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.
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On this day in 1967, See Emily Play was released.
Written by Syd Barrett, it became Pink Floyd's first hit single and remains one of the defining songs of the psychedelic era.
Still sounding wonderfully unique nearly 60 years later.
Have a listen to this long lost performance of the song on Top Of The Pops
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Like these phrases just happen , the older I have gotten the more I realize the costs of a phrase or three ✌️😎
Sans Syd Barett, je n’aurais écouté Pink Floyd que bien plus tard et peut être seulement à partir de Dark Side, voire the Wall. Je ne les aurais jamais classé dans les groupes de rock progressif.
I have the single on Tower Records.
Incidentally a small amount of 'see emily play' copies were released by e.m.i. nigeria on the columbia label in june 1967..rather amusingly producer norman smith's name is printed in error as morman smith on the A side..perhaps pink floys rarest record-record collector magazine mentioned it many moons ago!..i have a copy of it but have not come across any other surviving discs
One of my early era favs ❤️ Rest easy Syd - thank you for creating The Pink Floyd ❤️
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This wasn't pink floyds 1st hit single..'arnold layne ' was which got to number 20 in the u.k. charts in april 1967
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Remembering David Bowie & David Gilmour's 2006 Tribute To Pink Floyd Founder Syd Barrett
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In honor of the show's 20th anniversary, look back at when David Bowie joined David Gilmour for a tribute to Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett.Comment on Facebook
Saludos gracias por la foto se guarda para la colección de la banda Pink Floyd de mi personal vale 🇨🇱👍🎸
I’m getting the word “nonce”
Two girly man idiots... Sid would not have liked it
Today marks the 55th anniversary of Relics by Pink Floyd — a strange and brilliant collection that captured the band’s early psychedelic years in all their eccentric glory.
And of course… that unforgettable cover art by Nick Mason.
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Paintbox. The b-sides on this were a revelation
See Emily Play is my favourite. I named my daughter after it.
Careful with that axe Eugene, Remember a day and Biding my time
I picked up an Australian vinyl copy with a different cover the other week.Paid £40 for it, it jumps on Bike ‘I’ve got a bike’ I’ve got a bike…. until you give it a tap.Sometimes I just leave it for a bit 🚲 😆
Julia dream morphing into careful with that axe.
My first PF album. A classmate brought a copy to my high school journalism class and played it. First song I heard was Interstellar Overdrive. I was hooked immediately.
The Nile song . I used to be in a band that did a cover of this in the 90s .
All of this album is a theatrical psychedelic mind piece . Remarkable as it wasn’t like the Beatles . It wasn’t like American psychedelia it has a law of its own . Ahhhhh woooooo
Astronomy Domine?! is not even on the album 🤦🏻♂️ lol. But my favourite is Careful with that axe, Eugene 🪓
Julia Dream… I still think it’s one of the most sinister songs ever…
PIE WITHOUT THE CRUST!!
My first Floyd album. I loved "See Emily play" and, I have to say, even if Roger wrote it, "Julia Dream". But thanks God, he didn't sing it himself.
Interstellar Overdrive. It was the first time I'd heard music free of tempo, rhythm, conventional melody and harmony and it blew my 13 year old mind.
We play Arnold Layne and See Emily Play and they always get a great reception. We've played Bike too, which is beautifully insane!
Remenber a day , anything written by Rick Wright who represented the sound of Pink Floyd ! NO hammering basses please ! !!
I've got it here. Original. Julia dream, Arnold Layne, Careful with that axe ect. ......
And just think, at time possibly practically no one was listening to music from 55 years before that point in time.
Astronomy Domine" is not on Relics.
Includes one of the greatest songs ever recorded by anyone - Bike.
CIRRUS MINOR! (Sorry for shouting but no one seems to name it)
Mon 1er disque de Pink Floyd. Le premier jalon dans mon parcours dans le monde halluciné de Syd...
Cued this up today- synchronicity baby
CAREFUL WITH THAT AXE EUGENE 😵🎙🏛🏛☀️
This “ad” played bits of a few different songs. Some of which are not on Relics. I love the whole album. A song that was on this ad but not on Relics is The Narrow Way and that is one of my very favorites too.
Pure magic to my 22 year old self in 1990.
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