Before his unfortunate and unexpected death, Heath Ledger created a film honoring the legacy of musician Nick Drake. Ledger directed a video for Drake’s song “Black Eyed Dog,” one the final pieces written by the young singer/songwriter before his own untimely death.

The video was shown as part of a story detailing the eerily similar tragedies of the two men on A Current Affair.

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Ledger was a self-proclaimed huge fan of Drake…

“I was obsessed with his story and his music and I pursued it for a while and still have hopes to kind of tell his story one day,” a soft-spoken and fidgety Ledger told the assembled media, though he also said that any such aspirations had “faded away.”

[MTV.com]

A few people have take Drake’s song and turned it around as a tribute video for Ledger as well…

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