Syd Barrett a vécu quelques temps dans un appartement au 101 Cromwell Road à Londres. C'était une collocation avec, entre autres, Duggie Fields, Mick Rock et Nigel Lenoir Gordon. C'est ce même Nigel Gordon qui tient la caméra dans le DVD Syd's First Trip. L'immeuble n'existe plus aujourd'hui.

« He lived for a time in a flat in the Cromwell Road with various characters, acid-in-the-reservoir, change-the-face-of-the-world acid missionaries. Everyone knew that if you went round to see Syd, never have a cup of tea, never take a glass of water unless you got it yourself from the tap, because everything in that flat was spiked. » — John Marsh ¹, extrait de No Man's Land de Robert Sandall.

« 101 Cromwell Road was the catastrophic flat where Syd got acided out. He had one of our cats and they even gave the cats acid. I don't think they were evil geniuses deliberately trying to fuck with Syd's mind, they were just heavy, loony messianic acid freaks. As soon as we realised what was going on we moved him out of Cromwell Road into a flat in South Ken, where he lived with Storm and Po (Thorgerson and Powell, Hypgnosis), but by then it was too late. » — Peter Jenner, extrait de No Man's Land de Robert Sandall.

• Adresse : 101 Cromwell Road, London, SW7 4ER.

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