Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd (68 page)

Countless magazine interviews and articles proved invaluable in writing this book, including many published in
Classic Rock
,
Melody Maker
,
Mojo
,
Musician
,
NME
,
Q
,
Record Collector
,
Rolling Stone
,
Sounds
,
Spin
,
Uncut
,
The Word
and more. Those deserving of a special mention are listed in the bibliography.

Finally, lots of love and gratitude to Claire and Matthew for infinite amounts of patience, particularly during the last big push.

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Books

Cavanagh, John,
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
(Continuum, 2003)

Dallas, Karl,
Pink Floyd: Bricks in the Wall
(Shapolsky Publishing, 1987)

Fitch, Vernon,
The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia
(Collector’s Guide Publishing, 1998)

Fitch, Vernon,
Pink Floyd: The Press Reports 1966-1983
(Collector’s Guide Publishing, 2001)

Fitch, Vernon and Richard Mahon,
Comfortably Numb, A History of The Wall, Pink Floyd 1978-1981
(PFA Publishing, 2006)

Harris, John,
The Dark Side of the Moon: The Making of the Pink Floyd Masterpiece
(Fourth Estate, 2005)

Hodges, Nick and Jan Priston,
Embryo: A Pink Floyd Chronology 1966-1971
(Cherry Red Books, 1999)

Mabbett, Andy,
The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd
(Omnibus, 1995)

Manning, Toby,
The Rough Guide to Pink Floyd
(Rough Guides, 2006)

Mason, Nick,
Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004)

McDonald, Bruno (ed.),
Pink Floyd: Through the Eyes of … The Band, Its Fans, Friends And Foes
(Sidgwick & Jackson, 1996)

Miles, Barry,
Pink Floyd, A Visual Documentary
(Omnibus Press, 1980)

Miles, Barry,
Pink Floyd, The Early Years
(Omnibus Press, 2006)

Palacios, Julian,
Lost in the Woods: Syd Barrett and the Pink Floyd
(Boxtree, 1998)

Parker, David,
Random Precision: Recording the Music of Syd Barrett 1965-1974
(Cherry Red Books, 2001)

Povey, Glenn and Ian Russell,
Pink Floyd: In the Flesh, The Complete Performance History
(Bloomsbury, 1997)

Povey, Glenn,
Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd
(Mindhead Publishing, 2006)

Pratt, Guy,
My Bass and Other Animals
(Orion, 2007)

Rock, Mick,
Psychedelic Renegades
(Genesis Publications, 2002)

Sanders Rick,
The Pink Floyd
(Futura Publications, 1976)

Shaffner, Nicholas,
A Saucerful of Secrets: A Pink Floyd Odyssey
(Helter Skelter, 1992)

Thorgerson, Storm and Peter Curzon,
Mind Over Matter: The Images Of Pink Floyd
(Sanctuary, 1997)

Thorgerson, Storm and Peter Curzon,
Taken By Storm: The Album Art of Storm Thorgerson, A Retrospective
(Omnibus, 2007)

Watkinson, Mike and Pete Anderson,
Syd Barrett, Crazy Diamond
(Omnibus Press, 1991)

Willis, Tim,
Madcap: The Half-Life of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd’s Lost Genius
(Short Books, 2002)

Background

Ackroyd, Peter,
London: The Biography
(Chatto & Windus, 2000)

Bennett, Graham,
Soft Machine: Out-Bloody-Rageous
(SAF Publishing, 2005)

Bizot, Jean-François,
200 Trips from the Counterculture: Graphics and Stories from the Underground Press Syndicate
(Thames & Hudson, 2006)

Boyd, Joe,
White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s
(Serpent’s Tail, 2005)

Donnelly, Mark,
Sixties Britain: Culture, Society and Politics
(Longman, 2005)

Farren, Mick,
Give the Anarchist a Cigarette
(Jonathan Cape, 2001)

Gorman, Paul,
The Look: Adventures in Pop and Rock Fashion
(Sanctuary, 2001)

Grahame, Kenneth,
The Wind in the Willows
(Methuen, originally published 1908)

Green, Jonathon,
Days in the Life: Voices from the English Underground 1961-1971
(William Heinemann, 1988)

Huxley, Aldous,
The Doors of Perception
(Vintage, originally published 1954)

Levy, Shaun,
Ready, Steady, Go!: Swinging London and the Invention of Cool
(Fourth Estate, 2003)

MacDonald, Ian,
Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records in the Sixties
(Fourth Estate 1994)

Miles, Barry,
In the Sixties
(Jonathan Cape, 2002)

Miles, Barry,
Hippie
(Sterling, 2005)

Norman, Philip,
The Stones
(Elm Tree/Hamish Hamilton, 1984)

Nuttall, Jeff,
Bomb Culture
(MacGibbon & Kee, 1968)

Paytress, Mark,
Twentieth-Century Boy: The Marc Bolan Story
(Sidgwick & Jackson, 1992)

Phillips, Charlie & Mike,
Notting Hill in the Sixties
(Lawrence & Wishart, 1992)

Pryor, William,
The Survival of the Coolest: An Addiction Memoir
(Clear Books, 2003)

Rawlinson, Andrew,
The Book of Enlightened Masters: Western Teachers in Eastern Traditions
(Open Court Publishing, 1997)

Sandbrook, Christopher,
White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties
(Little, Brown, 2006)

Scurfield, Matthew,
I Could Be Anyone
(to be published in 2008)

Scully, Rock, with David Dalton,
Living with the Dead
(Little, Brown, 1996) Sedgwick, Nick,
Light Blue with Bulges
(Fourth Estate, 1989)

Sounes, Howard,
The Sights, Sounds and Ideas of a Brilliant Decade
(Simon & Schuster, 2006)

Stevens, Jay,
Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream
(Paladin, 1989)

Street-Porter, Janet,
Fall Out: A Memoir of Friends Made and Friends Unmade
(Headline Review, 2007)

Vyner, Harriet,
Groovy Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Fraser
(Faber & Faber, 2001)

Magazine Articles

Black, Johnny, ‘The Long March’ (
Mojo,
November 2001)

Clerk, Carol, ‘Lost in Space’ (
Uncut
, June 2003)

Clerk, Carol, ‘The Last Days of Pink Floyd’ (
Uncut
, June 2004)

Constantin, Philippe, ‘Really Wish You Were Here: The Politics of Absence’ (
Street Life
, January 1976)

Ellen, Mark, ‘The Deal Maker’ (
The Word
, August 2005)

Ewing, Jerry, ‘The Show Must Go On’ (
Classic Rock
, January 2000)

Harris, John, ‘In the Flesh’ (
Q
&
Mojo
Pink Floyd Special Edition, August 2004)

Johns, Matt and Powell, Paul Jr, Adrian Maben interview (
www.brain-damage.co.uk
, 2003)

Kent, Nick, ‘The Cracked Ballad of Syd Barrett’ (
New Musical Express
, April 1974)

McKnight, Connor, ‘Notes Towards the Illumination of the Floyd’ (
Zigzag
, July 1973)

Salewicz, Chris, ‘Over the Wall’ (
Q
, August 1987)

Simmons, Sylvie, ‘Danger! Demolition in Progress’ (
Mojo
, December 1999)

Snow, Mat, ‘The Rightful Heir’ (
Q
, September 1990)

Sutcliffe, Phil, ‘And This Is Me …’ (
Mojo
, April 2006)

Sutcliffe, Phil, ‘The First Men on the Moon’ (
Mojo
, March 1998)

Sutcliffe, Phil, ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ (
Mojo
, July 1995)

Recommended Websites

www.brain-damage.co.uk

www.pinkfloyd.com

www.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk

www.pinkfloydz.com

www.pinkfloyd.net

www.davidgilmour.com

www.outsidethewall.net

www.pink-floyd.org

www.gilmourish.com

www.sydbarrett.org

www.floydianslip.com

www.roger-waters.com

www.rogerwaters.org

For more information about the author go to
www.markrblake.com

INDEX

A la Recherche du Temps Perdu

Abbey Road Studios

Adams, Bryan

Adams, Douglas

Adamson, Chris

Albarn, Damon

albums

Animals

Atom Heart Mother

cover artwork

Dark Side of the Moon

Delicate Sound of Thunder

The Division Bell

Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd

The Final Cut

Household Objects

Meddle

A Momentary Lapse of Reason

More

A Nice Pair

Obscured by Clouds

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Pulse

Relics

A Saucerful of Secrets

Ummagumma

The Wall

Wish You Were Here

Alder, John (Twink)

Aldiss, John

Alice Cooper

Allison, Mose

Altham, Dave

Amen Corner

Amis, Martin

AMM

Anger, Kenneth

Animal Farm
(George Orwell)

Antonioni, Michelangelo

Appice, Carmine

Asher, Jane

Astoria
(houseboat studio)

Atkins, Ron

Atlantic Records

Ayers, Kevin

Bailey, David

Baker, Ken

Ballet de Marseille

The Band

Barclay James Harvest

Bardot, Brigitte

Barlow, Bill

Barnes, Ted

Barraclough, Nick

Barrett, Rosemary

Barrett, Syd

appearance

art school studies

artistic creativity

Barrett
(album)

character

death

dropped from the band

drug use

early musical activity

education

family background

grows apart from the band

The Madcap Laughs

mental deterioration

myths around

and the Pink Floyd name

‘protracted childhood’

recluse

relationships

returns to Cambridge

songwriting

Stars band

Syd’s First Trip
(film)

tribute concert

violence

vocals

Beach Boys

Beat Generation

Beatles

Beck, Jeff

Beckham, David

Bell, Andy

Bennun, David

Berlin
Wall
show

Bernstein, Elmer

Bernstein, Leonard

Berry, Chuck

Birtwell, Celia

Black Sabbath

Blackhill Enterprises

Blair, Tony

Bley, Carla

Blind Faith

Blue Cheer

blues

Blur

Bo Diddley

The Body
(film)

Bolan, Marc

Bond, Graham

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band

The Boston Crabs

Bowie, David

Bown, Andy

Bown, Pete

Boyd, Joe

Boyle, Mark

Bramhall, Doyle

Brans, Vivien

Breen, Paul

Brickman, Marc

Britannia Row studio

Broad, Graham

Brockett, Mick

Bron, Gerry

Brown, Arthur

Brown, Joel and Toni

Brown, Sam

Brown, Vicki

Bruce, Jack

Bunyan, Vashti

Burroughs, William

Bush, Kate

Cage, John

Caine, Michael

Cambridge

Cambridge School of Art

Capitol Records

Captain Beefheart

Carin, Jon

Caron, Gai

Carrack, Paul

Carter, Ian (Pip)

Cartwright, Rufus

Cassavetes, John

Chapman, Ken

Charlesworth, Chris

Charrier, Paul

Cheshire, Leonard

Chic

Child, June

Christie, Carolyne Anne
see
Waters, Carolyne Anne

Christie, Julie

Christie, Willie

Clapton, Eric

Clarke, Arthur C.

Clarke, Nobby

The Clash

Cohl, Michael

Collins, Mel

Collins, Phil

Columbia Records

Cook, Peter

Cook, Richard

Coolidge, Rita

Coon, Caroline

Cooper, Ray

Corner, Lindsay

Cornwell, Hugh

Corpe, Jon

Coxon, Graham

Cream

Croker, Dave

101 Cromwell Road

Crosby, David

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Crowder, Nawasa

Crystal Voyager
(film)

Curry, Tim

Cutler, Sam Jonas

Dallas, Karl

Daltrey, Roger

The Damned

Danko, Rick

Davies, John

Davis, Clive

Deep Purple

Dennis, Chris

Dexter, Jeff

DiStanislao, Steve

Dodson, Harry