Syd Barrett and British Psychedelia is an intimate snapshot of the years 1966-7, when the underground's house band, Pink Floyd, were cast blinking into the light of mainstream success. Nurtured in the progressive Cambridge scene and the bohemian hangouts of the Notting Hill Free School and UFO club, Pink Floyd pioneered a distinctly British mix of Victoriana, LSD-inflected mysticism, the avant-garde and pop. And at their heart was the gifted and complex songwriter, singer and guitarist Syd Barrett, who personified the psychedelic revolution in both its exoticism and its tragic impermanence.
- ISBN10 0571296769
- ISBN13 9780571296767
- Publish Date 7 June 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Edition Main - Faber Forty-Fives
- Format eBook
- Pages 96
- Language English