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"I don't believe I'm easy to share with you. I've got an extremely irregular mind. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway" (Syd Barrett, Rolling Natural stone, 1971). Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett was the definition of a fantastic boy. With good looks and an aptitude for music, he was a charismatic child who fast became a teenage head in 1960s Great britain. Along with three university chums - Roger Waters, Richard Wright, and Nick Mason - he produced what would become Green Floyd. Starting as a British cover group, they soon pioneered a new sound: British psychedelic rock. With early, trippy, Barrett-penned visits, Green Floyd captured the zeitgeist of swinging London in all its technicolor glory. But there is a dark aspect. Barrett fell in with some hardcore hippies and commenced taking large levels of LSD. His already-fragile state of mind - most consider him to obtain been schizophrenic - further unraveled. The once bright-eyed lad was quickly replaced with a sinister, dead-eyed darkness of his past self directed at eccentric, reclusive, and sometimes violent action. Sacked from the group, Barrett retreated to his mother's house, where he remained until his fatality, rarely seen or heard. A Very Unusual Head lifts the veil of secrecy that has ornamented Syd Barrett for nearly four decades, attracting on exclusive access to family, friends, archives, journals, words, and artwork to set-up the definitive family portrait of an excellent, tragic designer. Besides taking the assurance of Barrett's youth, Chapman challenges the notion that Barrett was a hopelessly lost recluse in his later years and creates a family portrait of a genuine British eccentric who's rightfully placed within the abundant literary lineage which exercises through Kenneth Graham, Hilaire Belloc, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, John Lennon, David Bowie, and on up to Damon Albarn of Blur. A tragic, affectionate, and engaging portrait of one designer, this will stand as the authoritative term on this very British genius for a long time to come.
