After he left Pink Floyd, nobody was quite sure what to make of where Syd Barrett would go next. The resulting album tells us ...

Pink Floyd decidedly left Syd Barrett behind in 1968 en route to a show at Southampton University after joking about not picking him up.

Syd Barrett in 1967, his face lit by psychedelic lights. In summer 1975, Pink Floyd were struggling with ninth album Wish You Were Here.

Pigs will fly, as the old saying goes, before feuding musicians Roger Waters and David Gilmour reunite to make a new Pink ...

Roger Waters and David Gilmour’s bitter feud had devastating consequences for Pink Floyd, shaping the band’s history and ...

The earliest known painting by Pink Floyd founding member, the late Syd Barrett, is going under auction later this month. The painting, a pastel and watercolour work entitled Dried Flowers (which ...

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.

Syd Barrett once reviewed “A Little Piece Of Leather” by Gene Latter back in 1967, and it’s clear that it was one of his favorites. He noted that it was a great piece of work to come out of ...

This legendary 1967 tune comes from Pink Floyd’s debut album, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. The album would be the only Pink Floyd release to be led by Syd Barrett, and the whole of the ...

Specifically, these are from Barrett’s bedroom at the time in London’s Wetherby Mansions, and he painted the boards himself with help from Evelyn Rose, who appeared nude on the back cover.

It will be available through New Modern on October 9. The British pop group Pink Floyd, (l to r) Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett and Richard Wright.