The shining star that was Syd Barrett played his last ever gig with Pink Floyd on Jan. 20, 1968 in Hastings. Barrett was the main songwriter, lead singer, guitarist and focal point for the ...

Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett went ... He Had A Meltdown Barrett’s bad perm was now gelled up with gobs and gobs of Brylcreem, but ...

Yet Syd Barrett ... off as he seemed. Barrett, who shunned the limelight for more than 30 years, left almost £1.7million following his death from cancer aged 60 last summer.

As a founder member of Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett wrote songs at once wistful, surreal and quintessentially English. Barrett's increasingly erratic mental state led to him leaving the band in 1968. Syd ...

Pink Floyd legend Syd Barrett has died at his Cambridgeshire home. The singer, 60, who suffered from an LSD-induced breakdown while at the peak of his career in the Sixties, died last Friday (July 7).