British musician (1946–2006)
He invented psychedelic rock with Pink Floyd, wrote their first album, then vanished from music entirely at twenty-two — spending the next thirty-eight years painting in a Cambridge house while the band he left became one of the biggest acts on earth.
Roger Keith Barrett co-founded Pink Floyd in 1965 and fronted the band through The Piper at the Gates of Dawn in 1967, writing whimsical, stream-of-consciousness songs and playing guitar with dissonance and feedback that shaped psychedelia. By April 1968 he was gone, amid speculation about mental illness and LSD use, his tenure lasting barely three years. He released two solo albums in 1970 — The Madcap Laughs and Barrett, recorded with help from his former bandmates — then left music altogether in 1974. He spent the rest of his life in Cambridge, painting and gardening, guarding his privacy w…
Sourced, dated quotes from Syd Barrett
Well, I've got a colour telly, and a fridge. I've got some pork chops in the fridge, but the chops keep going off, so I have to keep buying more.
I'm full of dust and guitars…
I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.
That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.
Their choice of material was always very much to do with what they were thinking as architecture students. Rather unexciting people, I would've thought, primarily.
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