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Download * A Very Irregular Head: The Life of Syd Barrett PDF by ^ Rob Chapman eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. A Very Irregular Head: The Life of Syd Barrett An Excellent Read Amazon Customer The kind of book you'd like to keep on reading - it ended too soon! The author has a very good style; easy to follow with lots of statements from other people who knew Roger Keith Barrett (rip). The author presents RKB in mostly a favorable way. The book is a great biography of the young man, the artist and painter, the wordsmith, the poet, the songwriter, the creative genius, his life, and Pink Floyd - the group. Highly. THE BEST IN DEPTH VIEW YET INTO A TROUBL
| Title | : | A Very Irregular Head: The Life of Syd Barrett |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.59 (564 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0306821435 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 472 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-11 |
| Language | : | English |
A diamond indeed.'' --David Bowie (on Syd Barrett) . ''The few times I saw Syd Barrett perform in London at UFO and the Marquee clubs during the '60s will forever be etched in my mind. Also, along with Anthony Newley, he was the first guy I'd heard to sing pop or rock with a British accent. A major regret is that I never got to know him. His impact on my thinking was enormous. He was so charismatic and such a startlingly original songwriter
Rob Chapman has written for Mojo,The Times, Guardian, Independent on Sunday, Uncut, Word, and the dance music fanzine Jockey Slut. He is the author of two books of nonfiction and a novel. He has compiled and written liner notes for CD reissues by artists as varied as the Last Poets and John Faley, as well as numerous psychedelia and loungecore compilations.
The once bright-eyed lad was quickly replaced, seemingly overnight, by a glowering, sinister, dead-eyed shadow of his former self, given to erratic, highly eccentric, reclusive, and sometimes violent behavior. “I don't think I'm easy to talk about. Along with three friends and collaborators—Roger Waters, Richard Wright, and Nick Mason—he formed what would soon become Pink Floyd, and rock ’n’ roll was never the same. Inevitably sacked from the band, Barrett retreated from London to his mother’s house in Cambridge, where he would remain until his death, only rarely seen or heard
An Excellent Read Amazon Customer The kind of book you'd like to keep on reading - it ended too soon! The author has a very good style; easy to follow with lots of statements from other people who knew Roger Keith Barrett (rip). The author presents RKB in mostly a favorable way. The book is a great biography of the young man, the artist and painter, the wordsmith, the poet, the songwriter, the creative genius, his life, and Pink Floyd - the group. Highly. THE BEST IN DEPTH VIEW YET INTO A TROUBLED MIND, BUT STILL NOT DEFINITIVE Stuart Jefferson 2 page Forward, 4 page Acknowledgements, 5 page Introduction, 409 pages of text, 3 page Bibliography, and an Index. There are 16 pages (in 2 sections) of color and b&w photographs of Barrett, his family, PINK FLOYD, plus reproductions of a few of Barrett's artwork. This is actually a 3 1/2 star review, simply because of no in depth, definitive information on Barrett's mental condition."I don't think I'm easy to talk abou. THE Syd Barrett biography Robert Keith This is one of the finest biographies (I read the audiobook) about an artist that I have ever read, on par with David Sheppard's Brian Eno bio "On Some Faraway Beach" (no audiobook, sadly), Joyce Johnson's Jack Kerouac bio "The Voice Is All" (excellent audiobook) and Kay Larson's John Cage bio "Where the Heart Beats" (another great audiobook).A Very Irregular Head is lovingly, and exhaustively, researched. Chapman made a
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