"What all the nice people have been saying about Psychedelia and other Colours.

'A fantastic, exhaustive history of the genre: comprehensive but gripping, packed with eye-opening period detail and with a brilliant analysis of everything from Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to the oeuvre of the Crocheted Doughnut Ring"

Alexis Petridis, The Guardian

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"An exhaustive, idiosyncratic and very entertaining reappraisal of an often lazily documented period"

Jim Irvin, Mojo

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'...it's not so much that Rob Chapman's book brings new insights to the table (though it does that too): it's more that it constitutes a whole other table in its own right"

Oregano Rathbone, Record Collector

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"As an account of psychedelia's glorious highs and preposterous charms, Chapman's exhaustive exploration of this Arcadian age will take its rightful place as the standard text"

Rob Young, The New Statesman

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"Brilliantly written, crammed full of original ideas. An astonishing achievement that all self-respecting Shindiggers should rush out and buy immediately"

Shindig Magazine

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"Psychedelia and Other Colours provides by far the most detailed map to help us navigate the twisted alleyways of the psychedelic experience and its tentacle-like influence in the 50 years since Ken Kesey first staged Acid Tests in California"

Line of Best Fit

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"A work of rare scholarship and insight"

Spectator

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"Chapman's ability to see outside of the usual psychedelic perspective makes for dazzling reading"

Caught By The River

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"Chapman has little to say that's startlingly new. More discography than discourse"

Allan Jones, Uncut