Syd Barrett
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Syd Barrett was a British musician (1946–2006) best known as the founder and early frontman of the influential rock band Pink Floyd, whose innovative music in the late 1960s helped shape psychedelic rock. His songwriting, guitar work, and distinctive vocal style were central to Pink Floyd's early success, though his later years were marked by mental health struggles that limited his musical output.
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- 2006-07-07
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Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (January 6, 1946 – July 7, 2006) was an English singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and painter. Best known as a founder of the band Pink Floyd, Barrett was the lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter in its early years and is credited with naming the band. Barrett was excluded from Pink Floyd in April 1968 after David Gilmour took over as their new…
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- Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd — Self (archive footage)2023
- Pink Floyd - On Thin Ice — Self (archive footage)2020
- Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock — Self - Musician (archive footage)2017
- Pink Floyd: The Early Years, Vol 2 - Germin/ation — Self2016
- Pink Floyd: The Early Years, Vol 1 - Cambridge St/ation — Self2016
- Pink Floyd: The Early Years, Vol 7 - Continu/ation — Self
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Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, guitarist and songwriter who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd in 1965. Until his departure in 1968, he was Pink Floyd's frontman and primary songwriter, known for his whimsical style of psychedelia and stream-of-consciousness writing. As a guitarist, he was influential for his free-form playing and for employing effects such as dissonance, distortion, echo and feedback.
Barrett was musically active for just over ten years. With Pink Floyd, he recorded the first three singles, their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967), part of their second album, A Saucerful of Secrets (1968), and several songs that were not released until later. He and the band parted in April 1968 amid speculation of mental illness and his use of psychedelic drugs, beginning a brief solo career the following year with the single "Octopus", followed by albums The Madcap Laughs (1970) and Barrett (1970), recorded with the help of Pink Floyd and the Soft Machine.
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