Warren Dosanjh, a childhood friend of Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett who went on to become his first manager, has died at the ...

When asked about why he wanted to commemorate Syd Barrett, Mr Taylor said: "Pink Floyd came out of Cambridge but there is very little about them in the city. We think it's time to celebrate them ...

2. He Became Syd Syd Barrett was born Roger Keith Barrett in Cambridge, England on January 6, 1946. As a teenager, Barrett gained the nickname "Syd"—and also a taste for collecting instruments.

“In 1972, Lou had a band called The Tots and we went to every gig south of Cambridge ... my mid-Atlantic accent people compared me to Syd Barrett. Really, we’re influenced by everything ...

"The" Pink Floyd (as they were initially known) recorded their debut single with producer Joe Boyd and was written by original frontman Syd Barrett about a weird inhabitant of his native Cambridge ...

“In 1972, Lou had a band called The Tots and we went to every gig south of Cambridge. Eventually they started talking ... So, once I’d lost my mid-Atlantic accent people compared me to Syd Barrett.

As a kind of a parallel education system for adolescent non-conformists, art schools offered a path into music too, one followed by numerous contemporaries, such as John Lennon, Keith Richards, Eric ...

“I think Syd was with a group of people who firmly believed ‘take loads of acid and you’ll see the truth’ and all that stuff,” the band’s keyboard player Richard Wright said of his old bandmate. When ...

It's been a year since Sammy Hagar crashed the stage at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auto auction with Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony to join Red Voodoo in reminding car enthusiasts that ...

As is common now, the supposed “conservative court” did not vote as a bloc, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining the three liberal justices. Democrats have ...