Syd Barrett: How LSD Created and Destroyed His Career With ... - Biography
WEBSep 8, 2020 · Syd Barrett: How LSD Created and Destroyed His Career With Pink Floyd. An over-reliance on psychedelic drugs drove the rock star from the bounds of reality and forced his bandmates to cut...
can someone explain what happened with syd barrett? : r/pinkfloyd - Reddit
WEBThe short of it is Syd was a spectrum type schizophrenic who exacerbated his condition with heroic dosages of LSD. He never came back mentally and lived a quiet life tending his garden at his mother's home in Cambridge.
Syd Barrett - Wikipedia
WEBRoger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, guitarist and songwriter who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd in 1965.
Was Syd Barrett an Acid Casualty? - Paste Magazine
WEBMay 2, 2017 · Most people believe his excessive LSD consumption led to Barrett’s demise, but recent studies suggest psychedelics can perhaps improve mental health, not ruin it.
Watch Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett’s first-ever acid trip
WEBNov 28, 2023 · Barrett, a man responsible for writing the majority of early Pink Floyd material, pioneered guitar techniques such as feedback, dissonance and distortion, all while living the rock and roll lifestyle to its utmost.
Syd Barrett: Behind The Pink Floyd Co-Founder’s Madcap Genius
WEBJan 6, 2021 · On 7 July 2006, a year after Pink Floyd gave a touching tribute to their ex-frontman during their Live 8 reunion, Syd Barrett died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 60. It’s a shame he couldn’t have been afforded a more fairy tale ending.
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.
The Syd Barrett story by Syd and those who knew him
WEBPeter Jenner: Syd was an exceptional figure, far and away the most important in the band. He wrote the songs, he was the singer, he played most of the solos, he was the lead guitarist, it was his band. He was much the most interesting, much the most cre ative: the others were just students.
Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett (1946–2006) - American Journal of ...
WEBJul 1, 2007 · Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett was both the founding member of one of the most legendary rock bands and probably the most famous rock star to develop psychosis. He formed the band that would become Pink Floyd in 1965, amalgamating the first names of two American bluesmen, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.
Crazy Diamond: how LSD ruined Pink Floyd's fragile genius Syd Barrett
WEBFeb 14, 2021 · By the age of 23, Pink Floyd's poetic frontman had changed music forever – then the drugs unloosed something inside him. Syd Barrett, top left, during his tenure with Pink Floyd. Andrew...
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