ALL THE MADMEN - BARRETT, Bowie, Drake, Pink Floyd, The Kinks, The Who & A Journey To The Dark Side of English Rock.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE-/FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,white background with a pale blue panel with b/w subjects' head portrait illustrations and b/w lettering to front panel of dw/dj.blue,red+black lettering to spine with a pair of subjects' head portraits illustrations,rear panel with colour Pink Floyd prism illustration and b/w critics' quotes; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Both the head and foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj and book too,minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing - the only real,main detraction preventing item being graded FINE/FINE.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,publisher's sharp-cornered,original plain white cloth boards with pale blue ink blocked letters to spine and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,1-404pp [paginated] includes a preface,7 chapters covering 1965-8,1969 and individual year pairs 1971-2 up to 1974-5 respectively,and an afterword, notes,an appendix,a bibliography & selected Discography,acknowledgements and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a contents list/table and at the rear,6pp blanks.
By the end of 1968,The Beatles were far too busy squabbling with each other to work together, while The Stones were off the road and in trouble; British rock was in crisis.
'ALL THE MADMEN' tells the story of what happened afterwards,and how six stars travelled to the edge of sanity in the years following the summer of love: Pete Townsend,Ray Davies,Peter Green,Syd Barrett,Nick Drake and David Bowie - and how some of them did not make it back from the brink.
The book charts how these performers made some of the most seminal rock music ever recorded: Pink Moon; Ziggy Stardust; Quadrophenia; Dark Side of the Moon; The Muswell Hillbillies,to name but five.Together these albums offer an extraordinary portrait of their creators as well as a dangerously forthright insight into the times.
Leading rock historian,Clinton Heylin reveals the story behind these iconic albums and their creators to give a riveting,panoramic account of a major turning-point in British rock.
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