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The celebrity world is full of tragic tales, and the music industry seems to have more than its fair share of them. Many fans are left mourning the lives of artists who were gone too soon or whose ...

Syd Barrett, who walked Pink Floyd through the gates of dawn before mental illness forced his departure from the then-rising group, will be the focus of an upcoming documentary featuring new ...

One of the world's premier progressive rock bands unleashed their magnum opus 53 years ago. Yes, that's right -- Pink Floyd's ...

Barrett enjoyed the benefits of Pink Floyd’s success for roughly a year before the band moved on without him. The Mapcap received royalty checks for his early contributions but had nothing to do with ...

Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd is a new documentary that looks at Pink Floyd‘s original frontman, the enigmatic Syd Barrett. The film was co-directed by the late Storm ...

The original Pink Floyd in 1967: Roger Waters, Rick Wright, Nick Mason and Syd Barrett Credit: Photo © Syd Barrett Music Ltd. Though he identified primarily as a ...

London - Syd Barrett, the troubled Pink Floyd co-founder who spent his last years in reclusive anonymity, has died, the band said Tuesday. He was 60. A spokeswoman for the band said Barrett died ...

On May 10, 2007, the members of Pink Floyd united for The Madcap’s Last Laugh, a tribute concert at the Barbican in London, honoring the band’s co-founder Syd Barrett, who died in 2006 at age 60.

Long considered a footnote to casual fans in the story of Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett is finally having his tale told some 55 years after he was unceremoniously pushed out of the band he co-founded with a ...

The story of Syd Barrett that has been told and retold is that he founded Pink Floyd, lost his mind to LSD-induced psychosis, and disappeared into a deliberate and determined obscurity. Of course, no ...