 11 editions
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Small Change: A Life of Tom...

3.26 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions
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Richard Thompson: The Biogr...

3.60 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions
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Cleopatra and the Undoing o...

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Bruce Springsteen

3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1986 — 5 editions
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Rolling Stones 69

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The Boy in the Bubble: A Bi...

3.26 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions
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Films Of Alfred Hitchcock

3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1986 — 6 editions
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Meet on the Ledge: Fairport...

3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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“Brian Wells recalls, during a day spent with Nick in his bedroom at Far Leys, picking up a guitar and starting to play. Recognizing the riff, Nick took up his saxophone, and for a while the two jammed away on Henry Mancini’s familiar, throbbing ‘Peter Gunn’ theme. ‘I think he was a sensitive guy,’ Brian says. ‘After he’d been in the psychiatric hospital… I was talking about Bryter Layter, and getting him to play it, and talking about tracks on it, because he would show me tunings. This is when he had gone back to Tanworth … and I would go up there just to hang out and have a laugh. And then we’d play tracks off Pink Moon, and I remember saying, God, if I’d made that record and it hadn’t sold, I’d have been very pissed off. And he said: “Well, now you know what’s going on with me.” He actually said that. Which was rare for him, because normally he was very unforthcoming”
Patrick Humphries, Nick Drake: The Biography

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