Syd Barrett
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The people behind Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown are planning a Syd Barrett movie
By Classic Rock published
Could Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett and The Mamas & The Papa’s Cass Elliot be getting the big screen treatment?

The real Syd Barrett, by the people who knew him
By Kris Needs published
The magic and mystery surrounding the architect of Pink Floyd endures – and a larger canvas emerges of a confident, multi-talented originator...

Earliest known Syd Barrett painting to be auctioned
By Jerry Ewing published
Syd Barrett's 1963 pastel and watercolor Dried Flowers goes up for auction in July

David Bowie on the "magical" Syd Barrett
By Paul Brannigan published
"His impact on my thinking was enormous." David Bowie on Syd Barrett

The rise and decline of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd’s original singer and psychedelic icon
By Mick Wall published
Original Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett died on July 7, 2006. This is the story of the rise and decline of a psychedelic icon

“He was definitely there, and it was weird”: Syd Barrett’s 1975 visit to Pink Floyd‘s studio
By Martin Kielty published
Five years after they’d felt forced to dump him, the band’s original leader shocked his former colleagues at Abbey Road in 1975

"I was employed to take Jimi Hendrix round Paris for an evening, show him a good time": Pink Floyd's David Gilmour on his adventures in 1960s France, hanging with Jimi Hendrix, partying with Brigitte Bardot and getting arrested with Syd Barrett
By Paul Brannigan published
For future Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, '60s France offered a sense of freedom that he didn't find at home in Cambridge, until he got arrested busking with Syd Barrett

"They were very avant-garde and I thought I was too, and it was all going to be very beautiful, man": how Pink Floyd learned to fly
By Rob Hughes published
In 1965 the musicians who'd become Pink Floyd were searching for a sound: then they ditched their R&B repertoire for much freakier fare

"It was really a magical thing. He fell into a psychedelic crack": a man who accompanied Syd Barrett on his ill-fated acid trips is now a viral sensation on TikTok
By Fraser Lewry published
Prince Stanislas Klossowski de Rola a.k.a. Prince Stash has gained over 100,000 followers on TikTok with his rock'n'roll stories
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