SYD’S MADCAP FLOORBOARDS SOLD AT AUCTION! BUT HOW?

Ian Harrison

TAKEN IN Syd Barrett’s spartan flat at Wetherby Mansions in Earl’s Court, the cover image of his 1970 solo debut The Madcap Laughs contained intriguing clues. Did the vase of wilting blooms signify his own impending drift into endless silence, and the death of the flower power hippy dream? Barrett, poised like a frozen sprinter, wasn’t telling, and seemed somehow stuck to floorboards painted in alternating shades of orange and purple. Part of the striking graphic appeal of the sleeve – taken by Mick Rock in 1969 – were these floorboards, which have occupied their own place in the Barrett mythos ever since. Now, 55 years on, the floorboards have been found and sold by Newton-le-Willows-based music specialists Omega Auctions. Omega Auctions director and co-founder Paul Fairweather recalls being contacted…

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