Richard Morton Jack is the editor of the music reference books Galactic Ramble and Endless Trip, and the author of Psychedelia: 101 Iconic Underground Rock Albums 1966-70. He founded Sunbeam Records, which has reissued over 100 rock, jazz and folk albums, and edits the rock history magazine Flashback. He is the co-founder of the music marketplace and archive elvinyl.com.
"This is the book we've been waiting for - the one Nick's legacy deserves and so badly needs. Richard Morton Jack has reconstructed Nick's life with great sensitivity and care, and in remarkable detail. It is a biography to be treasured -- Joe Boyd The definitive account. Faultless in its detail. The Drake completist could ask for nothing else -- Mick Brown * Daily Telegraph **** * Illuminating. The definitive word on Drake -- Kitty Empire * Observer * Morton Jack's book honours its title: it is The Life, not just a death, a rich depiction of Drake's world and the way he moved through it . . . this book might be as close as anyone's going to get to finding him * Sunday Times * Drake's flickering presence in 1970s folk-rock, recognised as a maestro by peers but not the public, is told with sensitivity and skill * Financial Times * Through the careful accretion of granular details a fully formed human being emerges from the myth. Particularly welcome are the vignettes that show Drake at his most un-wraith-like . . . These very human moments shine like starlight * Irish Independent * This phenomenally detailed biography reveals how much those who knew Drake loved, admired and puzzled over him * Oldie * Morton Jack resists the temptation to romanticise Drake's life * Uncut * Morton Jack's book is the first of its kind to be written in tandem with Drake's family and seeks to bring an equal measure of light and shade to an English musical figurehead who has become uniquely mythologised . . . Morton Jack's book is founded on ""minutiae"", bringing its subject into unparalleled focus * i News * Famously, no film of Drake exists, but through its granular detail . . . this book feels as close as you might come to seeing him in motion again * The Times *"