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"Needle of Death" is song written and recorded by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch that appears on his 1965 eponymous debut album. According to the Needle of Death Songfacts, the song has been claimed to have influenced the drug-taking habits of a generation of British youth even though Jansch never touched illicet drugs himself. He told the story behind the song to Uncut magazine January 2010: "It's inspired by a friend called Buck Polly, a folk singer and one of the people I met when I first came to London.