A founding member of Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett was best known as the lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter during the band's heavily psychedelic early years. He composed the majority of ...

It’s time to take a psychedelic dive into these facts and decide for ourselves. 2. He Became Syd Syd Barrett was born Roger Keith Barrett in Cambridge, England on January 6, 1946. As a teenager ...

These psychedelic albums will take you on a magical journey, some decades after they were released. Some records just age better than others.

They said, ‘Come down to the Christmas party at the art college and see them.’ First I met Syd Barrett’s girlfriend Lindsay Korner, and I thought, ‘Wow, just my cup of tea.’ Then I saw ...

When Roger Waters left Pink Floyd during the 1980s, David Gilmour was finally able to express his own ideas freely , and he ...

Alice Cooper invited psychedelic heroes Pink Floyd to stay with him in Los Angeles, but soon found himself auditioning for a ...

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 ...

The first album to define its own contents as psychedelic was the debut album ... from BBC Radio 4 documentary The Twilight World of Syd Barrett outlines, the Floyd frontman was unable to cope ...

Creating psychedelic sounds and founders of the Liverpool Psychedelic Society. “TAKE THEIR CUE FROM ST SYD BARRETT’S CLASSIC TRACK AND SWOOP OFF INTO A THIRTY-MINUTE JAM OF EPIC PSYCHEDELIC ...

Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright influenced countless artists across genres such as progressive, psychedelic, acid, and arena rock. The band's catalog is ...