A very irregular head [electronic resource] : the life of Syd Barrett / Rob Chapman.
2010
ML421.B4 C43 2010eb
Linked e-resources
Linked Resource
Online Access
Details
Title
A very irregular head [electronic resource] : the life of Syd Barrett / Rob Chapman.
Author
Chapman, Rob.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780306819360 (electronic book)
9780306819148
9780306819148
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xix, 441 p.) : ill.
Call Number
ML421.B4 C43 2010eb
Summary
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.
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....
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....
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-415) and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
Available in Other Form
Very irregular head.
Linked Resources
Online Access
Record Appears in
Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
All Resources
Table of Contents
Oh, mother, tell me more
Watching buttercups cup the light
Flicker flicker flicker blam pow!
Distorted view
see through baby blue
His head did no thinking : his arms didn't move
We'll stray our pieces
We awful awful crawl
Proverbs and sobs
Make your name like a ghost
Long gone.
Watching buttercups cup the light
Flicker flicker flicker blam pow!
Distorted view
see through baby blue
His head did no thinking : his arms didn't move
We'll stray our pieces
We awful awful crawl
Proverbs and sobs
Make your name like a ghost
Long gone.