The talented but troubled Pink Floyd co-founder is certainly celebrated by Nick Mason’s group, now on their seventh tour in ...

Barrett was behind Floyd’s first three singles (“Arnold Layne”, “See Emily Play”, “Apples And Oranges”) and at the same time ...

“In retrospect, I don’t think [Syd] was equipped to deal with the experience because he was unstable to begin with.” Unstable or not, Barrett was profoundly moved by his first LSD experience ...

Since David Gilmour assumed the role of Pink Floyd mastermind in 1985, it comes as no surprise that two of his favourite ...

A founding member of Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett was best known as the lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter during the band's heavily psychedelic early years. He composed the majority of ...

The band, first led by singer, songwriter and guitarist Syd Barrett ... the BBC film explained. Barrett drifted out of the band, after experimenting with LSD. He had helped put Pink Floyd on ...

Sadly, as the below clip below from BBC Radio 4 documentary The Twilight World of Syd Barrett outlines ... exacerbated by large quantities of LSD. Roger Waters and David Gilmour took control ...

Above: Syd Barrett. And then of course there's probably ... a nervous breakdown apparently brought on by a prodigious diet of LSD. Of course, British psych inspired its fair share of dross and ...

On May 10, 2007, the members of Pink Floyd united for The Madcap’s Last Laugh, a tribute concert at the Barbican in London, honoring the band’s co-founder Syd Barrett, who died in 2006 at ...

With the precociously talented Syd Barrett at the helm ... Barrett’s psyche unraveled with distressing rapidity, his prodigious LSD intake the major (if not sole) factor, and by April 1968 ...

A childhood friend of Pink Floyd legend Syd Barrett is developing a hospital garden in his honour. Syd's Garden will be "laced with little clues" about the singer, according to Stephen Pyle.