A new book of mine on Syd Barrett has been in the shops for a few months now. It is called "Scritto sui Rovi" (Written on the Brambles).
After Syd's death on 7 July 2006 and all that followed (estate auction, sale of the house, an attempt to normalise his figure by means of the website run by his nephew Ian, Rob Chapman's biography/textbook and the recent TV movie ‘Have you got it yet?‘, a book on the alleged Asperger's syndrome...) I felt it my moral duty to take up my long-standing thesis on the fate of the English musician: Syd consciously withdrew from the rock scene because he was uninterested in becoming yet another music biz star and ‘society of the spectacle’ (see Guy Debord).
If you are interested in this alternative interpretative trajectory, you can buy the book (this time written only in Italian) either directly from my publisher Zona (at: https://editricezona.it/), in bookshops or on online sales portals.
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