![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thanks to the mood-driven TV ad, Drake posthumously stepped into the spotlight-the album of the same title sold a staggering 74,000 copies the following year. ![]() Then, almost 25 years later, on November 11, 1999, Volkswagen launched an advertising campaign for its Cabrio convertible that paired Drake’s song “Pink Moon” with footage of four friends driving on a moonlit country road. His seniors and peers in Britain’s political and purist folk revival scene shunned Drake for his privileged middle class upbringing and Cambridge education and his impact in the United States was negligible. The three albums released during his short career- Five Leaves Left (1969), Bryter Layter (1970), and Pink Moon (1972)-each had sales in the low thousands. Drake’s death at 26 came while he languished in obscurity.
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