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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]
Born Roger Keith Barrett in Cambridge in 1946, Syd (who acquired the nickname in his early teens) was always artistic — he was as talented a painter as he was a musician — and always a leader ...
Roger Waters – bass; Richard Wright – keyboards; Bob Klose – guitar; Syd Barrett – vocals, guitar; 1965: Their First Recordings (2015) Mid 1965 – December 1967 (The Tea Set until late 1965, Pink Floyd from late 1965 onwards) Nick Mason – drums; Roger Waters – bass, vocals; Richard Wright – keyboards, vocals; Syd Barrett ...
and Roger said "I don't know." And I said "Well, I assumed he was a friend of yours," and he said "No, I don't know who he is." Anyway, it took me a long time, and then suddenly I realised it was Syd, after maybe 45 minutes. He came in as we were doing the vocals for "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", which was basically about Syd.
Barrett co-founded Pink Floyd with Roger Waters and Nick Mason in 1965 while he was still a teenager, and was the creative visionary behind the band’s early psychedelic classics The Piper at the ...
Syd Barrett’s time with Pink Floyd lasted a scant three years, from 1965 to 1968. His impact on the group he co-founded, however, not to mention countless other artists over the last 60+ years ...
Directed by John Edginton, the film includes interviews with all the Pink Floyd members – Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright – plus the "fifth Pink Floyd", Bob Klose, who left the band in 1965, getting their points of view on the original band founder Syd Barrett. The film includes rare early television appearances ...
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