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July 11, 2006

Syd Barrett (1946-2006)

Founding frontman and songwriter for Pink Floyd dead at 60
July 11, 2006

The Madcap Who Named Pink Floyd

Rolling Stone's 1971 interview with Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd's founding lead singer
February 14, 2001

Syd Barrett Song Unearthed

Former Pink Floyd mastermind lampoons Dylan in 1970 track
December 23, 1971

The Madcap Who Named Pink Floyd

A look inside Syd Barrett's private world

Recordings and Reviews

Crazy Diamond

Is this still really Pink Floyd? That seems to be the question, as it has been since Roger Waters left the band in 1985 to dip deeper into the sci-fi soup. Waters has since missed no opportunity to slag his former band mates as incompetent fakes. He would suggest that he was Pink Floyd, although...

1994 RS: 2of 5 Stars

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British singer/songwriter guitarist Syd Barrett was an art-school student in London when he founded and named Pink Floyd [see entry] in 1964. He wrote "See Emily Play" and "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" for the group, and his acid-inspired lyrics were the quintessence of London's 1967 Summer of Love. Barrett was dismissed from the band in April 1968 because of his drug-induced personality problems; ...

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