'By the early winter of ‘66 it was all starting to take off,' agrees King. 'But it didn't surprise me. It was the first time I'd ever been involved in group management so I assumed that what was happening was normal. Y'know. You manage a band. You end up in the papers and then all these curious geezers come round and offer you funny deals. And then you get rich and famous and have sex with thousands of flower children.'
Rob Chapman – Syd Barret A Very Irregular Head (p. 115)