Sandison remembers: “There was a load of debris in the basement, and they said ‘This is going to be your office’, so I said ‘Thanks a lot’, because there were desks piled up and everything, and part of the debris was the framed original Pink Moon painting. The label expanded its premises into a house near its original office. Interestingly a friend of Nick Drake’s sister Gabrielle, was a talented artistĪnd illustrator who worked for Punch magazine and created covers for Penguin,Ī curious epilogue to this story is one told by David Sandison who was press officer at Island Records during that time Nick Drake was a recording artist with the label. With its use of household objects and the way they float over the landscape. Moon: a reissue of Spooky Tooth’s 1968 album It’s All About, retitled Tobaccoįor Pink Moon has a surrealistic feel to it, somewhat Daliesque and even more Magritte-inspired Trevithick created one album sleeve prior to Pink Something.” Sullivan had a good instinct in picking the artist, but she I just had a feeling that he might come up with I’m pretty certain he hadn’tĭone any album sleeves before. His portfolio was very different, very strange. Went for plan B: “I’d seen Michael Trevithick’s work and liked it. Quickly realizing that the photos were not quite the material thatĭraws hordes of people into the record shops to buy the album, Annie Sullivan It was like I was intruding on private grief.” Morris continues: “It was a bleak, grey day… Nick was totallyĬooperative but said very little, couldn’t interact and found it difficult to He was just standing around, looking…uncomfortably Nick.” It was just, ‘stand there, stand there, look over there. Morris remembers: “He wouldn’t even look at me, let alone do anything. His posture and facial expression are melancholy personified, desolate and withdrawn. The pictures are a visual snapshot of his mental state at the time, a man sinking deep into depression. Drake wore a turtleneck sweater and an overcoat. Keith Morris, who took the fantastic photos on the covers of Drake’s two previous albums, Five Leaves Left and Bryter Layter, took the singer to Hampstead Heath. A non-talkative Nick Drake offered no clues beyond the album title, so she went with the standard approach of a photo shoot. Annie Sullivan, creative director at Island, was tasked with the sleeve design. After he left the office they found the tapes with the label Pink Moon. After recording the full album during two late night sessions in October 1971, he delivered the master tapes to Island Records, who were unaware of an upcoming album. Pink Moon was Nick Drake’s final studio album, a collection of short songs featuring only the singer accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, and piano on the title track.
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