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Pink Floyd decidedly left Syd Barrett behind in 1968 en route to a show at Southampton University after joking about not picking him up.
The Syd Barrett Estate has launched an official YouTube channel for the Pink Floyd founder - first up are new videos for Terrapin, Dominoes and Dark Globe ...
After he left Pink Floyd, nobody was quite sure what to make of where Syd Barrett would go next. The resulting album tells us ...
The chief songwriter and original frontman for Pink Floyd, the late Syd Barrett had a career as memorable as it was brief. After writing the majority of the band’s lyrically psychedelic 1967 ...
Syd Barrett in 1967, his face lit by psychedelic lights. In summer 1975, Pink Floyd were struggling with ninth album Wish You Were Here.
'Barrett,' the second – and last – solo effort from former Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett, arrived on Nov. 14, 1970.
Barrett: The Definitive Visual Companion is the only official book about the late Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett and features over 350 images, including rare photographs, artwork, letters and more.
Pigs will fly, as the old saying goes, before feuding musicians Roger Waters and David Gilmour reunite to make a new Pink ...
Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett (1946-2006) would have been 75 years old on January 6. To commemorate his birthday, we’re republishing the following except from Nicholas Schaffner’s book ...
Syd Barrett co-founded and named Pink Floyd, wrote most of its early songs, anticipated the psychedelic era of the ’60s–and then all but disappeared from the British rock scene he helped ...
July 7, 2011 / 10:10 AM EDT / CBS News Roger Waters, co-founder of the group Pink Floyd, sings in Hong Kong, Feb. 15, 2007, as an image of the late Syd Barrett is projected on the back screen. Getty ...