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Syd Barrett - A Very Irregular Head.

15.1.2010: Rob Chapman's A Very Irregular Head, a new biography of Syd, promises to ring the changes in that it concentrates far more, and in greater detail, on Syd's formative influences than other tomes. The book's 400-plus pages spend a considerable amount of time dissecting the artistic (both literary and visual) inspirations for Syd's creative world.

We hope to be able to bring you an extract of the book in due course, courtesy of publishers Faber and Faber. In the meantime the book, available on 6th May 2010, can be pre-ordered from Amazon and other online retailers as well as Waterstone's and other High Street bookshops.

Rob Chapman is the former singer/lyricist with Bristol based avant-punksters Glaxo Babies, and moved through broadcasting into full-time music journalism in 1995 when he began contributing to Mojo, having written for a few fanzines, most notably early issues of Syd fanzine Terrapin. After eight years of writing for Mojo, including cover stories on Brian Jones, Keith Moon, Massive Attack, and Brian Wilson's Smile album, Rob moved to Uncut in 2003, returning to EMAP publishing house 2006 in time to write Syd's Mojo obituary. His other books are Selling The Sixties, a history of offshore pirate radio, The Vinyl Junkyard, an alternative history of record sleeves, and his debut novel, Dusk Music, published in 2008.