The life of Syd Barrett was not an easy one, but the legacy he left behind is one of the most respected in psychedelic rock.

Have You Got It Yet? is part of a modest flurry of Barrett activity, along with the launch of an official Youtube channel and a BBC Radio 4 drama, The Ballad Of Syd & Morgan, about a fictional ...

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 singer, 60, who suffered from an LSD-induced breakdown while at the peak of his career in the Sixties, died last Friday ... in the next few days.” ‘Syd’ Barrett was born Roger Keith ...

trying to escape from the shadow of their brilliant erratic insufferable genius ex-front-man Syd Barrett. They had come a long way from the hallucinogenic whimsy of Piper At The Gates Of Dawn and ...

Stephen Pyle Freewheeling: The centrepiece will be a sculpture celebrating Barrett's student days "Syd's sister said he ... where he played his last live gig. A blue plaque was also dedicated ...

It took place at Cambridge Corn Exchange in late January 1972 with The Last Minute Boogie Band supporting Hawkwind and The Pink Fairies. A few days later, STARS was formed with Syd Barrett, Jack Monck ...

The original incarnation – under the guidance of founding guitarist/vocalist Syd Barrett – yielded one ... on the list and ...

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A certain Maslovsky, a Social Revolutionary of the Left, had presented himself one day, in the uniform of a ... and passengers bruised and sore. But at last the two hundred and eighty versts ...

It last played that venue in 2020. “We play all eras of Pink Floyd from the early Syd Barrett days, to the later exclusion of the Roger Waters era, and everything in between,” Jeremy Andrews said.

“Mind you, I was pretty out of it,” he continued, smiling like Rowley Birkin in The Fast Show), and he no longer stays up for ...