Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head

Printed wrappers. Some shallow creasing to spine: binding still tight and square. Slight crease to bottom corner of upper wrapper. INSCRIBED and dated by the author to title page: ‘For Hoppy [?], more or less of then than now. Ron Chapman June 2010’. With 16 pages of illustrations. Foreword by Graham Coxon. *** A combination of psychedelic drugs and mental illness ended Syd Barrett’s career shortly after he was ousted from Pink Floyd of which he was a founding member. When he died in 2006 he hadn’t released any music for almost 35 years. Still his legacy and influence is enormous as this excellent biography by writer and musician Rob Chapman shows.