The making of Pink Floyd’s 1975 masterpiece was partly a tribute to their former frontman - but when Syd Barrett himself ...

A new bar in Cambridge, The Artyst: Cambridge’s Centre for Arts & Wellbeing, will honour Syd Barrett, one of the city’s favourite sons – and it has begun by recreating an album cover image. Born in ...

Syd's interactions with music and sound were personal explorations of art, not attempts to top the charts or please fans. This attitude led Rosemary to reflect on fame, saying: "Fame is such a ...

His back catalogue is nearly as influential as the entirety of Pink Floyd’s work in its own right. Born Roger Barrett in Cambridge, Syd formed a bond with two schoolmates, Roger Waters and Bob Klose, ...

In 1979, Syd returned to Cambridge for good ... Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Barrett, as we all know, turned up at the studio, allegedly unrecognised by the band at first.

He was born Roger Keith Barrett in Cambridge in 1946 and met his future bandmate Roger Waters at Cambridge High School for Boys. Around this time he acquired the nickname "Syd". He first picked up ...

Late Pink Floyd icon Syd Barrett to be honoured with series of films and guided walks at this year’s Cambridge Film Festival When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A guitar once owned by Pink Floyd founder member Syd Barrett will be sold in Cambridge at auction later this week. The singer lived in the basement of his mother's house in Hills Road in Cambridge ...

A guitar once owned by Pink Floyd founder member Syd Barrett is to be sold at auction for charity. The singer left the band in 1968, as they were about to achieve worldwide recognition, and lived in ...

Few musicians leave behind a legacy that is as influential and mysterious as the late Syd Barrett. Born in Cambridge, England in 1946 to a comfortable middle-class background, he was the youngest of ...

And when they first met, in Cambridge in the Christmas of 1964, neither could know she would become a rock-solid island of stability in his life. Syd Barrett was just launching on a rocket-like ...

This image (by Jo Randall): memorial concert at the Corn Exchange celebrating Syd Barrett Ruthie Collins reflects on Cambridge's most famous musical son, Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett “I don’t think ...