You will no doubt have read the obituaries for Syd Barrett, who died of cancer on July 7 2006. You will have read about how he was the original guiding light of Pink Floyd, who wrote, sang and played ...

A love of Syd Barrett's music was actually one of the few things that the always-fractious Reid brothers agreed upon during their teenage years. And, in a roundabout fashion, it was this shared ...

Syd Barrett was the guiding light of the original Pink Floyd — the band’s singer, primary songwriter and guitarist from their first day until their psychedelia-defining 1967 debut album, “Piper at the ...

January 6, 2026, marks what would’ve been Syd Barrett’s 80th birthday. The founding Pink Floyd frontman, who only appeared on the band’s first two albums, died on July 7, 2006, of pancreatic cancer.

In the swirling chaos of 1960s London, a young art student named Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett converted a blues cover band into something entirely unprecedented. Barrett didn't just play guitar for Pink ...

Pink Floyd delivered some of the most memorable albums of the classic rock era. These four songs served as outstanding album-openers.

Pink Floyd fans looking to own a bit of related history may be interested to learn that the orange and blue floorboards found in the room where Syd Barrett was photographed for the cover of his 1968 ...

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 ...