It is with much sadness that we bring you the news that Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett has passed away, leaving us on Friday, July 7th, 2006. An official statement confirmed the news, stating that "he died ...

While the band was initially founded by Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Richard Wright and Roger Waters, the lineup didn’t stay that way for long. New members joined, including David Gilmour, who helped ...

British Musician Syd Barrett was born Roger Keith Barrett on 6th January, 1946 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England and passed away on 7th Jul 2006 Cambridge, England aged 60. He is most remembered ...

Bassist Roger, 80, left the band in 1985 after unsuccessfully ... last performed together at 2005's Live 8 charity gig.

Syd Barrett released his debut solo album. The Madcap Laughs. The Madcap Laughs was recorded over several sessions from May ...

Syd Barrett's guitar was put up for sale by his ... Barrett, whose real name was Roger Keith Barrett, mentioned the guitar in a 1971 interview with Rolling Stone magazine. He told the journalist ...

What would appear to be a repackaging of the Peel Session CD from the 1990s, is actually an augmented and remastered collection of Syd Barrett sessions, recorded for BBC Radio 1. Work has been done on ...

Roger Waters brought a new serious depth to Pink Floyd when he started writing lyrics for the group in the 1970s. He took inspiration from two folk legends.

...Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd. Follow the tragic journey of Syd Barrett - the original singer of Pink Floyd - as interviews with those closest to him detail ...

But the irony is that when they were recording the track on the album Roger specifically wrote for Syd, Shine On You Crazy ...

After the misfiring 1968 sessions for The Madcap Laughs, Barrett and Floyd’s former manager Peter Jenner had seen little to nothing of Syd (“I think he did come into our office once to get a passport ...