Index

Albers, Josef

alcohol

Alder, Twink

Aldermaston see CND

Aldington, Richard

Alice Through the Looking Glass (Carroll)

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)

Allen, Daevid

Allen, Dr

Allison, Mose

Alloway, Lawrence

Amen Corner

AMM: AMMMusic; and analytical cubism; and counter-culture; and ‘Flaming’; Frith on; intellectual quest; Sheaff ’s departure; Syd’s guitar technique

Anderson, Lindsay

Anderson, Pete

Anderson, Pink

Andrews, Bernie

Andrews, George

Anger, Kenneth

Animals, the

Antonioni, Michelangelo

Anzaldúa, Gloria E.

Artaud, Antonin

Ashford, Revd Charles

Assayas, Michka

Atkins, Ron

Auden, W. H.

Austen, Jane

Ayers, Kevin

Bach, J. S.

Bacharach, Burt

Ball, Hugo

Balthus

Barnes, Cora

Barraclough, Alison

Barraclough, Nick

Barrett, Alan John (brother)

Barrett, Dr Arthur Max (father): Addenbrooke’s Hospital; as amateur botanist; character; death; and ‘Long Gone’;

Barrett, Dr Arthur Max (father) contd: as musician; and Syd; University of Cambridge

Barrett, Arthur Samuel (grandfather)

Barrett, Donald Max (brother)

Barrett, Ian (nephew)

Barrett, Ray

Barrett, Roger Keith ‘Syd’:

appearance: as a child; in Pink Floyd; post Pink Floyd; as a teenager

character: avoidance; becoming ‘Syd’; boredom; charm; as a child; contrariness; early riser; and fame; femininity; generosity; as gothic; and group dynamics; and his father; impulsiveness; inapproachability; independence; issues with ‘doing’; lacks savvy; love of nature; malleability; middle-class parodies; modesty; politeness; precision in talking; reclusive; sadness; satirist; self-negation; sense of humour; sensitivity; shyness; stylistic snob; as transcendental; untrusting; whimsy

childhood and school: athletics; Cambridgeshire High School for Boys (‘the County’); caning; circle of friends; death of father; diaries; drama summer school; dramatic society; glandular fever; haunts in Cambridge; infancy; maternal household; Morley Memorial Junior School; musical household; O level results; relationship with family; Scouts; truancy

drugs: atCromwell Rd; acid casualty; alcohol; catholic taste in; first LSD trips; gives up LSD; LSD and inner Cantabrigian; LSD as sacrament and diversion; LSD trip with Mick Rock; Mandrax; spiking myth; ‘Sunday Joint’; Syd on LSD

guitar-playing: anti-technique; Ayers session; Binson Echorec; busker strum; detuning; difficult beginnings; distortion; feedback; first chords; first guitar; focus on texture; with Geoff Mott and the Mottoes; glissando; influences; practises with Gilmour; reflective guitar; returns to blues; and Rowe’s deconstructionism; secondary to painting; with Sigma (band); slide; solo on ‘Stethoscope’; Songbook (Seeger); stance; Syd on Hendrix; table-top; tedious improvisation; with Those Without; unplugging; wah-wah

homes and lodgings:Earlham St (London);St Margaret’s Square (Cherry Hinton); Tottenham St (London);Glisson Road (Cambridge);Cromwell Rd (London);Hills Rd (Cambridge); Chelsea Cloisters (London); Egerton Court (London); Hilton Hotel (London); Penta Hotel (London); Richmond flat; Stanhope Gardens (London); Wetherby Mansions (London)

interviews: Actuel (Assayas & Johnson); Beat Instrumental (Turner); ‘Blind Date’ (Melody Maker); Canadian Broadcasting Company; Disc and Music Echo; Go (Smith); ‘Lifelines’ (NME); The Look of the Week (Keller); Melody Maker (Jones); Melody Maker (Walsh); Melody Maker (Watts); Melody Maker (Welch); Rolling Stone (Rock); Sounds (Dadomo)

mental health: abortive Laing therapy; Barrett; delusional periods; description of ‘Roland’; exaggeration of decline; eyes and stare; and fame; friends’ denial; Fulbourne Hospital; Greenwoods mission; guitar compulsion; ‘Jugband Blues’; lost weekend; The Madcap Laughs; medication; mother’s death; need for companionship; and non-judgemental ethos;

Barrett, Roger Keith ‘Syd’, mental health contd: non sequiturs; paranoia; psychiatry books; self-diagnosis; solitary despair; start of decline; synaesthesia; undiagnosed; US tour as tipping point; ‘a very irregular head’; violence

mysticism: astrology; and Ella O’Connor;Ching; and LSD; as non-missionary; in ‘Octopus’; rejection by Sant Mat; rural; tarot

myths: airplane taxi; contrast with Syd’s mundanity and ‘Cracked Ballad’; and Days in the Life; Formentera thunderstorm; and Groupie; ‘Have You Got It Yet?’; Lindsay locked in room; LSD at the Gales; Mandrax and Brylcreem; the Moles; Olympia gig; and Pink Floyd’s success; Syd locked in cupboard; Syd spiked with LSD; Syd’s First Trip; Syd’s violence; US TV shows; walk to Cambridge; Wish You Were Here; Yogi Bear bow-tie

painting and drawing: art books; art folder; burning; Camberwell Art College; Cambridge Technical College; as a child; consequences of abandoning; cut-up and collage; drip painting; exhibition in Milton; Fart Enjoy; feel for colour; and hard work; Homerton art classes; incomplete development; influences; interest in De Kooning; interest in Latham; landscapes; Melody Maker interview; nonsense drawings; photographing; posthumous sale; reconnection with; sabbatical; as sense and sanctuary; as a teenager; visits art galleries; Wetherby Mansions floorboards

Pink Floyd: COI film; creative zenith; departs; erratic behaviour; exhaustion; leaves BBC session; momentum shifts from; as most sympathetic member; naming of; rejection of his ideas; Rotterdam gig; see also Pink Floyd (with Syd)

post-Barrett life: Abbey Road session; atlases; attends Maharaj talk; avoiding mediocrity; burns diaries; coping with people; death; DIY; engagement party ; gardening; hates name ‘Syd’; house clearance; interacts with children; intrusion and harassment; last press contact; lost era; mental collapse; O’Connell’s wedding; pancreatic cancer; parallel with Clare; protective neighbours; return to Cambridge; revered by punks; reverts to ‘Roger’; sculpture; shopping in Cambridge; signs Psychedelic Renegades; Stars; stomach ulcer; type B diabetes; unfulfilled potential; un-newsworthy status; watches ‘Crazy Diamond’

singing: ‘It Is Obvious’; miming; pastiche of Jagger; progress in; stoned; strangulated; unconvincing

solo career: Abbey Road sessions; abortive band with Ayers; Jones as engineer; management; Olympia gig; Sounds of the Seventies; stops recording; Syd on; ‘third album’; Top Gear

solo songs and LPs: ‘Baby Lemonade’; Barrett; ‘Birdie Hop’; ‘Bob Dylan Blues’; ‘Butterfly’; Crazy Diamond; ‘Dark Globe’ (aka ‘Wouldn’t You Miss Me’); ‘Dolly Rocker’; ‘Dominoes’; ‘Effervescing Elephant’; ‘Feel’; ‘Gigolo Aunt’; ‘Golden Hair’; ‘HereGo’; ‘I Never Lied to You’; ‘If It’s in You’; ‘It Is Obvious’; ‘It’s No Good Trying’; ‘Lanky’ Parts One and Two; ‘Late Night’; ‘Let’s Split’; ‘Living Alone’; ‘Long Gone’; ‘Love Song’; ‘Love You’; The Madcap Laughs ; ‘Maisie’; ‘Milky Way’; ‘No Man’s Land’; ‘Octopus’ (aka ‘Clowns and Jugglers’);

Barrett, Roger Keith ‘Syd’, solo

songs and LPs contd: ‘Opel’; Opel; ‘Rats’; ‘Remember Me’; ‘Rhamadan’; ‘She Took a Long Cold Look at Me’; ‘Swan Lee’ (aka ‘Silas Lang’); Syd Barrett; ‘Terrapin’; ‘Two of a Kind’; ‘Waving My Arms in the Air’; ‘Wined and Dined’; ‘Wolfpack’; ‘Word Song’; Wouldn’t You Miss Me?

songwriting: automatic writing; Barrett; Barrett outtakes; comic books; cut-ups; darkness of; destabilisation of self; disengaged perspective; English hymns; Englishness; fairy tales; first songs; flora and fauna; found poetry; found world; fragmentation; gift for; imagist school; lack of confidence in; last session; late developer; limiting his palette; The Madcap Laughs; melodist; as modernist; muse running dry; non-hierarchical; non-original composition; nonsense verses; nostalgia; nursery rhymes; pastiches; Piper at the Gates of Dawn; politeness; primacy of rhythm; as revolutionary; sadness; satire; speed of; and Spike Hawkins; stasis and momentum; strong opening lines; trademark elements; unlikely influences; vulnerability; whimsy; wordplay

women: confidence with; and his femininity; groupies; and jealousy; and loyalty; and marriage; sexual frustration; snobbism towards; teenage drawing; and violence; see also Corner, Lindsay; Gausden, Libby; Iggy: Pinyon, Gayla; Spires, Jenny; Staples, Gilly; Young, Emily

Barrett, Rosemary (sister) see Breen, Rosemary

Barrett, Ruth (sister)

Barrett, Sid ‘the beat’

Barrett, Syd see Barrett, Roger Keith ‘Syd’

Barrett, Winifred Flack ‘Win’ (mother): community work; death; lodgers; moves to Rosemary’s; shopping with B Syd; on Syd as infant; Syd’s B returnB

Bartok, BelaB

Baudelaire, CharlesB

Baxter, Ed

Baxter, Les

Beach Boys, the

beat generation

Beatles, the: ‘All You Need Is Love’; appearance; Beatles B Anthology; ‘Being for the B Benefit of Mister Kite!’; best B drummer in; ‘A Day in the B Life’; drugs exposé; ‘I Am B the Walrus’; and LSD, B; mediocrity; Moles B myth; ‘Penny B Lane’/‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ B; play fame B game; as pop group; B Revolver; Sgt Pepper’s B Lonely Hearts Club Band, B; stop touring; Syd B absorbs; Syd misses B Cambridge gig; Syd on; Syd’s preference for; on TV; Vorman non-story; ‘What’s the New Mary Jane’

BBC: ‘Crazy Diamond’; Juke B Box Jury; The Look of B the Week; Perfumed Garden; pop programming B; ‘Rose Machine Buddha’; B Saturday Club; Sounds of the Seventies; Tomorrow’s World; Top Gear; Top of the Pops

Beck, Jeff

Beckett, Alan

Beckett, Samuel

Bell, Vanessa

Belloc, Hilaire: childhood; and ‘Effervescing Elephant’; influences Syd; and The Madcap Laughs; and ‘Matilda Mother’; pastiches; and poem to Libby; Syd’s pastiches; young Syd reads

Benson, George

Benzedrine

Berg, Adrian

Bergson, Henri

Berio, Luciano

Berke, Joseph

Berry, Chuck

Blackhill Enterprises

Blake, William

Blakely, Alan

Blues Magoos, the

Blunden, Edmund

Blunt, Wilfrid

Blur

Bo Diddley: Pink Floyd covers; riffs; shuffle beat; Sigmacovers; Syd absorbs; Syd ‘jettisons’; Those Without covers

Bolan, Marc

Bond, Graham

A Book of Nonsense (Lear)

Booker T and the MGs

Boone, Pat

Bowie, David

Box Tops, the

Boyd, Joe: background; and EMI deal; Free School; on ‘HereGo’; as Pink Floyd producer; searches for club; on Syd’s mental state

Boyle, Mark

Bracelin, Jack

Brain Police,

Branson, Richard

Breen, Paul

Breen, Rosemary née Barrett (sister): career; cares for Syd; childhood reminiscences; and ‘Crazy Diamond’; harassment; and Rock’s photos; on Syd’s death; on Syd’s hatred of ‘Syd’; on Syd’s health; on Syd’s humour; on Syd’s painting; on Syd’s return; on Syd’s ‘visitors’; urges Libby to visit

Breton, André

Bridge, Frank

Bridget (Paul Charrier’s girlfriend)

Britpop

Brooker, Gary

Brown, Hugh

Brown, James

Brown, Joe

Brown, Joel

Brown, Pete: distrusts Leary; on ‘The Dong’; on English subjects; on Syd as mad artist; on Syd as performer; on Syd’s sycophants; on UFO light show; Wholly Communion Poetry Reading

Brown, Tony

Bruce, Jack

Burdon, Eric

Burgess, Anthony

Burke, Joe

Burns, Eddie Guitar

Burroughs, William

Byrds, the

Byrne, Johnny

Cage, John

Camberwell Art College

Cambridge:St Margaret’s Square;Glisson Road; Hills Rd;Hills Rd; Addenbrooke’s Hospital; Botanical Gardens; Cambridge Technical College; Cambridgeshire High School for Boys (‘the County’); Chalk Pits; Corn Exchange; counter-culture in; crematorium; crowd, closeness of; eccentricity in; Fulbourne Hospital; Gog Magog hills; intellectual life; LSD use; Morley Memorial Junior School; The Perse; Riverside Jazz Club; Sant Mat conversion; Syd on; Syd’s return; Syd’s teenage haunts; Syd’s walk to; see also University of Cambridge

Campbell, Nicky

cannabis: banners promoting; in Cambridge; compared with LSD; giant joint; ‘Let’s Roll Another One’; naming of the Tea Set; scoring in W11

Canterbury scene

Captain Beefheart

Cardew, Cornelius

Carling, Ivan

Carol Grimes Delivery

Carr, Vikki

Carroll, Lewis: and acid generation; influences Syd; as motherless; parodies; young Syd reads; writing technique

Carter, Pip

Cary, Joyce

Case, Chris

Cass, Mama

Cassady, Neal

Cautionary Tales (Belloc)

Cavanagh, John

Central Office of Information

Charles, Ray

Charrier, Paul

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Checker, Chubby

Chekhov, Anton

Cherry Hinton see Cambridge

Christie, John Reginald

Clapton, Eric

Clare, John

Clare, Patty

Clark, Dick

Clark, Petula

Clarke, Nobby

Clarke, Ossie

Clayton, Dave

CND

Cobbing, Bob

Cohen, John

Coleman, Ornette

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Coltrane, John

Cook, Peter

Cooper, David

Cope, Julian

Copenhagen

Corner, Lindsay: and ‘Apples and Oranges’; flees Syd’s moods; Gayla Pinion as friend; living with Syd; Syd’s behaviour towards

Council, Floyd

counter-culture:Hour Technicolor Dream; and AMM; beginnings in Britain; in Cambridge; Cobbing’s role; dress; as experimental; group dynamics; Hopkins’s role; literacy of; and LSD; mainstream reporting; music of; and mysticism;

counter-culture contd: non-judgemental ethos; Notting Hill Free School; and opportunism; Spontaneous Underground gigs; summer of love (1966); in W11; Wholly Communion Poetry Reading; see also drugs; Happenings; psychedelia

Cowper, William

Cox, Anthony

Coxon, Graham

‘The Cracked Ballad of Syd Barrett’ (Kent)

‘Crazy Diamond’ (BBC)

Crazy Diamond (Watkinson & Anderson)

Crazy World of Arthur Brown, The

Cream: British subjects; Disraeli Gears; drugs exposé; play fame game; on Polydor; ‘Strange Brew’; Tabernacle Club; ‘Tales of Brave Ulysses’; unrewarding gigs

Crick, Francis

Crossland, John R.

da Vinci, Leonardo

Dadomo, Giovanni

Dalby, John

Damned, the

Dare, Dan

David, Hal

Davies, Peter

Davies, Ray

Davis, Miles

De Bruyne, John

De Freitas, Michael

De Kooning, Willem

de Rollo, Stash

de Staël, Nicolas

de Wilde, G. J.

Dee, Dave

Delaunay, Robert

Dennis, Chris

Denny, Martin

Derbyshire, Delia

Deutsch, Babette

Dickens, Charles

Die Jungen Nachtwandler (Wolf)

Dine, Jim

Disney, Walt

DNA (label)

Dodd, Ken

Dodgson, Charles; see also Carroll, Lewis

Donne, John

Donovan

Doolittle, Hilda

Doors, the

Drake, Charlie

Drake, Nick

drugs see alcohol; Benzedrine; cannabis; heroin; LSD; Mandrax; opium

Duchamp, Marcel

Dunbar, John

Dylan, Bob: Blonde on Blonde; ‘Bob Dylan Blues’; creative longevity; erudition; goes electric; non-commercialised;wish list; Syd attends gig; as Syd’s model; symbolism; Tarantula; and ‘Vegetable Man’

Eagling, William

Edginton, John

Eire Apparent

Electric Prunes, the

Eliot, George

Eliot, T. S.

EMI: dissociates from psychedelia; lab-coat aspect; The Madcap Laughs; Pink Floyd deal; recording sessions; sound effects EP; and Syd’s machine-noise; Syd’s return; and unreleased recordings; Wish You Were Here; Wouldn’t You Miss Me?

Eno, Brian

Entwistle, John

Epstein, Brian

Esam, John

Esslin, Martin

Eton College

Fabian, Jenny

Faith, Adam

Faithfull, Marianne

Family

Fantasia (Disney)

Faria, Reita

Farren, Mick

Fats Domino

Faust

Fields, Duggie: on acid casualties; corrects Moles myth; exhibitions; on intellectual drug-taking; last meeting with Syd; living with Syd; on myth; painting; on Pink Floyd as pop; on Pink Floyd’s schedules; on Syd and Mandrax; on Syd’s avoidance; on Syd’s cut-ups; on Syd’s ill-preparedness; on Syd’s painting

Flanagan, Barry

Fleetwood Mac

Flies, the

Formentera

Fortescue, Lord

Fraser, Robert

Freeman, John

Freud, Sigmund/Freudianism

Frith, Fred

Fugs, the

Gale, David: atEarlham St (London); atTottenham St; onCromwell Rd; and Cambridge crowd; on Cambridge eccentrics; on Cambridge idyll; on counter-culture; on heroising of madness; on LSD; as photographer; on Pink Floyd’s fame; on Syd as cipher; on Syd and fame; on Syd imitating a lifestyle; Syd’s acid trip; on Syd’s guitar-playing; on Syd’s humour; on Syd’s independence; on Syd’s painting;

Gale, David contd: on Syd’s problems; on Syd’s rejection by Sant Mat; on Syd’s transformation

Gale, Juliette

Game, the

Gannon, Jo

Garcia, Jerry

Gardner, W. H.

Gare, Lou

Garrett, Ellen

Gausden, Libby: Beatles gig; CND march with Syd; daughter meets Syd; engagement; fails to visit Syd; glandular fever; and ‘The Gnome’; at jazz club with Syd; letters from Syd; meets Syd shopping; poem from Syd; possible marriage to Syd; sees Dylan with Syd; ‘Sunday joint’; on Syd and drugs; on Syd in Fulbourne; Syd’s billet-doux; and Syd’s diaries; as Syd’s first serious girlfriend; Syd’s irreverence; tempestuous time with Syd

Gawler-Wright, Susan

Gee, John

Geeson, Judy

Geoff Mott and the Mottoes

Gilmour, David ‘Fred’: Barrett; on Brylcreem episode; Cambridge Technical College; ‘Crazy Diamond’; as drummer; Echoes; family; ‘Have You Got It Yet?’; in Jokers Wild; The Madcap Laughs; on ‘Octopus’; Olympia gig with Syd; replacing Syd; snaps at journalists; Syd’s First Trip; as Syd’s friend; Syd’s Harris session; and Syd’s health; on Syd’s magnetism; on Syd’s mental state; Syd’s Peel session; Syd’s royalties; on Syd’s songwriting; tells Horne about Syd

Gilmour, Doug

Ginsberg, Allen

Glover, Jonathan

Godwin, Tony

Gong

Goodwin, Ron

Gordon, John

Gordon, Lucky

Grahame, Kenneth

Grant, Duncan

Green, Jonathon

Green, Peter

Green, Roger Lancelyn

Greenaway, Kate

Greenberg, Clement

Grenfell, Joyce

Grigson, Geoffrey

Groundhogs, the

Gumbrell, W.

Gun

Gurvitz, Adrian

Gysin, Brion

Hall, Jim

Hambling, Maggi

Hampson, Frank

Handel, G. F.

Hank Ballard and the Midnighters

Happenings: at Alexandra Palace; in Cambridge; the Move’s UFO set; in Piccadilly; ‘Rose Machine Buddha’

Harden, G. A.. ‘Gach’

Harris, Bob

Harrison, George

Harrison, Noel

Harrison, Patti

Hartley, Ben

Harvey, Alex

Harvey, Dermot

Hawkins, Coleman

Hawkins, Spike: as counter-culture figure; Instant Poetry Broth; LSD trip; Mandrax; ‘Scream Thy Last Scream’ film; Syd on singles; on Syd’s gothic presence; Trip gigs; writing technique

Hawkwind

Heckstall-Smith, Dick

Heliczer, Kate

Henderson, David

Hendrix, Jimi: appearance; death; drugs exposé; Electric Ladyland; package tour; on Polydor; Syd on; Tabernacle Club; what ifs

HenryPart(Shakespeare)

Henry Cow

Herd, the

heroin

Hiawatha (Longfellow)

Hill, Benny

Hills, Joan

Hipgnosis

Hitchcock, Robyn: absorbing Syd; on decline oficons; on drugs; on perceptions of Syd; on pop as shallow; on Syd’s mental érité; on Syd’s nostalgia; on Syd’s undiluted talent; on ‘Wolfpack’

Hitchens, Ivan

Hodges, Jack

Hoffman, Dr Albert

Holland, Jools

Hollingshead, Michael

Hollingsworth, Roy

Holzman, Jac

Hooker, John Lee

Hopkins, Gerard Manley

Hopkins, John ‘Hoppy’: as alternative vicar; as counter-culture figure; Eros Happening; and Free School; launches DNA; meets Boyd; on Pink Floyd; searches for club

Hopper, Hugh

Hornby, Phipps

Horne, Nicky

Horovitz, Michael

Hough, Julian

Howitt, Mary

Howitt, William

Howlin’ Wolf

Hughes, Robert

Hulme, T. E.

Hume, David

Humperdinck, Engelbert

Huston, Anjelica

Hutt, Dr Sam

Huxley, Aldous

Ibiza

Ichikawa, Kon

If (Anderson)

Iggy (Syd’s girlfriend)

Iles, Chrissie

Incredible String Band, the

Inside Out (Mason)

Inskip, Thomas

Instant Poetry Broth (Hawkins)

International Times

Ionesco, Eugene

Isherwood, Christopher

Jackson, Holbrook

Jacobs, David

Jagger, Mick

James, Elmore

jazz: and counter-culture; and ‘Interstellar Overdrive’; legend of ‘Syd’; Leonard’s LP collection; Riverside Jazz Club; Syd’s liking for; and Syd’s temperament

Jenner, Peter: assessment of Syd; background; on covering for Syd; on EMI and drugs; and Free School; on ‘Golden Hair’; on ‘Interstellar Overdrive’; launches DNA; light-show unit; managing Pink Floyd; managing Syd; on meeting Pink Floyd; Melody Maker interview; and Piper at the Gates of Dawn; produces AMMMusic; on Smith’s production; on Syd atCromwell Rd; on Syd and fame; on Syd’s guitar playing; on Syd’s hair shearing; Syd’s last session; on Syd’s mental state; as Syd’s producer; on Syd’s solo LPs; on touring; tries to sign Pink Floyd; writing of ‘Vegetable Man’

Jesus and Mary Chain

Johns, Jasper

John’s Children

Johnson, Thomas

Jokers Wild

Jones, Brian

Jones, Cliff

Jones, Malcolm

Jones, Nick

Jones, Paul

Jones, Tom

Joplin, Janis

Joyce, James

Joyce, Mary

Jumping Jewels, the

Jung, C. G.

Kaminsky, Jean-Simone

Keats, John

Keeler, Christine

Keller, Hans

Kelly, Ellsworth

Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen

Kent, Nick

Kerouac, Jack

Kesey, Ken

Kessel, Barney

Kettle, Thomas

King, Andrew: and Free School; on grieving for Syd; on John Latham; light-show unit; managing Pink Floyd; managing Syd; on package tours; on Pink Floyd’s US tour; produces AMMMusic; rescuing Syd; on ‘Scream Thy Last Scream’; on Syd’s guitar-playing; on Top of the Pops; Welsh cottage

Kingsmen, the

Kinks, the

Kirk, Roland

Kline, Franz

Klose, Bob: and Cambridge crowd; on echo units; family radicalism; on guitar technique; leaves Pink Floyd; on Leonard; as Pink Floyd guitarist; Sigma(band); on Syd and Bo Diddley; on Syd and painting

Klose, Helmut

Knight, Laura

La Cantatrice chauve (Ionesco)

Lacy, Bruce

Lacy, Steve

Laing, R..

Last Minute Put Together Boogie Band

Latham, John

The Laurel and Gold Anthology (Crossland)

Lautréamont, Comte de

Lear, Edward: hatred of reponsibility; influences Lennon; influences Syd; letter to Fortescue; love of nature; melancholic poetry; as motherless; Syd mimics drawings; wordplay

Leary, Timothy

Leckie, John

Led Zeppelin

Lee, Dick

Leeming, Joseph

Lemon Pipers, the

Lennon, John: atHour Technicolor Dream; ‘Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite!’; ‘Blind Date’ feature; ego-death and renewal; influenced by Lear; and LSD; as ‘lunatic’; meets Yoko; shooting; ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’; and trad rock

Leonard, Mike: ‘Crazy Diamond’; light shows; Stanhope Gardens

Lesmoir-Gordon, Jenny: at Cromwell Rd; and Cambridge crowd; the Chalk Pits; converts to Sant Mat; on LSD; meets Syd in Cambridge; on Syd and fame; Syd’s health; on Syd’s rejection by Sant Mat; on Trip gigs

Lesmoir-Gordon, Nigel: at Cromwell Rd; his beard, and Syd; and Cambridge crowd; converts to Sant Mat; film-making; Happenings; on LSD; replacing Syd; Roodmoodment nights; on Syd as poet; Syd’s First Trip; on Syd’s freaking out; Syd’s health; on Waters, Wright and LSD

Lewis, Jerry Lee

Leyshon, Geoff

Lichtenstein, Roy

light shows: and ‘Astronomy Domine’; as barrier; exponents of; Games for May; IT launch; Jenner and King’s unit; Leonard at Hornsey College; as musical stimulus; Pink Floyd’s change of direction; Tomorrow’s World feature; UFO; visitors from Millbrook

The Little Grey Men (Watkins-Pitchford)

Lockwood, Sir Joseph

London:Earlham St;Tottenham St;Cromwell Rd; Abbey Road studios; Alexandra Palace; art galleries; Better Books; British Museum; Camberwell Art College; Chelsea Cloisters; Commonwealth Institute; Egerton Court; Hilton Hotel; Hornsey College of Art; Kew Gardens; Marquee club; Notting Hill Free School; Olympia; Penta Hotel; Queen Elizabeth Hall; Quorum; Regent Street Polytechnic; Roundhouse; Royal Albert Hall; Sound Techniques studios; Speakeasy; Stanhope Gardens; W11; Wetherby Mansions; Whitechapel Gallery; Wholly Communion Poetry Reading; see also UFO club

Longfellow, Henry

Los Angeles

Love

LSD: atCromwell Rd; and Alice; American, in W11; and the Beatles; casualties; and childhood; and CIA; destructiveness of; discovery of; effects of; and ‘Flaming’; latter-day use; and ‘Matilda Mother’; and the Move; myths; placebo, at Roundhouse; as pleasant diversion; as sacrament; Sandoz; spiking myth; Syd on; synaesthesia; at UFO; use in Cambridge; and Waters

Lupus Music

Lyttleton, Humphrey

Ma Rainey

McCartney, Paul

MacDonald, Ian

‘Mad Jock’

‘Mad Sue’

Madcap (Willis)

Mahaffey, Vicki

Mahoney, Terry

The Making of ‘The Madcap Laughs’ (Jones)

Mandrax

Mann, William

Marmalade

Marsh, John

Martin, George

Marvell, Andrew

Marvin, Hank

Mason, Carol

Mason, Nick: abandons architecture; appearance; architectural studies; on audience hostility; film of five-piece; on Games for May; indifference to drugs; ‘Interstellar Overdrive’ drum roll; The Look of the Week; produces the Damned; Regent Street Polytechnic; as rhythmic anchor; A Saucerful of Secrets; Sigma(band); on Syd as pop star; on Syd’s departure; on the Tridents; US Greyhound tour; on US tour

Matisse, Henri

Matthew, Brian

Maughan, Susan

MC5, the

Meades, Jonathan

Medley, Robert

Mendelsohn, Felix

Merry Pranksters, the

Messenger, Ron

Metcalfe, Clive

Metzger, Gustav

Michell, John

Miles, Barry: at Better Books; on ‘embryonic scene’; Pink Floyd review; on Pink Floyd’s tediousness; on summer of love; on Syd andChing; on Syd’s art influences; on Syd’s dress; on Trip gig; on Wholly Communion Poetry Reading

Millais, John Everett

Milne, A. A.

Milton, Ted

Mitchell, Adrian

Moles, the

Monck, Jack

Mondrian, Piet

Monk, Thelonious

Monkees, the

Monro, Matt

Montgomery, Wes

Moody Blues, the

Moon, Keith

Moore, Henry

Moore, Ian ‘Emo’

Morris, Brenda

Morrison, Bryan

Morrison, Jim

Mosley, Oswald

Mother Goose (Greenaway)

Mothers of Invention, the

Mottlow, Geoff

Move, the

Muddy Waters

Murray, Anna

Murray, Pete

Nash, Paul

Nashe, Thomas

Nektar

New York

Newbolt, Sir Henry

Newman, Brad

Newman, Patrick

Newton John, Brinley

Nitzsche, Jack

Noakes, Vivian

Noble, Keith

Noble, Sheilagh

Nuttall, Jeff

O’Connell, Ella

O’Connell, Michael William

O’Connell, Seamus

O’Connell, Victoria

O’Flaherty, Peter

Oldenburg, Claes

Oldfield, Mike

On the Road (Kerouac)

Ono, Yoko

opium

Orwell, George

Osmond, Dr Humphrey

Outer Limits, the

Ove, Horace

Page, Hester: on myth of fame; on replacing Syd; on Syd and fame; on Syd’s charm; on Syd’s dress; on Syd’s retreat; on Waters’ ego

Page, Jimmy

Page, Russell

Paramounts, the

Paris

Parker, Charlie

Parker, David

Patmos

Patten, Brian

Paul Butterfield Blues Band

Payne, Bruce

Peel, John

Pegram, Lorna

Peregrine-Took, Steve

Peynet, Raymond

Picasso, Pablo

Pink Floyd (with Syd): aborted Speak soundtrack; agent; alternative names; as arrivistes; audience hostility; Binson Echorec; commercialised; creative momentum shifts from Syd; demo tape and auditions; Dick Clark’s Bandstand; drug use; EMI deal; films of; five-piece; high priests of psychedelia; improvisation; influence of AMM; influence on Britpop; Juke Box Jury; Klose as first guitarist; Klose’s departure; lack of conventional skills; ‘Lifelines’ (NME); light show; The Look of the Week; management; as middle-class; naming of; new sonic palette; odd recording hours; press reviews; propelled into mainstream; quadraphonic system; R & Brepertoire; Regent Sound sessions; replacing Syd; Saturday Club; Smith as engineer; Sound Techniques sessions; Syd on; Syd’s departure; Top Gear sessions; Top of the Pops; transition to psychedelia; turn professional; as underground house band; wall of sound gigs:Hour Technicolor Dream (Alexandra Palace); All Saints Hall, W11; Camberwell Art College; cancellations; Copenhagen; as five-piece; Games for May (Queen Elizabeth Hall); International Love-In (Alexandra Palace); IT launch (Roundhouse); Marquee; Notting Hill Free School; package tour; Pat Boone Show; provincial ballrooms; Psychedelicamania (Roundhouse); Rotterdam; Spontaneous Underground (Marquee); the Trip (Marquee); UFO; US tour

songs and LPs: ‘Apples and Oranges’; ‘Arnold Layne’; ‘Astronomy Domine’; ‘Bike’; ‘Butterfly’; ‘Candy and a Currant Bun’; ‘Chapter’; ‘Double O Bo’; Echoes; ‘Flaming’ (aka ‘Snowing’);

Pink Floyd (with Syd): songs and LPs contd: ‘Flapdoodle Dealing’; ‘Games for May’; ‘The Gnome’; ‘Have You Got It Yet?’; ‘I’m a King Bee’; ‘In the Beechwoods’; ‘Interstellar Overdrive’; ‘Jugband Blues’; ‘Let’s Roll Another One’; ‘Lucifer Sam’; ‘Lucy Leave’; ‘Matilda Mother’; A Nice Pair; ‘Nick’s Boogie’; ‘Paintbox’; Piper at the Gates of Dawn; ‘Pow R. Toc H.’; ‘Reaction in G’; Relics; ‘Remember a Day’; ‘Remember Me’; A Saucerful of Secrets; ‘The Scarecrow’; ‘Scream Thy Last Scream (Old Woman in a Casket)’; ‘See Emily Play’; ‘Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun’; ‘Stoned Alone’; ‘Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk’; ‘Vegetable Man’; ‘Walk With Me Sydney’

Pink Floyd (without Syd): EMI deal; European tour; films; gigs; La Vallée; management; More; rationale for dropping Syd; re-energised without Syd: structural logic: success; Syd on; Syd’s legacy; US tour; Zabriskie Point songs and LPs: ‘Apples and Oranges’; ‘Astronomy Domine’; Atom Heart Mother; ‘Brain Damage’; ‘Comfortably Numb’; ‘Corporal Clegg’; The Dark Side of the Moon; ‘You Gotta Be Crazy’; Echoes; ‘The Great Gig in the Sky’; Meddle; ‘Money’; ‘Paintbox’; ‘Raving and Drooling’; A Saucerful of Secrets; ‘The Scarecrow’; ‘See Emily Play’; ‘Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun’; ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’; ‘Time’; Ummagumma; ‘Us and Them’; Wish You Were Here

Pinkerton’s Assorted Colours

Pinyon, Gayla

Pitman, Robert

Plastic Ono Band, the

Pollock, Alice

Pollock, Benjamin

Pollock, Jackson

Pollock, Robbie

pop: and avant-garde; on BBC; and counter-culture; gestural language; no tradition of dissent; Pink Floyd as; Pink Floyd’s novelty; as shallow; Syd on

Potter, Beatrix

Pound, Ezra

Powell, Aubrey ‘Po’

Presley, Elvis

Pretty Things, the

Prévost, Eddie

Prior, Lucy

Procol Harum

Pryor, William

psychedelia: the Beatles; Britpop; as compulsory pop sound; and EMI; Mason’s drumming; as ‘one-month wonder’; Pink Floyd as high priests of; Pink Floyd’s transition to; ‘See Emily Play’ as high point; sonic landscape of; Syd never a literalist; as synaesthesia; UFO as epicentre; see also counter-culture; light shows; LSD

Psychedelic Renegades (Rock)

punk

Purple Gang, the

Pyle, Steve

Quakerism

Quant, Mary

Rachman, Peter

Radha (Cherry Hinton resident)

Radio Caroline

Radio London

Radiophonic Workshop

Random Precision (Parker)

Ratledge, Mike

Rauschenberg, Robert

Rawlinson, Andrew: onHills Rd; assessment of Syd; on ‘Bike’; and Cambridge crowd; on the County; debating society; on Eagling; and Fart Enjoy; Happenings; on myth of Syd; on Piper at the Gates of Dawn; as rugby player; and Sant Mat; on Syd’s charm; on Syd’s fall; on Syd’s First Trip; on Syd’s painting; on Syd’s sources; on Waters

Rayner, Chris

Reed, Jimmy

Rees-Mogg, William

Reeves, James

Reeves, Jim

Reid, Jamie

Reinhardt, Django

Richard, Cliff

Richard, Keith

Rimbaud, Arthur

The Rite of Spring (Stravinsky)

Robinson, ‘Ponji’

Robinson, Robert

Rock, Mick

Rock, Sheila

Rolling Stones, the: and ambition; as druggy jam band; drugs bust; hair; Jones’s befuddlement; Lesmoir-Gordon circle; opportune psychedelia; reactionary influence; The Rolling Stones; Sigmacovers; Syd on; Those Without covers

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Rothko, Mark

Rotten, Johnny

Rotterdam

Rowe, Keith: and audio-concrete; on creativity in painting; on decline oficons; deconstructionist guitar-playing; on flexible music scene; ideological basis; and jazz; on obscurity; on Syd’s ‘reclusement’

Rushdie, Salman

Rycroft, Charles

Sagan, Françoise

Saint-Saëns, Camille

Sainty, Tony

Salinger, J..

Salmon, Ronnie

San Francisco

Sant Mat

Santana, Carlos

Savile, Jimmy

Schroeder, Barbara

Schwitters, Kurt

Scurfield, Matthew

Searchers, the

Secunda, Tony

Sedgwick, Nick

Seeger, Pete

Sex Pistols, the

Shadows, the

Shakespeare, William

Shapiro, Helen

Sheaff, Lawrence

Shirley, Jerry

Sigma(band)

Simon, Paul

Simon Dupree and the Big Sound

Sinclair, Iain

Sinclair, May

Singh Ji, Maharaj Charan

Sizer, Alan

Skin Alley

Slade

Slim Harpo

Sly Stone

Small Faces, the

Smith, Debbie

Smith, Norman

Smith, Patti

Smoke, the

Social Deviants, the

Soft Boys, the

Soft Machine:Hour Technicolor Dream;Club; Ayers’ departure; IT launch; The Madcap Laughs; Trip gigs; Wyatt’s departure

Sontag, Susan

Southey, Robert

Soutine, Chaim

Speak (Latham)

Spector, Phil

Spencer Davis Group

Spicer, Jack

Spires, Jenny

Spontaneous Musical Ensemble

Springfields, the

Stanley, Owsley

Staples, Gilly

Stapley, Pat

Starr, Ringo

Stars: break up; formation; gigs; myth of; rehearsals

Steele, Tommy

Stella, Frank

Stern, Anthony: assistant director on Tonite; Cambridge crowd; on Cambridge idyll; on class in pop; on conservatism of rock; film-making; on ‘Interstellar Overdrive’; on light shows; The Perse; on Syd and Bo Diddley; on Syd and LSD; on Syd’s androgeny; on Syd’s later paintings; visits from Syd

Stern, J.

Stevens, Cat

Stevens, John

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Stigwood, Robert

Still and Chew/Art and Culture in (Latham)

Stock

Stollman, Steve

Stooges, the

Stubbs, Stanley

Summerhill School

Sutcliffe, Stu

Sutton, Denys

Swinging Blue Jeans, the

Symons, Arthur

Syn and the Flies

Taylor, Mick

Tea Set, the see Sigma(band)

Television Personalities, the

Tennyson, Emily

Thomas, Dylan

Thorgerson, Evangeline ‘Vanji’

Thorgerson, Storm: and Cambridge crowd; film course; Hipgnosis; Lindsay’s refuge with; maternal household; as rugby player; at Summerhill; on Syd and Lindsay; Syd refuses to see; on Syd’s rejection by Sant Mat; Those Without

Tomorrow

Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London (Whitehead)

Topol

Townshend, Pete

Traffic

Tremeloes, the

Tridents, the

Trim, Judy

Trim, Richard

Trocchi, Alexander

Troggs, the

Tucker, Mo

Tulloch, Courtney

Tulloch, Margaret

Turner, Steve

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Tzara, Tristan

UFO club (London): films of; Flies abuse Pink Floyd; light-shows; location; the Move as regulars; and Notting Hill Free School; Pink Floyd’s last appearance; snobbism; Syd on; Syd’s attunement to; and Syd’s mental state; tedious improvisation

Underground: Scene Special (Granada TV)

University of Cambridge: beauty of; Doug Gilmour at; eccentricity of dons; Max Barrett at

Van Der Graaf Generator

Van Gogh, Vincent

Vance, Tommy

Velvet Underground, the

Verlaine, Paul

Vicious, Sid

Virgin Records

Voormann, Klaus

Wagstaff, Mr

Walker, John A.

Walker Brothers, the

Walsh, Alan

Ward, Stephen

Warhol, Andy

Waters, Mary

Waters, Roger: abandons architecture; ambition; architectural studies; A-stream pupil; COI film; competence as bassist; ‘Crazy Diamond’; on early Pink Floyd; final UFO appearance; and hostile audience; indifference to drugs; on ‘Interstellar Overdrive’; The Look of the Week; LSD trip; as lyricist; The Madcap Laughs; marriages; maternal household; mental illness imagery; on misunderstanding of Pink Floyd; origin of his tone; ORTF film; on Pontypool gig; Regent Street Polytechnic; as rugby player; A Saucerful of Secrets; ‘Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun’; Sigma (band); slow musical development; splits Pink Floyd; and success; on Syd’s talent; as teenage rebel

Watkins, Peter

Watkins-Pitchford, Denys

Watkinson, Mike

Watts, Alan

Watts, Isaac

Watts, Michael

Waugh, Arthur

Welch, Chris: ‘Blind Date’ feature; Melody Maker interview; on news of Syd’s problems; on resentment of Pink Floyd; on romance of Syd’s decline

Welham, Clive

Wesker, Arnold

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill

Whitehead, Peter

Whitely, John

Who, the: and Britpop; ‘Bucket T’; hair; package tour; play fame game; on Polydor; Psychedelicamania; A Quick One; The Who Sell Out

Wilhelm, Richard

Willis, Stan

Willis, Tim

Wilson, A. N.

Wilson, Brian

Wilson, Harold

Wilson, John

Wilson, Willie

Winchester

The Wind in the Willows (Grahame)

Wing, John

Winwood, Steve

Wolf, Edmund

Wood, Roy

Woolf, Virginia

Wordsworth, William

Wright, Rick: abandons music college; Barrett; Binson Echorec; ‘Crazy Diamond’; ‘In the Beechwoods’; indifference to drugs; The Look of the Week; LSD trip; The Madcap Laughs; ‘Paintbox’; ‘Pow R. Toc H.’; Regent Street Polytechnic; ‘Remember a Day’; Rotterdam gig; ‘Scream Thy Last Scream’; sidelined in Pink Floyd; Sigma(band); singing; as Syd’s closest spirit; on Syd’s departure; tedious improvisation; ‘Two of a Kind’

Wyatt, Alfie

Wyatt, Robert

Wynne Wilson, Peter

X, Michael

Yardbirds, the

Yeats, W. B.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Young, Emily

Young, Neil

Zappa, Frank

Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band