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Syd Barrett
Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett 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 and stream-of-consciousness writing. As a guitarist, he was influential for his free-form playing and for employing effects such as dissonance, distor…
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entertainment · English musician (1946–2006) · guitarist · singer · poet · singer-songwriter · also Syd Barrett, Roger Keith Barrett, Barrett
Born 6 January 1946 · Died 7 July 2006 · Q173061
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2026· 3 entries
“Perhaps we could make the middle darker and maybe the end a bit middle afternoonish. At the moment it”
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“Gee, it sure is nice to be in Las Vegas!”
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2021· 2 entries
The Guardian: Hey teacher … how Syd Barrett’s artistic genius flowered at school
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Released album “HYGIY? v3.0, Vol II”.
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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: Shine on you crazy garden! Syd Barrett's strangest tune yet
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2016· 4 entries
The Guardian: One Thinks of It All As a Dream review – psychedelic salute to Syd Barrett
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The Guardian: Syd Barrett: the genius who almost was – a classic profile by Nick Kent
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In correspondence with the 70th anniversary birthday, The Theatre of the Absurd, an Italian independent artists group, published a short movie in honour of Barrett named Eclipse, with actor-director Edgar Blake in the ro
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Released album “Joyful Lunacy: The Syd Barrett Anthology”.
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2015· 1 entry
The Guardian: Mick Rock’s best photograph: Syd Barrett on a Pontiac Parisienne
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2012· 1 entry
The engineer Andy Jackson said he had found a number of tapes in Mason's possession, containing versions of R&B songs that Pink Floyd played in their early years
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2011· 2 entries
The Guardian: Radio review: The Twilight World of Syd Barrett
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It was announced that a vinyl double album version would be issued for Record Store Day
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2010· 2 entries
Released album “An Introduction to Syd Barrett”.
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Released album “Psychedelic Freak Out”.
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “You Got It Now!”.
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2006· 2 entries
Died 2006-07-07.
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“Eu não acho que seja fácil de ser definido. Eu tenho uma mente dispersa. E eu não sou nada que você pensa que eu sou.”
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “The Radio One Sessions”.
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2002· 1 entry
His first since the 1970s, when he autographed 320 copies of Psychedelic Renegades, a book by the photographer Mick Rock which contained a number of photos of Barrett
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “The Best of Syd Barrett (Wouldn’t You Miss Me?)”.
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “The Return of the Crazy Diamond”.
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1996· 4 entries
Wright said that Barrett's mother told the members of Pink Floyd not to contact him because being reminded of the band would make him depressed for weeks
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Barrett was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pink Floyd
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Barrett was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pink Floyd, but did not attend the ceremony
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He knew what they wanted, but he wasn't willing to give it to them." In 1996, Wright said that Barrett's mother told the members of Pink Floyd not to contact him because being reminded of the band would make him depressed for weeks.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “Melk Weg”.
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1993· 3 entries
EMI issued Crazy Diamond, a boxed set of all three albums, each with further out-takes from his solo sessions that illustrated Barrett's inability or refusal to play a song the same way twice
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Released album “Crazy Diamond”.
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Released album “Magnesium Proverbs”.
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “Octopus”.
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1988· 5 entries
Released album “Opel”.
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EMI Records (after constant pressure from Malcolm Jones) made an album of Barrett's studio out-takes and unreleased material recorded from 1968 to 1970 under the title Opel
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A reporter from the News of the World tracked down Barrett and declared him "a hopeless case"
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Released ep “The Peel Session”.
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EMI released an album of unreleased tracks and outtakes, Opel, with Barrett's approval
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1987· 2 entries
An album of Barrett cover songs called Beyond the Wildwood was released
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Released album “Vegetable Man, Where Are You?”.
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1982· 1 entry
But soon returned to Cambridge permanently
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1978· 2 entries
When Barrett's money ran out, he moved back to Cambridge to live with his mother
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Released album “Laughing”.
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Unforgotten Hero”.
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1974· 2 entries
Released album ““The Madcap Laughs” and “Barrett””.
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Barrett left the music industry, retired from public life and guarded his privacy until his death
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1971· 1 entry
Before his retirement from the music industry, and Barrett visited Rock in London several times for tea and conversation in 1978
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1970· 2 entries
Released album “Barrett”.
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Released album “The Madcap Laughs”.
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1969· 1 entry
At the behest of EMI and Harvest Records, he embarked on a brief solo career, releasing two solo albums, The Madcap Laughs and Barrett (both 1970), and a single, "Octopus"
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1968· 1 entry
Was Pink Floyd's frontman and primary songwriter, known for his whimsical style of psychedelia and stream-of-consciousness writing
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1967· 1 entry
“s first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967), and songs that later appeared on his solo albums. His reading reputedly included Grimm”
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1966· 1 entry
Pink Floyd became a popular group in the London underground psychedelic music scene
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1965· 2 entries
When they were called the Tea Set (sometimes spelled T-Set) When they played with another band of the same name, Barrett came up with the name the Pink Floyd Sound (also known as the Pink Floyd Blues Band, later the Pink
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Barrett had his first LSD trip in the garden of his friend Dave Gale, with Ian Moore and the future Pink Floyd cover artist Storm Thorgerson
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1964· 3 entries
The band that would become Pink Floyd evolved through various line-up and name changes including the Abdabs, the Screaming Abdabs, Sigma 6 and the Meggadeaths
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Barrett and Gausden saw Bob Dylan perform
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Studied at Camberwell College of Arts (1964).
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1963· 1 entry
Became a Rolling Stones fan and attended a performance at a village hall in Cambridgeshire
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1957· 1 entry
Attended Cambridgeshire High School for Boys with Waters
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1951· 1 entry
His family moved to 183 Hills Road, Cambridge
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1946· 1 entry
Born 1946-01-06.
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