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...
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I first heard about Syd Barrett's “History of Art” several years ago, and was really hoping it would turn out to be true. Imagine, not Gombrich’s Story of Art or Janson’s History of Art, but Syd Barrett’s History of Art,. I was looking forward to seeing the expression on the...
At the age of seventeen Barrett left Cambridge to study at London’s Camberwell Art School where he was reunited with his old friend Roger Waters. He joined Roger’s band the Pink Floyd and quickly became their main songwriter. The band was named after two Georgia blues men Pink Anderson an...
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...
We greet each other cordially. I continue my visit with the guide who takes tourists (there aren't that many, 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 documentat...
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...