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 Floyd's 1967 debut album ...

S everal months before releasing their debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Pink Floyd released their first single on March 10, 1967.Written by frontman Syd Barrett, “Arnold Layne ...

Nothing had been heard from Syd Barrett ... solo albums, The Madcap Laughs and Barrett, aided by his replacement in Pink Floyd, Dave Gilmour. Highlights include Octopus, a surreal diatribe allied ...

a harbinger of a potent rebirth that would deliver one of the best-selling albums in rock history. For the members of Pink Floyd, that rebirth couldn’t come soon enough. Four years earlier, mercurial ...

Pink Floyd legend Syd ... Barrett’s behaviour. It got so bad that on the way to a gig in Southampton in January 1968, Pink Floyd elected not to pick him up. When Pink Floyd’s second album ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Gabby Barrett Gives Birth to Her New Album: 'Both Exciting Releases!' (Exclusive) Gabby Barrett Says She's Turned Down Duets in Order to 'Respect' Her Husband: 'Not Going to Jeopardize My Marriage ...

An Oklahoma family has come to grips with its new reality after acquiring an octopus to raise as a pet, only for her to stunningly produce a small army of hatchlings. “In case it wasn’t ...

By Tatiana Tenreyro A new Billie Eilish era is underway, as she has announced the title and release date of her third album. For her upcoming LP Hit Me Hard and Soft, which arrives on May 17 ...

Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world’s oddest couples. What’s so startling is the size difference: Males are about the size of a walnut—less than an inch long—but some ...