Latest about Syd Barrett
“How dare he revolutionise rock’n’roll then walk away!” Syd Barrett was never lost. He just didn’t want to be found
In the 90s a Prog writer set out to doorstep the former Pink Floyd mastermind and demand an explanation for his disappearance from music. It didn’t go to plan – which came as a great relief
Derek Shulman takes aim at Syd Barrett, Beach Boys and Eagles in his not-very-gentle memoir Giant Steps
Former Gentle Giant vocalist who became an A&R bigwig provides an refreshingly undiplomatic account of his career on stage and off it
The people behind Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown are planning a Syd Barrett movie
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
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
Syd Barrett's 1963 pastel and watercolor Dried Flowers goes up for auction in July
David Bowie on the "magical" Syd Barrett
"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
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
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
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
