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| Born | January 6, 1946 |
| Hometown | Cambridge, England |
| Net worth | $5 million |
| Height | 5'11" (1.80m) |
| Parents | Max Barrett , Winifred Barrett |
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Pink Floyd ‘set to make £400 million’ from the sale of their back catalogue
- The deal will include the bands’ songs and master copy recordings
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The Flying Pig: the fight to save the pub where Pink Floyd were born
In the early 1960s, there was a band from Cambridge named The Redcaps. Originally a skiffle group, they moved towards the more exciting rock ’n’ roll sounds coming from America – their name was even a nod to ‘Be-Bop-a-Lula’ singer Gene Vincent’s band, The Blue Caps – before signing to Decca Records and in 1962 releasing a single, ‘Stormy Evening’. It’s a good slice of early-1960s pop, if a somewhat lost one.
- EntertainmentThe Guardian
Hey teacher … how Syd Barrett’s artistic genius flowered at school
Hey teacher … how Syd Barrett’s artistic genius flowered at schoolAn early still life painting by the Pink Floyd founder will be sold at auction Syd Barrett, third from left, was a co-founder and the original frontman of Pink Floyd. Photograph: Chris Walter/WireImage
- EntertainmentThe Telegraph
Duggie Fields, hard-working painter at the heart of the 1970s fashion scene who shared a flat with Syd Barrett – obituary
Duggie Fields, who has died aged 75, was an artist known as much for his dandyish and eccentric sartorial style – and the fact that he once shared a flat with Syd Barrett, the troubled co-founder of Pink Floyd – as for his paintings. Fields came to prominence in the early 1970s and his work – giant canvases featuring flat slabs of bright colours and sharp-edged black cartoonish drawings often featuring figures with lopped-off limbs and other body parts (the Statue of Liberty and Marilyn Monroe w
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Crazy Diamond: how LSD ruined Pink Floyd's fragile genius Syd Barrett
Syd Barrett is the lost boy of British pop. A dazzling original who saw and heard differently to everyone else, he went through the looking glass in search of his psychedelic vision, and never came back. Barrett’s story is a tragic saga of glory and madness, part daring adventure, part cautionary tale. By the age of 23, he had changed music forever – and it had destroyed him. Barrett’s fame principally rests on his role as the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter for Pink Floyd. Although he mad
- EntertainmentThe Guardian
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell review – endless prog rock noodling
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell review – endless prog rock noodlingThe acclaimed author of Cloud Atlas hits a bum note with this hackneyed story of a band in the late 1960s
- EntertainmentSky News
'He thinks he owns Pink Floyd': Roger Waters re-ignites feud with Dave Gilmour after 'website ban'
Roger Waters has reignited a long-running feud with ex-Pink Floyd band-mate Dave Gilmour. The songwriter and bassist, who co-founded Pink Floyd in 1965, says he's been "banned" from the band's website and social media channels by lead guitarist Gilmour. Gilmour joined the progressive rock band in 1967, shortly before the departure of founding member Syd Barrett in 1968.
