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 ...

It will initially focus on the solo songs which originally appeared on An Introduction To Syd Barrett (2010)." Peter Barrett said on behalf of the family: “There isn’t all that much filmed Syd ...

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason, along with others, tell the legacy of Syd Barrett in this trippy documentary – from his promising Cambridge upbringing to dropping out ...

Now the brilliance and mental struggles of Syd Barrett, the songwriter immortalised by his band Pink Floyd which he left in 1968, is to be explored in a new play by the Scottish author and ...

Nothing had been heard from Syd Barrett for more than 30 years, but the announcement of his death yesterday still came as a sad blow to rock music fans. KEIRON PIM pays tribute to the mysterious ...

Its latest is Have You Got It Yet?The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd, which has been 12 years in the making.One of its co-directors, Storm Thorgerson, who conducts many of the interviews ...

Written by Syd Barrett, 'The Scarecrow' opens with Richard Wright's plaintive keyboards, an introduction that primes the senses for a later Baroque, psychedelic folk instrumental section—a sound ...

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).

The 12-string Yamaha acoustic guitar fetched almost double its pre-sale estimate of £5,000 to £10,000, with the proceeds split evenly between charities Mind and the Arthur Rank Hospice.

Throughout its duration from the mid-1960s and into the 2000s, Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright influenced countless artists across genres such as ...

They began as a vehicle for Syd Barrett, a warped-minded genius whose interest in psychedelia didn’t stop at the music. The band’s 1967 debut album, ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn,’ is a ...

Pink Floyd's student digs go on sale but at this price you'll have to wish you were here ...