Northern Sky
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Northern Sky is a song from Nick Drake's 1970 album Bryter Layter. The song, written in DADGDG tuning, [1] features piano, organ and Celesta, performed by former Velvet Underground member, John Cale. [2]
In 2004, the NME described the song as the "greatest English love song of modern times"
The Dream Academy's 1985 world-wide hit single Life in a Northern Town was inspired by and in tribute to "Northern Sky".
The song was included on the soundtracks to the romantic comedies, Serendipity (2000) and Fever Pitch (2005).
[edit] References
- ^ Dann, Trevor. Darker than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake (2006), (Hardback) Portrait. ISBN 0-7499-5095-1
- ^ Cale, John. What's Welsh for Zen (2000), (Hardback), Bloomsbury. ISBN 1582340684
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