Syd Barrett – Official Website | Music, Art, News and Legacy
The late Roger ‘Syd’ Barrett, from Cambridge, was a co-founder of the 1960’s music group Pink Floyd and performed on lead guitar and vocals. He also composed many of their songs. He was responsible for inspiring an entire generation of musicians to develop their own indigenous brand of English rock music. In this year, 2026, Syd would have celebrated his 80th birthday.
Syd was quintessentially English, penning idiosyncratic songs unique in style and tone. He had a hugely attractive personality and with his good looks he was difficult to ignore. He was a quick-witted clown who kept family and friends laughing at his good-natured cheekiness throughout his younger years. Always interested in experimenting with music, he played the recorder, piano, ukulele, Jew’s harp and guitar all to a good standard.
Explore the official Syd Barrett website featuring news, music, artwork, rare media, and insights into the life and legacy of the Pink Floyd founder.
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💎 CRAZY DIAMOND 💎
A one-man show written and performed by Chris Brannick.
Blending the lives of Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett and French poet Arthur Rimbaud, Crazy Diamond explores fame, failure, regret and the price of success—set alongside the music of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd.
📅 27 August — 5.30pm
📅 28 August — 7.30pm
📅 29 & 30 August — 3.30pm
📍 Barons Court Theatre, below The Curtains Up pub, 28a Comeragh Road, London W14 9HR.
A thought-provoking drama from Two Foolish Productions asking: What would you give to be briefly famous—and was it worth it?
Find out more at share.google/6hMiHkVB1MLmOCOjn
"Crazy Diamond weaves a tapestry of distorted reality through the story of Tony Riley, a jobbing pub singer in his early 60s, as he contemplates his own failures in life. He compares his own lack of success to Syd Barrett, the one time lead singer and songwriter for Pink Floyd, and Arthur Rimbaud, the French symbolist poet of the 1870s." ... See MoreSee Less
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As a birthday gift to the resident animation genius Artist on the border we would like to bring you one of his best videos, Baby Lemonade.
And make sure you check out all the other amazing animated lyric videos and more in the Syd Barrett official YouTube channel
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Happy 59th Birthday to The Piper at the Gates of Dawn ... See MoreSee Less
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