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Syd Barrett, A Psychedelic Veteran
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, June 1971
In every great revolution heroes are created who in turn are often killed by the very ideals which they fought for. The "psychedelic revolution" of ...
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Syd Barrett: Confusion and Mr Barrett
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 31 January 1970
SYD BARRETT is a happy, creative if somewhat confused young man, who gave the Pink Floyd hits and headaches when still in the group of ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, March 1970
BRITAIN’S art colleges have turned out a disproportionate number of successful musicians – John Lennon, Jimmy Page and Pete Townshend among them. It was while ...
Report and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 March 1970
IT WOULDN'T BE as far-fetched as it sounds to say that what Bo Diddley was to the rock and roll scene, Pink Floyd were to ...
Profile by Jon Tiven, JAMZ, 1971
SYD BARRETT STARTED playing guitar in primary school in primary school in Cambridge. Later, he went on to Camberwell Schooll of Art in London, where ...
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 27 March 1971
STORIES ABOUT Syd Barrett are legion. That he became overbearingly egotistical, impossible to work with. That he was thrown out of The Pink Floyd. That ...
Syd Barrett: The Madcap returns
Report by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 4 March 1972
SYD BARRETT'S new band, Stars, made their strange debut at Cambridge Corn Exchange last week. Roy Hollingworth reports... ...
Syd Barrett: The Genius Who Almost Was
Profile by Nick Kent, Creem, October 1973
IT WAS only a few months back that a friend told me he'd seen Syd Barrett drifting down Charing Cross Road, looking in guitar shops. ...
A Nice Pair — The Pink Floyd LPs That Failed
Overview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, February 1974
They finally became stars on their ninth album, The Dark Side of the Moon, but they were first led around to the dark side of the psyche ...
The Cracked Ballad of Syd Barrett
Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 13 April 1974
The summer of '67 went up like a psychedelic mushroom-cloud – and some of the fall-out's still coming down. Brian Jones was casually snuffed out, ...
Syd Barrett: Is It Possible, Too, That Syd Has Risen From The Grave?
Report by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 15 November 1975
THOUGH IT'S been something like a year and a half since yours truly and the NME brought you all the harrowing "Saga of Syd" (ne Roger Keith Barrett) ...
Syd Barrett: Careening Through Life...
Retrospective by Kris DiLorenzo, Trouser Press, February 1978
THE COLOR black is not a solitary real color. Nor is it the total absence of color. A black hole in space, in fact, is ...
Syd Barrett: The Tragedy Of Floyd's Founding Genius
Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1983
Early in 1970, Melody Maker asked Roger Waters what he thought of The Madcap Laughs, the debut solo album by his erstwhile Pink Floyd colleague ...
Book Review by Tom Hibbert, Q, February 1991
TWO EXCELLENT ways to become a sort of "cult" rock hero: 1) Be dead; 2) Be bonkers...Actually, come to think of it, the first option ...
Retrospective by Mark Paytress, Record Collector, 1993
IN COMMON with Brian Wilson, Captain Beefheart and Phil Spector, Syd Barrett is a musician whose work is often overshadowed by the myths that surround ...
Pink Floyd: The Division Bell; Syd Barrett: Crazy Diamond
Review by Tom Graves, Rolling Stone, 16 June 1994
IS THIS still really Pink Floyd? That seems to be the question, as it has been since Roger Waters left the band in 1985 to ...
Syd Barrett: The Madcap Laughs/Barrett/Opel
Review by Tom Hibbert, MOJO, July 1994
IN A RECENT EDITION OF A MAGAZINE THAT SHALL REMAIN nameless, some clever-dick had this to say: "No-one likes Syd Barrett except for the kind ...
The Crazy Diamond: Syd Barrett
Retrospective by Cliff Jones, MOJO, September 1996
He was Pink Floyd’s astral voyager who went too far, the star-child of psychedelia who never returned from his journey to inner space. Nearly 30 ...
Julian Palacios: Lost In The Woods
Book Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, July 1998
POSSIBLY THE most quixotically gifted musician of his generation, Roger Syd Barrett – son of the Cambridge flatlands and short-lived London underground starchild – is ...
Syd Barrett: Disappearances Can Be Deceptive
Report by Tom Cox, The Observer, 22 April 2001
THERE ARE PROBABLY better places in the world to go to become invisible than Cambridge, but perhaps not if you are an ex-rock star with ...
Syd Barrett: Wouldn't You Miss Me? The Best Of Syd Barrett
Review by Rob Chapman, MOJO, May 2001
FIRST THINGS first. It's great. The long-lost 'Bob Dylan Blues', I mean. Lampooning the conformity of the folk-protest movement as much as it lampoons its ...
Obituary by Alan Clayson, The Guardian, 11 July 2006
Former lead singer of Pink Floyd whose drug-induced breakdown and reclusive retirement created a musical legend ...
Obituary by Robert Webb, The Independent, 12 July 2006
Reclusive co-founder of Pink Floyd ...
Syd Barrett: Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Obituary by Nick Kent, The Guardian, 12 July 2006
Syd Barrett, the most famous recluse in rock, is dead. It would be easy to mourn the founder of Pink Floyd as a casualty of ...
Obituary by Rob Chapman, MOJO, September 2006
This is the full version of a piece that appeared in Mojo, September 2006 ...
Syd Barrett: A Blind Date With Syd
Retrospective by Chris Welch, Uncut, September 2006
Former Melody Maker writer Chris Welch recalls a brief encounter with Barrett in 1967 ...
Retrospective by Kris Needs, Shindig, October 2016
2016 MARKS 70 years since Syd Barrett entered this world, ten since he left it and an incredible half century since Pink Floyd played their ...
Retrospective by Kris Needs, Shindig, November 2016
LAST MONTH WE looked at Syd's childhood and the birth of Pink Floyd up to releasing 'Arnold Layne'. ...
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