The last ever interview of Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett
WEBSep 23, 2020 · Syd Barrett was the definition of a tortured genius, one who sadly succumbed to a drug addiction that made him increasingly more erratic during the late 1960s. The result, of course, left his bandmates with no choice but to remove him from Pink Floyd in 1968 and his final interview was a portrait of a shadow of his former self.
Pink Floyd news :: Brain Damage - 1982 - Actuel Magazine
WEBIn 1982 a couple of French Journalists tried tracking Syd Barrett down for an interview. They called in at his last known residence in London, (the Chelsea Cloisters Apartments) to find the only thing left behind by Barrett was a bag of old laundry.
The strange and last interview of Pink Floyd ex-member Syd Barrett
WEBSep 20, 2020 · Syd Barrett, ex-Pink Floyd member died back in 2006 after living in seclusion half his life. In 1982, he gave his last and strange interview.
Syd Barrett’s Last Interview - Cosmic
WEBIn 1982 Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett, who had retired from public life in 1972, had been living in seclusion for closing in on a decade. Unperturbed, French journalists Michka Assayas and Thomas Johnson tracked Barrett down on behalf of Actuel Magazine.
Syd Barrett’s “Last Interview” : r/pinkfloyd - Reddit
WEBThe 1982 story is 100% real but the 2001 interview is not. Here is Tom Cox’s original article for The Guardian. It’s about the mystique surrounding Syd that drove people to find him in person decades after he left Pink Floyd.
You shone like the sun - The Syd Barrett Archives
WEBPink Floyd's tribute to Syd Barrett on Wish You Were Here, 1975. The received wisdom is that you don't disturb him.The last interview he gave was in 1971, and from then until now, there are only about 20 recorded encounters of any kind.
Documentary provides a comprehensive portrait of Syd Barrett
WEBJul 19, 2024 · The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd‘ uses interviews, archive footage and filmed re-creations to give the viewer a fuller picture of the troubled early creative force in Pink Floyd.
“He didn’t like to be reminded of the past… he went to his sister’s …
WEBJul 25, 2023 · Syd Barrett became something of a mythical creature after his split with Pink Floyd, the band he’d led for its first three years. In 2020 Prog reflected on the wide-ranging legacy he’d left since abandoning the music industry in 1972 and his death in …
The Cracked Ballad of Syd Barrett
WEBBrian Jones was casually snuffed out, Jimi Hendrix blew up in his own face… but one extraordinary tragi-comedy struggles on and on: The Cracked Ballad of Syd Barrett… There is a story that exists pertaining to an incident which occurred during one of Syd Barrett’s later gigs with Pink Floyd.
Syd Barrett: A Saucerful Of Secrets - Louder
WEBSep 20, 2022 · For the last 15 years of his life Syd Barrett lived a mostly peaceful life in Cambridge. His not insubstantial Pink Floyd royalties meant he never needed money, but he did once work for a short time as a gardener at the urging of his mother, who thought he should keep occupied.
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