Roger Waters already had a great reputation for amazing work with Pink Floyd, but he checked out from the band after this ...

This album is a tribute to former bandmate Syd Barrett, whose mental decline resonated deeply within the band. The iconic title track has become an anthem for the feeling of missing someone ...

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 ...

“Echoes” from Meddle to their Syd Barrett tribute “Shine on You Crazy Diamond,” there was one extended track that Roger ...

Pink Floyd legend Syd Barrett has died at his Cambridgeshire ... and ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’, from the 1975 album ‘Wish You Were Here’, was a tribute to him. Sensationally, Barrett ...

Nothing had been heard from Syd Barrett for more than 30 ... which featured on the same 1975 album as that track. Its lyrics formed a poignant tribute: "Remember when you were young, you shone ...

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 ...

In a bumper week for rock-related programmes, a long-gestating profile of Syd Barrett offers little that ... was the subject of a Children in Need tribute. And three years after that he was ...

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 ...

Now the brilliance and mental struggles of Syd ... Roger Barrett, to withdraw from the music industry and public life altogether. Pink Floyd's song Shine On You Crazy Diamond was a tribute to ...

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 ...

The data displayed for this chart goes back to 1994, however we hope to be able to offer deeper historic information at a future point ...