The talented but troubled Pink Floyd co-founder is certainly celebrated by Nick Mason’s group, now on their seventh tour in ...
The earliest known artwork by rock star, Syd Barrett, the pastel and watercolour ... In his later years, he continued to find peace in creating art, often destroying his work upon completion.
Barrett was behind Floyd’s first three singles (“Arnold Layne”, “See Emily Play”, “Apples And Oranges”) and at the same time ...
David Gilmour doesn't have many Pink Floyd regrets, however, there is one studio album that he looks back on with a certain ...
It's never easy to start things with a new member of a group, but these members massively improved on the original formula.
Art Garden Health Syd's Garden will open in the grounds of Addenbrooke's Hospital in 2018 Addenbrooke's offered them a plot a year ago - and fundraising got under way. Mr Pyle knew Barrett as a ...
In 2007, the members of Pink Floyd reunited for a tribute concert in London in honor of the band's co-founder Syd Barrett, ...
But Pink Floyd existed before Gilmour's arrival and after Waters' departure, with important contributions made in these eras by the whimsical Syd Barrett ... as a solo artist through a ...
Hipgnosis design icon Storm Thorgerson wanted to convey the band’s feelings about Barrett’s absence on the sleeve art. In ...
The ongoing feud between Pink Floyd powerhouses David Gilmour and Roger Waters has gotten real ugly at times, and it’s pretty ...
As a writer and singer of surreal, sublime pop songs, he is both whimsical and profound; a genuinely charming English eccentric who comes across as a sort of hybrid of John Lennon, Syd Barrett and ...
To a generation that went pop with The Beatles, they’re archetypal muso pioneers who elevated rock into a refined late 20th century art form. Today ... the original Floyd frontman Syd Barrett was a ...