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Syd Barrett

Also known as Roger Keith Barrett

British musician (1946–2006)

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Syd Barrett (1946–2006) was a British guitarist, singer, poet, and singer-songwriter. Born in Cambridge, he was a member of the bands Pink Floyd and Stars. His musical work spanned genres including rock, psychedelic rock, psychedelic folk, and experimental rock. He played the guitar, banjo, ukulele, and mandolin.

Barrett was educated at Anglia Ruskin University and Camberwell College of Arts. He began his professional work period in 1964. His recordings were released on EMI, Capitol Records, and Harvest. He died of pancreatic cancer and diabetes in Cambridge.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 1

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Opel

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Acting · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

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…

Known for

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 — Self2016
Pink Floyd : The Early Years 1965-1972 — Self2016
Pink Floyd: Video Anthology Vol 1 — himself2014
Pink Floyd: Video Anthology Vol 2 — himself2014
Pink Floyd: Whatever Happened to Pink Floyd? The Strange Case of Waters and Gilmour — Self2011

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1946
Active to: 2006

britishenglishfolkpsychedelic folkpsychedelic rockrock

Discography

Member of

Pink Floyd1965–1968

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 724,906
Total plays: 14,390,007

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Haploview: analysis and visualization of LD and haplotype maps
· 2004 · cited 12,367x
The Determination of Pore Volume and Area Distributions in Porous Substances. I. Computations from Nitrogen Isotherms
· 1951 · cited 11,969x
NCBI GEO: archive for functional genomics data sets—update
· 2012 · cited 8,419x
Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
· 2007 · cited 7,930x
Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells for Sustained Remissions in Leukemia
· 2014 · cited 4,869x

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Music

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Quotes

“I'm full of dust and guitars…”
“I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.”
“And what exactly is a dream, and what exactly is a joke?”
“It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here, and I'm most obliged to you for making it clear that I'm not here.”
“Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter…I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done…But it didn't transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort of places with the lights and that, the fact that the group was getting bigger and bigger.”
“That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.”

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Works in European collections

4 objects attributed to Syd Barrett, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Historia de los reinados de Nerva y Trajano

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Encyclopedic overview

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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Syd Barrett