Talk:Gabrielle Drake

The purple wigs at the Moon Base complex

The reason for the purple wigs at the Moon Base complex was explained in the book. They were anti-static wigs. Jim Gilmer —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.11.143.169 (talk • contribs) 15:43, 9 August 2006

The name dropping of Nick Drake

Very clever way of mentioning the relation to Nick Drake, very clever indeed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.166.213.179 (talk • contribs) 23:51, 4 October 2006

Might be more useful if article mentioned she accomponied Nick on a few recordings.--68.56.17.70 (talk) 07:07, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Crash! (1971), Drake and Gary Numan's video "Cars"

My understanding of what happened is as follows: In 1971 J G Ballard made a short film Crash! featuring Drake. (Which should probably be added to the article if a reliable source can be found.) Two years later he wrote the novel Crash, expanding on the theme, which was subsequently made into Crash (1996 film). The lyrics to Gary Numan's Cars (song) were arguably influenced by Ballard's novel, but Drake does not appear in, and had nothing to do with, Numan's 1979 music video.

In 2009, Ballard appeared on the BBC documentary series Synth Britannia and played Numan's song. He interspersed clips of Drake from his film Crash! with Numan's 1979 video in what was then described in a review by The Scotsman here as "Gabrielle Drake brought serious glamour to urban alienation in the video for Numan's Cars", which is being misinterpreted as Drake appearing in the original 1979 music video. TwoTwoHello (talk) 01:10, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

As far as I know, that's pretty much the case, except the original source was his novel and art show The Atrocity Exhibition. While the expansion of this article is commendable, it's turned into an almost unreadable list of parts played rather than a biography. Perhaps some of it could be hived off as a filmography article, or moved to a separate section. Paul B (talk) 13:40, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

I've added a section, talking the liberty of copying some of TwoTwoHello's phrasing. Paul B (talk) 14:48, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

How can she have been born in 1944, if she was evacuated from Burma in 1942?

This article gives Gabrielle Drake's year of birth as 1944, and yet the article also says that she and her family were evacuated from Burma in 1942, AND that she performed in shows on the boat trip back to the UK.

This is obviously impossible, and means that either she has been misquoted, or that she was not born in 1944. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wethewax (talk • contribs) 15:04, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

Good catch. 1942 was when her parents fled to India - the Guardian source is not a model of clarity. They moved back to England when Drake was eight according to the Telegraph. I'll update the article shortly unless someone else (maybe you!) gets there first. TwoTwoHello (talk) 15:41, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

I have copy and pasted the following from IMDB, I shall leave it here for your perusal/use: <possible copyright violation removed> — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wethewax (talk • contribs) 16:24, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

IMDb is not considered a reliable source as it is user edited. Sourcing requirements are particularly strict for biographies of living persons, like this article, and are described here. I have removed the copy/paste from IMDb as it is not helpful and may be a copyright violation. TwoTwoHello (talk) 12:09, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Pronunciation

An edition of Call My Bluff, linked here, shows the other participants pronouncing Drake's first name in an unconventional way – until they revert to the usual way at 9:25. Does anyone know of any preference she has expresed on the subject? Harfarhs (talk) 05:02, 7 October 2024 (UTC)