"There was quite a lot of small detail that I was able to fill in," says Morton Jack, who recently visited the Wikipedia page on Drake and gave up counting the factual errors when he reached 50. His research suggests that, contrary to what some believe, the musician was not a heroin addict he was not gay he had not been abused at school and conflict with his father was not at the root of his problems. The author interviewed 200 people from all areas of Drake’s life and was given access to his family's private papers. "And actually, peeling that back and getting a really good consensus from a large spread of people who knew him in different ways was very satisfying." "Quite a lot of assumptions have arisen because people tend to mythologise these iconic entertainment figures who die young," Morton Jack tells BBC Culture. It also serves to correct many misconceptions. The biography contains no shocking new revelation, no discovery that turns on its head everything we thought we knew about Drake, but rather provides an absorbing portrait of the man and his milieu through the accumulation of fascinating detail. The Endless Coloured Ways, a collection of 23 of his songs by artists such as David Gray, Fontaines DC, Self Esteem and John Grant, is released this Friday, and a definitive new biography, Nick Drake: The Life, by Richard Morton Jack, has just been published. And now, almost half a century after his death, Drake is being rediscovered all over again.
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