The Coming Home Newsletter
•
2nd December 2022
The rise and fall of the 'acid casualty'
I’ve been fascinated with music’s so-called ‘acid casualties’ since I was about fifteen. Think Syd Barrett, Peter Green, Brian Wilson et al: the group of musicians who took psychedelic drugs - primarily LSD - in the late-1960s and early-1970s, and then developed significant mental health problems, often lifelong and ruinous to their art.