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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. Until his departure in 1968, he was Pink Floyd's frontman and primary songwriter, known for his whimsical style of psychedelia, [1] English-accented singing, and stream-of-consciousness writing style. [4]
The founding members of Pink Floyd were Roger Waters, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright, who enrolled at the London Polytechnic at Regent Street in September 1962 to study architecture, [2] and Syd Barrett, two years younger than the rest of the band, who had moved to London in 1964 to study at the Camberwell College of Arts. [3]
David Jon Gilmour was born on 6 March 1946 in Cambridge, England. [5] He has three siblings: Peter, Mark and Catharine. [6] His father, Douglas Gilmour, was a senior lecturer in zoology at the University of Cambridge, and his mother, Sylvia (née Wilson), was a trained teacher who later worked as a film editor for the BBC. [7]
Ex-officer Derek Chauvin makes another bid to overturn federal conviction in murder of George Floyd, this time with help of a Topeka pathologist. Topeka pathologist believes a rare tumor was the ...
Wright was the only member of Pink Floyd to profit from the Wall tour, since the net loss had to be borne by the band members. [39] He did not attend the 1982 premiere of the film of Pink Floyd—The Wall. [40] In 1983, Pink Floyd released The Final Cut, the only Pink Floyd album on which Wright does not appear. His absence from the album ...
INTERVIEW: The guitarist and his wife, the novelist Polly Samson, talk to Geordie Greig about collaborating on his new album, the secret of their lasting love, their fears about mortality, and why ...
George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. In 1965, he co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd as the bassist. Following the departure of the songwriter, Syd Barrett, in 1968, Waters became Pink Floyd's lyricist, co-lead vocalist and conceptual leader until his departure in 1985.
Irv Gotti, Def Jam hip-hop exec and Murder Inc. co-founder, dies at 54. August Brown. February 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM. ... The statement did not include a cause of death, but Gotti had suffered ...