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Fact #61801

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Short story:

Critically-lauded UK singer-songwriter Nick D rake dies at home in his sleep, after an overdose of Tryptizol.

Full article:

Robert Smith (The Cure) : Nick Drake's on the other side of the coin to Jimi Hendrix. He was very quiet and withdrawn ... I think also that because he had an untimely death like Jimi Hendrix, he was never able to compromise his early work. He was never able to put a foot wrong. It's a morbid romanticism, but there is something attractive about that