Posted on 07/11/2006 7:07:40 AM PDT by ByDesign
Syd Barrett dies aged 60
Audrey Gillan Tuesday July 11, 2006 Guardian Unlimited
Syd Barrett, the former lead singer of Pink Floyd and one of the key figures of the 60s, has died at the Cambridgeshire home to which he retreated as a recluse more than 30 years ago. The Guardian has learned that the singer, 60, who suffered from a psychedelic-drug induced breakdown while at the peak of his career, died last Friday from complications related to diabetes.
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Syd's been gone for a very long time.
He's comfortably numb.......
He's now on the Dark side of the Moon..........
The lunatic is on the grass...
"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."
RIP Syd
Green cheese, I suppose........
A few years ago I saw an interesting documentary about how much of Pink Floyd's material is really about their former lead singer. He left the band in order to continue his experiments with drugs. He was young, handsome, famous -- and threw it all away to waste his life with drugs. Yet another victim of the drug culture.
My wife has a couple of his solo albums. Opel and Barret I think.
Have you heard Pink Floyds music from the Syd days?!?! horrible horrible incoherent abstract crap.... David Gilmour made Pink Floyd what it is today... If Syd did not go psycho and leave and Gilmour never replaced him, Pink Floyd would have never made music past the 60's.
Indeed.
"He left the band in order to continue his experiments with drugs"
If by left to experiment with drugs you mean kicked out of band cause he was too crazy to play guitar and sing then you're right.
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is a great album.
Time to play "Wish You Were Here".A lot of Floyds music was about Syd and his struggle with schizophrenia.The drugs certainly didn't help.
From what I've read, he was going insane anyway, LSD (his drug of choice) just sped up the process.
I was glad to read, the members of Pink Floyd made sure he was VERY well taken care of. There was an article a couple years back who got pictures of him riding his bike in the small town he lived in, he was living alone, painting, writing, and completely shunned the press and the fans. They said he was writing a history of art...
He was a strange, enigmatic man, who inspired and intrigued. RIP Syd, there will never be another.
The Dark Side of the Moon was play on words. Lunatic, being a reference to a person being insane, and a moon reference and the Dark or sinister side of insanity..........
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