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Pigs will fly, as the old saying goes, before feuding musicians Roger Waters and David Gilmour reunite to make a new Pink ...
The bitter rivalry between Roger Waters and David Gilmour tore Pink Floyd apart, revealing shocking details of a feud that ...
Pink Floyd decidedly left Syd Barrett behind in 1968 en route to a show at Southampton University after joking about not picking him up.
Syd Barrett in 1967, his face lit by psychedelic lights. In summer 1975, Pink Floyd were struggling with ninth album Wish You Were Here.
After he left Pink Floyd, nobody was quite sure what to make of where Syd Barrett would go next. The resulting album tells us ...
The earliest known painting by Pink Floyd founding member, the late Syd Barrett, is going under auction later this month. The painting, a pastel and watercolour work entitled Dried Flowers (which ...
Syd Barrett was born Roger Keith Barrett in Cambridge, England on January 6, 1946. As a teenager, Barrett gained the nickname "Syd"—and also a taste for collecting instruments.
The band was formed in 1965 by Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright, and they were later joined by David Gilmour in 1967.
This legendary 1967 tune comes from Pink Floyd’s debut album, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. The album would be the only Pink Floyd release to be led by Syd Barrett, and the whole of the ...
Specifically, these are from Barrett’s bedroom at the time in London’s Wetherby Mansions, and he painted the boards himself with help from Evelyn Rose, who appeared nude on the back cover.
Syd Barrett once reviewed “A Little Piece Of Leather” by Gene Latter back in 1967, and it’s clear that it was one of his favorites. He noted that it was a great piece of work to come out of ...