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In Psychedelia and Other Colours, acclaimed author Rob Chapman explores in crystalline detail the history, precedents and cultural impact of LSD, from the earliest experiments in painting with light and immersive environments to the thriving avant-garde scene that existed in San Francisco even before the Grateful Dead and the Fillmore Auditorium. In the UK, he documents an entirely different history, and one that has never been told before. It has its roots in fairy tales and fairgrounds, the music hall and the dead of Flanders fields, in the Festival of Britain and that peculiarly British strand of surrealism that culminated in the Magical Mystery Tour. Sitars and Sergeant Pepper, surfadelica and the Soft Machine, light shows and love-ins - the mind-expanding effects of acid were to redefine popular culture as we know it.
Psychedelia and Other Colours documents these utopian reverberations - and the dark side of their moon - in a perfect portrait.
About the Author
Rob Chapman is the author of perhaps the most acclaimed biography of Syd Barrett, Syd Barrett: An Irregular Head. He has written three other books and was a member of the Bristol based group, The Glaxo Babies.
Industry Reviews
"Psychedelia and Other Colours, a work of rare scholarship and insight, opens a window onto a much misunderstood multicoloured era." - Spectator Ian Thomson
"As an account of psychedelia's glorious highs and preposterous charms, Chapman's exhaustive exploration of this Arcadian age with take its rightful place as the standard text" - The New Statesman Rob Young
ISBN: 9780571282746
ISBN-10: 0571282741
Published: 3rd August 2017
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 656
Audience: General Adult
For Ages: 0 years old
Publisher: Faber
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.3 x 4.8
Weight (kg): 0.86
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