A crossroad of rockstars right here!
Syd Barrett had lived at number 902, a large 2 bedroom apartment on the ninth floor, here at the Chelsea Cloisters, off Kings Road in South Kensington since 1973, when Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen moved in one of the ‘cockroach-infested‘ flats in June 1977.
Without success, the Sex Pistols, their manager Malcolm McLaren and their art director Jamie Reid tried to contact Barrett, to ask him to produce their first album. Even The Damned later hoped he would produce their second, and when they realised it was impossible, settled for Pink Floyd‘s Nick Mason (‘who didn’t have a clue‘, according to Captain Sensible). Just around the corner from Chelsea Cloisters was The Marlborough Arms (now a fancy Argentine restaurant called Gaucho), the pub where Syd Barrett used to go drink on his own during those dark years of his life. He lived here, intermittently, up until the summer of 1982.
Address: Chelsea Cloisters, Sloane Avenue, SW3 3DW
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