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With early, trippy, Barrett-penned pop hits such as “Arnold Layne” (about a clothesline-thieving cross-dresser) and “See Emily Play” (written specifically for the epochal “Games For May” concert), Pink Floyd, with Syd Barrett as their main creative visionary, captured the zeitgeist of “Swinging” London in all its Technicolor glory.
But there was a dark side to all this new-found freedom.
(2011, 200 pp.), 4 transl. I've got a very irregular head. by Omnibus Press.
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Terrapin (2006) Rick Salsman
272 Collection of the fanzines Terrapin, with introductions, ebook ed. Despite the fact that even at its most popular, the band was always pretty un-radio-friendly and wallowed in several years of confusion about what to sound like after Syd's exit because they had lost their songwriter (and their first managers, who followed Syd in the wake of the divorce in the mistaken belief that once he'd recovered he would make them way more money than the Floyd ever would).
Published by Plexus Publishing.
He was spontaneous in his creativity and not particularly disciplined in his approach to creating music--painting was his first love.
As to quote a later Pink Floyd song--which I am sure this author hates because Syd didn't write it--this book is nearly a laugh, but it's really a cry.
“I don't think I'm easy to talk about.
The author of this book is a big Syd fan but to the point he is incapable of being evenhanded in writing about his subject. 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.
ISBN 978-90-831514-9-6
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The Lyrics of Syd Barrett (Hardcover – 18 Feb. 2021) by Syd Barrett (Author), Rob Chapman (Author).
The complete lyrics of Syd Barrett – 52 songs written for Pink Floyd and during his subsequent solo career – are presented together for the first time, along with rare photos and artwork, to form this beautifully illustrated book.
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The Ballad of Syd & Morgan by Haydn Middleton (2018, Propolis)
This book recounts a fictional tale of a meeting between Syd Barrett and the Edwardian novelist, E M Forster in Cambridge. It creates the story of a fleeting friendship between two creative souls.
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The Music Scene of 1960s Cambridge Warren Dosanjh and Mick Brown (2013)
This book includes information on places and bands related to Syd Barrett, revision of a 2009 ed (16 pp 5 ebook ed), self-pub.
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Barrett Russell Beecher and Will Shutes (2011, Essential Books, 2 vols)
Photo book, with monograph on the artwork, comments.
by Central Studios.
Syd Barrett, Le Genie Perdu De Pink Floyd (2005) Tim Willis
A 2005 French translation of Willis’s 2002 book. (2011, 128 pp.), pub.
It's one of his lesser crimes against good nonfiction writing, but the author also loves to incorporate long, tedious diversions into the text.
He also has the bizarre tendency to just unequivocally assert that something is amazing or awful with no real explanation of why, and I usually ended up having the opposite opinion. by Arcana Editrice
The Mick Rock Photo-Sessions Mick Rock (1993, UFO Books)
Photobook for the box set Syd Barrett: The Madcap Laughs, text by Pete Anderson.
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Crazy Diamond: Syd Barrett & the Dawn of Pink Floyd Mike Watkinson and Pete Anderson (1991, Omnibus Press).
The first major biography of Syd Barrett originally published in 1991, and revised in 2006 with detail on the story behind his later years, his illness, and death, with information provided by Syd’s family.
in 1999 (448 pp.), 2005, 1 transl. Some of these diversions are not uninteresting or unmerited trains of thought, but this guy just doesn't know when to stop.
Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head
Blessed with good looks and a natural aptitude for painting and music, he was a charismatic, elfin child beloved by all, who fast became a teenage leader in Cambridge, England, where a burgeoning bohemian scene was flourishing in the early 1960s. in 2007 (142 pp.), 1 transl.