Mark Blake pulls on his own interviews with music group members as well as the group’s close friends, road crew, music contemporaries, former housemates, and university colleagues to make a riveting background of one of the biggest rock bands of all time. We follow Red Floyd from the first psychedelic evenings at UFO, towards the stadium-rock and concept-album zenith from the seventies, towards the acrimonious schisms from the late ’80s and ’90s. Along the way there are amazing new revelations about Syd Barrett’s chaotic existence during Piper on the Gates of Dawn, the band’s painstaking and Byzantine recording classes at Abbey Road, as well as the fractious negotiations to effect a result of their fragile, tantalizing reunion in Hyde Recreation area.Meticulous, exacting, and ambitious as any Green Floyd album, Easily Numb may be the definitive account of the most adventurous-and most English-rock band.