Following up a hit record is no mean feat for any band, and even under the best of circumstances, Pink Floyd might have found it all but impossible to come back from the massive success of Dark ...

Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Part IV (8:42) As if to underline the theme of absence on Wish You Were Here ... Barrett – in the album’s mournful sign-off, invoking a melody line from their Syd ...

Barrett showed up to the studio as Pink Floyd recorded “Shine on You Crazy Diamond,” the band’s epic tribute to their erstwhile founder from Wish You Were Here. That wasn’t the first time ...

Members Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason, and David Gilmour created music that stood out. Their sound shaped what rock music would become in later years. Their album The Dark ...

Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett ... Then while the band was recording its Wish You Were Here album, Barrett somehow appeared in the ...

Using the broadest brush strokes, Pink Floyd became the UK’s first major psychedelic band thanks to their visionary leader Syd Barrett ... like a ghost. Wish You Were Here was one album hugely ...

On June 5, 1975, Pink Floyd was near the end of recording their 1975 album Wish You Were Here at Abbey Road Studios ... and guitarist Syd Barrett, who had been fairly reclusive for several ...

The first feature-length documentary on Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett Have You ... immortalized with “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” off 1975’s Wish You Were Here – and the new documentary ...

Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett went away for a long ... He Was Like A Diamond Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here contains a tribute to ...

But the most famous story about Wish You Were Here is a more troubling one. On a late spring day in June 1975, Barrett wandered into the recording studio, physically transformed, eyes vacant ...

who created iconic Pink Floyd covers like The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Where Here. Thorgerson died in 2013. “Would anyone care about the story of Syd Barrett if Pink Floyd hadn’t ...