· Chapman does a superb job of demystifying all the absurd myths and rumors about the "madman" Barrett and offers a very human and poignant portrait of a man with considerable creative juice who lost it to drugs or mental illness or both, or just simply burned out all he had to give very quickly.4/5. · Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman. Blur guitarist Graham Coxon is a devotee, and his reminiscence opens Rob Chapman's scrupulous but Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. · If Chapman overstates the case for Barrett's songwriting genius and sometimes writes from the point of view of an obsessive on a mission to rehabilitate his hero, A Very Irregular Head is a Author: Sean O’Hagan.
Syd Barrett: a Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman: review. Sam Taylor explores the strange, psychedlic life of Pink Floyd legend Syd Barrett, reviewing Rob Chapman's intelligent new biography. In. out of 5 stars A Very Irregular Head: The Life of Syd Barrett. Reviewed in the United States on January 5, Rob Chapman's book is a curious "biography" of Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett. In fact, if it weren't for the first and the last few chapters of the book, I would hesitate to call it a biography at all, but rather more of a. A Very Irregular Head.: Rob Chapman. Hachette Books, - Music - pages. 3 Reviews. "I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway."—Syd Barrett's last interview, Rolling Stone, Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett () was, by all accounts.
Chapman is very good on the array of almost exclusively literary influences that made Barrett such a singular and definably English songwriter A Very Irregular Head is a consistently illuminating, and often surprising, read the best book yet about him. In A Very Irregular Head, journalist Rob Chapman lifts the veil of secrecy that has surrounded the legend of Syd Barrett for nearly four decades, drawing on exclusive access to family, friends, archives, journals, letters, and artwork. Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman. Blur guitarist Graham Coxon is a devotee, and his reminiscence opens Rob Chapman's scrupulous but affectionate biography: "I was seventeen.
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