Devastated by the LSD consumption indulged by many with joyful abandon ... To his credit, Gilmour – who made sure Syd got his ...

Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett, one of the founding members of ... Yet, as Barrett’s use of drugs, particularly LSD progressed, ...

“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 ...

The story of Syd Barrett’s decline and Pink Floyd’s desperate ... “and also for that LSD enlightenment, which was very prevalent at the time and taken very seriously. If you were going ...

Unsupervised use of hallucinogens like LSD is high, posing significant risks. However, LSD is being clinically tested for treating anxiety and so far seems effective.

However, fans who have taken the time to learn about every era of the famed progressive rock band know that the famed outfit’s origins started with the legendary Syd Barrett. Barrett wasn’t ...

Pink Floyd legend Syd Barrett has died at his Cambridgeshire home. The singer, 60, who suffered from an LSD-induced breakdown while at the peak of his career in the Sixties, died last Friday (July 7).

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 ...

While in California to promote their Apples And Oranges single, Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett began to show signs of the behaviour ...

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 ...

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.

LSD was first synthesized by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in 1938, working for Sandoz Pharmaceuticals (now part of Novartis) in Basel, Switzerland. He discovered its powerful psychoactive effects ...