TY - GEN AB - Profiles the life of the mysterious founder of Pink Floyd, whose obsession with ingesting of LSD ended his career and pulled him down into madness. AB - Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (1946-2006) was the very definition of a golden boy. Along with three school chums he formed what would soon become Pink Floyd, and rock and roll was never the same.But there was a dark side. Barrett, who fell in with a hardcore group of communal-living, squatter hippies, soon began ingesting vast quantities of a new drug--LSD--and his already-tenuous mental state began to unravel. Syd Barrett became perhaps rock and roll's first "acid casualty."In A Very Irregular Head, journalist Rob Chapman lifts the veil of secrecy that has surrounded the legend of Syd Barrett.... AU - Chapman, Rob. CN - ProQuest Ebook Central CN - ML421.B4 CY - Cambridge, Mass. : DA - 2010. ET - 1st ed. ID - 437432 KW - Rock musicians KW - Rock music fans KW - Lyricists LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=625078 N2 - Profiles the life of the mysterious founder of Pink Floyd, whose obsession with ingesting of LSD ended his career and pulled him down into madness. N2 - Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (1946-2006) was the very definition of a golden boy. Along with three school chums he formed what would soon become Pink Floyd, and rock and roll was never the same.But there was a dark side. Barrett, who fell in with a hardcore group of communal-living, squatter hippies, soon began ingesting vast quantities of a new drug--LSD--and his already-tenuous mental state began to unravel. Syd Barrett became perhaps rock and roll's first "acid casualty."In A Very Irregular Head, journalist Rob Chapman lifts the veil of secrecy that has surrounded the legend of Syd Barrett.... PB - Da Capo Press, PP - Cambridge, Mass. : PY - 2010. SN - 9780306819360 T1 - A very irregular headthe life of Syd Barrett / TI - A very irregular headthe life of Syd Barrett / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=625078 ER -