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Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett 1946-2006
‘He was probably the hippest thing out there’ …
Mick Rock’s shot of Syd Barrett.
Mick Rock’s best photograph: Syd Barrett on a Pontiac Parisienne G Thursday 12 February 2015 08.01 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/feb/12/
Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett 1946-2006
erratically brilliant songwriter and singer who created the psychedelic rock of Pink Floyd only to leave the band in 1968 with mental problems
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With Pink Floyd, and on two haunting solo albums, Mr. Barrett became a touchstone for experimental pop musicians.
He was also renowned both as an LSD casualty and as a symbol of how close creativity can be to madness.
Mr. Barrett wrote most of the songs on Pink Floyd’s debut album, “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.”
In Mr. Barrett’s songs like “Astronomy Domine,” whimsy and wordplay merged with a playful sense of structure and sound.
“Let’s try it another way You’ll lose your mind and play,” he wrote in “See Emily Play.”
He also helped to conceive the band’s performances as spectacles.
“We have only just started to scrape the surface of effects and ideas of lights and music combined,” Mr. Barrett told the trade newspaper Melody Maker in 1967.
But under the pressures of rock stardom and after frequent use of LSD, Mr. Barrett had a breakdown in the late 1960’s and spent most of his life as a recluse.
Pink Floyd, with its bassist, Roger Waters, taking over as songwriter, went on to become a multimillion-selling arena-rock band in the 1970’s.
Pink Floyd sang about Mr. Barrett in one of its hits, “Shine On You Crazy Diamond.” http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/arts/music/12barrett.html
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