A very irregular head [electronic resource] : the life of Syd Barrett / Rob Chapman.

A very irregular head [electronic resource] : the life of Syd Barrett / Rob Chapman.

First edition.

9780306819360 (electronic book)
9780306819148

Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Press, 2010.

English

1 online resource (xix, 441 pages) : illustrations

ML421.B4 C43 2010eb

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....

Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-415) and index.

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