also, i just found this description of the book at
http://www.theshortbookco.com/nonfiction/madcap.html
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Madcap The half-life of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd's lost genius
Tim Willis
Beautiful, charismatic, prodigiously talented, Syd Barrett in 1966 invented the British psychedelic scene - founding Pink Floyd, writing and singing on the band’s first album - before collapsing into madness two years later.
Now a caravan-bound, eccentric, fat recluse, Syd has not given an interview for more than 30 years. But in his half-life he has become a cult icon of rock - as Hendrix, Morrison and Cobain became after their deaths.
In Madcap, Tim Willis traces the history of rock’s lost genius, gains exclusive access to Syd himself and those closest to him throughout his life, and brings his crazy, illuminating story up to the present day.
Tim Willis is a journalist. He writes features for magazines including the Saturday and Sunday Telegraph magazines, Esquire and Tatler.
Paperback original
128pp
£4.99
ISBN 1-904095-24-0
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caravan bound? I thought he lived in a nice house in Cambridge?