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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Genial que sigan recordando a Syd Gran guitarrista, compositor,cantante , poeta y creador de la banda Pink Floyd fué un gran genio de la música del Rock mundial saludos para todos ustedes amigos vale 🇨🇱👍🎸🍷⚽
RIP Syd sorely missed
Kind and thoughtful words from David
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Syd Barrett's handwritten Pink Floyd warning: "Too much of Roger"
faroutmagazine.co.uk
Syd Barrett felt the kind of casual exasperation felt by any young man sharing tight quarters with an ambitious friend, who also happens to be your bandmate.Comment on Facebook
Is he referring to Roger Waters, or himself, Roger Barrett?
too much of roger that uncle???
'icy Waters underground'...
maybe he means the verb- to roger
He knew
There was an article supposedly written by a former neighbor of Syd’s in Cambridge who said that during the 80’s when Waters and Floyd were having their legal battles over the use of the Pink Floyd name, Syd could often be heard bitterly yelling profanities from his house, specifically naming Roger Waters. I don’t know if it’s true or not, but if so it adds a very sad, human element to Syd’s breakdown and withdrawal from the music scene.
Of course the article doesn't address that Syd's actual first name was Roger too, and he may have been talking about himself in that letter. The quoted sentence works both ways.
Syd sigue estando presente hasta hoy en día y siempre se recuerda por su trabajo qué es la música del Rock,un gran guitarrista, compositor, cantante, escritor de muchas letras de cada tema y lo más grande que fundo la gran banda Pink Floyd fuiste un gran genio de la música del Rock sigue volando alto loco diamante 💎 saludos y gracias por todo vale 🇨🇱👍🎸🍷⚽
This article really does a rather poor job at shredding light at it, but if you hold up the story of Syd, both the actual story, and what not least Waters has been eager to tell, the story of Waters, the story of Pink Floyd, the making of The Madcap Laughs (most obviously holding up Jenners production against Waters and Gilmours), and what Waters and Gilmour respectively has later stated about all this, if you hold all this information up against each other, it really does have a very valid point.
syd barrett was livid with waters ...he had almost acheived anonymity until RW started to write about and mention him in interviews
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Clickbait
Yeah he can be a bit much
With the benefit of 60 years of the author's hindsight that is! What cheap sensationalism. Talk about reading too much into and projecting too much out of a letter to his girlfriend.
Bull!
Yeah but there's no bloody diary for us to see. Clickbait! Damn, we knew he disliked RW in the end, this is nothing new. I want to see that diary, did I ADHD out and miss a link?? Oh please tell me! 🫣
Once Roger Waters said Black Sabbath sucked, I thought he was a POS. That means piece of shit
"one day he'll become an unrepentant putin apologist"
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