Una giovanissima Gabrielle (1974)

buon compleanno Gabrielle

Oggi compleanno della nostra amata Gabrielle.

La ricordiamo con un video trovato su Youtube:

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Gabrielle Drake as Lt Ellis Tribute

Gabrielle Drake recita poema del fratello Nick

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A poem by Nick Drake's mother, recited by his sister, Gabrielle to describe Nick Drake, to better understand him. Very sad and dismal. [Suicide is not an option.] Buy the DVD, A Skin Too Few....

The Shell (A Skin Too Few)

Living grows round us like a skin
to shut away the outer desolation
For if we clearly mark the furthest deep
we should be dead long years before the grave.
But turning around within the homely shell
of worry discontent and narrow joy
we grow and flourish and rarely see the
outside dark that would confound our eyes
some break the shell...
I think that there are those who push their
fingers through the brittle walls and
make a hole...and through this cruel
slit stare out across the cinders of the
world with naked eyes they look both out and end,
knowing themselves and too much else beside.

Gabrielle canta col fratello Nick

In questa rara registrazione Gabrielle canta col fratello Nick:

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questo secondo video è molto bello, anche per le foto inedite di Gabrielle...

Gabrielle cantante

In questo particolare video clip la voce di Gabrielle cantante:

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Here is "Female of the Species" from the ill-fated Andrew Lloyd Webber & Alan Ackbourn musical Jeeves. The show opened on the 22nd April 1975 and closed on the 24th May 1975 after only 38 performances. This track is taken from my copy of the original London cast LP.

The vocalist is Gabrielle Drake who played Lt Gay Ellis in Gerry Anderson's 1970's si-fi series UFO


Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics by Alan Ayckbourn


By some quirk of our genetics
Girls mature more quickly
Which spelt out in plain phonetics
Means that she must wait
'Til the boy she fancies
Starts to see her as a woman

When a girl finds a lover
If you should cross her then you'll soon discover
She can be far deadlier than the male
Don't misread her external
Don't ever tangle with the great maternal
She can be far deadlier than the male

Oh, she's a tender thing
A slight and slender thing
A bowl of peaches and cream
But lurking deep inside
She'll threaten homicide
Defending her dream

Six foot men often wonder
How on this earth they finished six feet under
Thanks to one far deadlier than the male
Though her smile may excite you
Her tongue can tear you and her teeth can bite you
They can be far deadlier than the male's

Avoid provoking her
Far safer stroking her
That's what she really prefers
For just remember that
Like any alley cat
She'll kill for what's hers

Bring her gifts to surprise her
But God help you if you patronise her
She'll become far deadlier than the male
Any man who betrays her
He's safer playing with an open razor
Than with one far deadlier than the male
She can be far deadlier than the male

carrellata di attrici in film fantascienza

Una curiosa carrellata di attrici che hanno interpretato ruoli in film o serie televisive di fantascienza (o fantasy).
Come si vedrà Gabrielle è certamente una delle più affascinanti... (o la più affascinante in assoluto?!)

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fantasie musicali

Due clip con due curiose rivisitazioni della melodia-tema musicale ufficiale offerte da un musicista fan di UFO:

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buon compleanno - happy birthday

buon compleanno Gabrielle - happy birthday Ellis

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una versione inedita e futuribile...?
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Gabrielle Drake - intervistata sul fratello Nick

dal minuto 06:19 Gabrielle è intervistata sul fratello Nick, musicista e poeta inglese di grande fama:

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Nick Drake, fratello di Gabrielle

Un documentario sulla vita di Nick Drake, cantautore inglese, fratello di Gabrielle:
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