Sort of off topic but timing can be crucial in the appreciation of an artist. When I was 19, one of my housemates tried to turn me onto Nick Drake and I just wasn't into his music. But if it had been 2 and 1/2 - 3 years earlier, I might've gotten into his stuff because I was opening up my musical head and in that period was discovering the Stones, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, 50s rock'n'roll, Melanie, Supertramp, Hendrix and Creedence Clearwater Revival as well as other singles oriented 60s acts like the Fortunes, Tommy Roe, Jimmy Ruffin and others.
But by that point in '82 when Andy was trying to convert me to Nick I was firmly ensconced in heavy rock. But towards the end of that year, I began to open up to jazz and jazz rock fusion and over the next two years took in a lot of that and Indian music too and I may well have been up for some Nick. But Andy had moved !
At each important musical juncture of my life when I was ripe for new things, Nick Drake was never there and now I'm no longer interested in anything new or artists I've not previously heard. Lousy timing, eh ?
Oh well.