Five Leaves Left

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Five Leaves Left

Studio album by Nick Drake
Released	September 1, 1969
Recorded	Sound Techniques Studio, London
Genre	Folk
Length	41:43
Label	Island Records
Producer(s)	Joe Boyd
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Nick Drake chronology
	Five Leaves Left (1969)	Bryter Layter (1970)

Five Leaves Left, recorded in 1969, was the first of three albums by British folk musician Nick Drake. Like Bryter Layter and unlike Pink Moon, this album contains no completely solo songs. Nick was accompanied by members of the British folk-rock group Fairport Convention.

Five Leaves Left was ranked 85th in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time. In 2003, the album was ranked number 283 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

The title of the album is said to be derived from a contemporary message contained within packets of Rizla cigarette papers, which warned people that only five papers were left in the packet. It is sometimes suggested that this was aimed at people rolling marijuana joints, since many joints required five individual papers in order to be assembled.

Although, there has been some speculation into the name being acquired from O. Henry's short novel The Last Leaf, in which a woman states that she can happily die when all the leaves have fallen from her tree, she states that it will not be long as there are only five leaves left [1].