Nov 28, 2019
You wait for months for an update, then two come along at once. This time, a British music magazine, Shindig!, ran an appreciative review of the novel. Like a number of other reviews, it mentions how suitable the story would be for a stage adaptation, and some moves...
Nov 28, 2019
Apologies for leaving so long a gap between Updates 6 & 7. Earlier this year a splendid US music magazine called Ugly Things ran a pleasing review of the novel, and also got in touch with me via Propolis Books to ask some questions about how the book both came...
Mar 24, 2019
One of the many and varied pleasures of having The Ballad of Syd & Morgan out there in the world comes from hearing how its readers have subsequently returned to the works of Syd Barrett and E M Forster which inspired it – or in some cases are now hearing and...
Mar 6, 2019
Prompted by a very old friend to compile a personal ‘Top Twenty’ during a recent email exchange, my brief to myself was to select 20 singles as a kind of desert island collection. The songs not only have to have been singles, they must ideally have been experienced...
Jan 26, 2019
In an interesting feature on the Syd Barrett website, ‘produced and authorised by the Barrett family to remember Syd’, people write short reflections on individual songs by the great man. I was delighted to be asked by the family to choose a song, then...
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