A Saucerful Of Secrets followed The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn in 1968.It’s a bittersweet release, too. During the production of the album, Syd Barrett’s mental health began to decline. The ...

Once the shining star of Pink Floyd, and the entire UK psychedelic scene, by 1974 Syd Barrett was a cracked shell of his former self. David Gilmour, the guitarist who had taken Syd's place in his ...

In 2016, marking 10 years since Syd Barrett’s death, Prog explored the magic and mystery of the man who created Pink Floyd from the perspective of those who’d been close to him, revealing a ...

Technically, Barrett was only active in music for a collective decade. He had a short solo career that included two albums. By 1972, he had effectively left the music world and became quite ...

Sheet Music (5 of 8) - Enter the Dufer Bar that's located across from the small yard where you met the Guardian, and then head upstairs. In the same upper room as a memory, look along the far wall ...

Syd Barrett's earliest known work is to be auctioned off. The late Pink Floyd star - who died in 2006 at the age of 60 - originally trained as a painter before becoming a part of the 'Wish You Were ...

Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett went away for a long weekend. When he came back, he was a completely different person. Australia has some of the world’s toughest gun laws – it now wants to tackle ...

Syd's music will keep him alive long after Roger Keith Barrett's death. We will never fully understand the mystery of Syd Barrett, but Have You Got It Yet? tries honourably. ( Mercury Studios ) ...

Barrett dropped out of the music business after Pink Floyd dropped him. He made something of a comeback in 1970. That’s the year he released the solo albums The Mapcap Laughs and Barret .

The story of Syd Barrett that has been told and retold is that he founded Pink Floyd, lost his mind to LSD-induced psychosis, and disappeared into a deliberate and determined obscurity.

Syd Barrett was the guiding light of the original Pink Floyd — the band’s singer, primary songwriter and guitarist from their first day until their psychedelia-defining 1967 debut album ...