Who Was Syd Barrett? Guitarist Syd Barrett took to music at an early age. While in London for college, he joined the band that would become Pink Floyd as the guitarist and wrote many of their early songs. He soon became erratic and was forced to leave the band. After a brief solo car...
2006 - Pink Floyd co-founder Roger "Syd" Barrett dies in Cambridge, England at the age of 60, due to complications from diabetes.
Syd Barrett’s History of Art Well, not really. One of the revelations in Rob Chapman’s new biography of the legendary painter, piper, mystic Syd Barrett, founder member of rock mastodon Pink Floyd, is that Syd wasn’t planning to write a story of art, sad to say. ...
to be honest) into the monastery. He is a monk of more or less my age. At the end of the visit I ask him for news about Barrett. He replies: “Yes, there is documentation that proves he stayed here.", but adds that "The monks have stored everything ...
Born Roger Keith Barrett in 1946 in Cambridge, Syd obtained his nickname from regulars at a local jazz club who christened him after an old drummer from the area. At the age of seventeen Barrett left Cambridge to study at London’s Camberwell Art School where he was reunited with his ...
Who Was Syd Barrett? Guitarist Syd Barrett took to music at an early age. While in London for college, he joined the band that would become Pink Floyd as the guitarist and wrote many of their early songs. He soon became erratic and was forced to leave the band. After a brief solo car...
2006 - Pink Floyd co-founder Roger "Syd" Barrett dies in Cambridge, England at the age of 60, due to complications from diabetes.
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It’s the beginning of the end for Barrett’s career and mental health, but the inauguration of the band as mass-market phenomenon.According to the filmmaker, Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, the film “just happened…. It is an unself...