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Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, guitarist and songwriter who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd in 1965.
Sep 8, 2020 · Syd Barrett: How LSD Created and Destroyed His Career With Pink Floyd. An over-reliance on psychedelic drugs drove the rock star from the bounds of reality and forced his bandmates to cut ties...
Apr 2, 2014 · Guitarist Syd Barrett helped found the psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd. After a mental break forced his departure, he spent 30 years as a painter and recluse.
Jul 7, 2024 · You will have read about how he was the original guiding light of Pink Floyd, who wrote, sang and played guitar on their first hits, including their classic debut album The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, released at the apex of the Summer Of Love in 1967.
Jun 24, 2020 · Syd Barrett was instrumental in forming Pink Floyd, one of the biggest rock bands of all time. But his life would end up very different than those of his former bandmates.
Jul 13, 2020 · Barrett found public attention painful, reports Cosmic Magazine, and seemed more than happy to leave his Pink Floyd days behind him, though the royalty checks helped support him in his more-or-less retirement years. He was treated in psychiatric hospitals, but mostly kept to himself, a recluse.
Jul 25, 2023 · Syd Barrett became something of a mythical creature after his split with Pink Floyd, the band he’d led for its first three years. In 2020 Prog reflected on the wide-ranging legacy he’d left since abandoning the music industry in 1972 and his death in 2006 at the age of 60.
Jan 6, 2021 · On 7 July 2006, a year after Pink Floyd gave a touching tribute to their ex-frontman during their Live 8 reunion, Syd Barrett died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 60. It’s a shame he couldn’t have been afforded a more fairy tale ending.
Peter Jenner: Syd was an exceptional figure, far and away the most important in the band. He wrote the songs, he was the singer, he played most of the solos, he was the lead guitarist, it was his band. He was much the most interesting, much the most cre ative: the others were just students.
Jan 9, 2023 · Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett showed signs of mental illness early in the band's career. Here's what his earliest interviews revealed about his mental health.
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