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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 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 ...
'Barrett,' the second – and last – solo effort from former Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett, arrived on Nov. 14, 1970.
Pigs will fly, as the old saying goes, before feuding musicians Roger Waters and David Gilmour reunite to make a new Pink ...
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 ...
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.
The story of Pink Floyd is a whirlwind of death, madness, bad blood, herculean guitar solos and towering egos. But one of the ...
Fifty-eight years ago today, Pink Floyd released their debut album featuring lyrics by their original singer, Syd Barrett.
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 ...
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 ...