All the mad men: Barrett, Bowie, Drake, the Floyd, the Kinks, the Who and the journey to the dark side of English rock

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1965-68: Here comes that nineteenth nervous breakdown -- 1969: Something in the water -- 1970-71: There's more out than in -- 1971-72: Half in love with easeful death -- 1971-72: Nowt strange as folk -- 1972-73: The reclaiming of America -- 1974-75: The act of (self- ) preservation.;By the end of 1968 The Beatles were far too busy squabbling with each other, while The Stones had simply stopped making music; English Rock was coming to an end. "All the Madmen" tells the story of six stars that travelled to edge of sanity in the years following the summer of love: Pete Townshend, Ray Davies, Peter Green, Syd Barrett, Nick Drake, and David Bowie. The book charts how they made some of the most seminal rock music ever recorded: "Pink Moon"; "Ziggy Stardust"; "Quadrophenia"; "Dark Side of the Moon"; "Muswell Hillbillies" - and how some of them could not make it back from the brink. This is the extraordinary story of how English Rock went mad and found itself. 1965-68: Here comes that nineteenth nervous breakdown -- 1969: Something in the water -- 1970-71: There's more out than in -- 1971-72: Half in love with easeful death -- 1971-72: Nowt strange as folk -- 1972-73: The reclaiming of America -- 1974-75: The act of (self- ) preservation.