In 1975, Pink Floyd released their pinnacle, certified gold record, Wish You Were Here. Five decades later, the spellbinding set is receiving special attention through the arrival of Shine On You ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images You will no doubt have read the obituaries for Syd Barrett, who died of cancer on July ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Syd Barrett, The Jesus Ands Mary Chain. A love of Syd Barrett's music was actually one of the few things that the always-fractious ...

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 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 ...

He helped create one of rock's greatest bands, but the late Syd Barrett always considered himself a painter before a Pink Floyd founder. Speaking at an exhibition of the troubled musician's canvases ...

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 ...