All the Madmen: Barrett, Bowie, Drake, the Floyd, The Kinks, The Who and the Journey to the Dark Side of English Rock – – Clinton Heylin

The extraordinary story of how English rock went mad and found itself

By the end of 1968 The Beatles were far too busy squabbling with each other to work together, while The Stones were off the road and in trouble; English rock was in crisis. All the Madmen tells the story of what happened next; how six stars travelled to the edge of sanity in the years following the summer of love and how some could not make it back from the brink.

Leading rock historian Clinton Heylin charts how these performers made some of the most seminal rock music ever recorded and offers an extraordinary portrait of their creators, as well as a dangerously forthright insight into the times.