Syd Barrett

Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English musician, composer, singer, songwriter and painter. He was a founder member of the band Pink Floyd, and was the lead vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter during the band's psychedelic years, providing major musical and stylistic direction in their early compositions. He is credited with naming the band, but left the group in April 1968 and was briefly hospitalized amid speculation of mental illness exacerbated by drug use.[2]

Barrett was musically active for fewer than ten years. He recorded four singles with Pink Floyd, the debut album (and contributed to the second one), plus several unreleased songs. In 1969, Barrett initiated his solo career when he released the single, "Octopus", taken from his first solo album, The Madcap Laughs (1970). The album was recorded over the course of one year (1968–1969) with five different producers (Peter Jenner, Malcolm Jones, David Gilmour,Roger Waters and Barrett himself). Nearly two months after Madcap was released, Barrett began working on his second and final album, Barrett (produced by Gilmour and featuring contributions from Richard Wright), which was released in late 1970. He then went into self-imposed seclusion lasting until his death in 2006. In 1988, an album of unreleased tracks and outtakes, Opel, was released by EMI with Barrett's approval.

Barrett's innovative guitar work and exploration of experimental techniques, such as using dissonance, distortion and feedback, had an enormous impact on many musicians, from David Bowie to Brian Eno to Jimmy Page. His recordings were also noted for their strongly British-accented vocal delivery. In his post-music life, Barrett continued with painting and dedicated himself to gardening. Biographies began appearing in the 1980s. Pink Floyd wrote and recorded several tributes to him, most notably the 1975 album Wish You Were Here, which included "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", a memorial to Barrett.



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[hide]  *1 Biography  ==Biography[ edit] == ===Early years[ edit] === Syd Barrett was born as Roger Keith Barrett in the English city of Cambridge to a middle-class family living at 60 Glisson Road.[3] [4]  Barrett was the third of five children.[3]  His father, Arthur Max Barrett, was a prominent pathologist<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning3_3-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-blake13_5-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irghd4_6-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  and he was related<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="line-height:1;white-space:nowrap;">[clarification needed]  to Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-blake13_5-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irghd4_6-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  In 1951 his family moved to 183 Hills Road.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning3_3-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irghd3-4_4-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]
 * 1.1 Early years
 * 1.2 Pink Floyd years (1965–68)
 * 1.2.1 London Underground, Blackhill Enterprises and gigs
 * 1.2.2 Releases
 * 1.2.2.1 Tonite Lets All Make Love in London
 * 1.2.2.2 Record deal
 * 1.2.2.3 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
 * 1.3 Departure from Pink Floyd
 * 1.4 Solo years (1968–72)
 * 1.4.1 The Madcap Laughs
 * 1.4.2 Barrett
 * 1.4.3 Performances
 * 1.5 Later years (1972–2006)
 * 1.5.1 Stars and final recordings
 * 1.5.2 Withdrawal to Cambridge
 * 1.5.3 Death and aftermath
 * 2 Legacy
 * 2.1 Wish You Were Here sessions
 * 2.2 Compilations
 * 2.3 Creative impact and technical innovation
 * 2.4 Musical and pop culture influence
 * 2.5 Mental state
 * 3 Discography
 * 4 Filmography
 * 5 See also
 * 6 References
 * 7 Sources
 * 8 External links

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Barrett played piano occasionally, but usually preferred writing and drawing. He got a ukulele at 10, a banjo at 11<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManning20069.E2.80.9310_7-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  and a Hofner acoustic guitar at 14.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-pal001_8-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManning200610_9-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  A year after he got his first acoustic guitar, he bought his first electric guitar and built his own amplifier. One story of how Barrett acquired the nickname "Syd" is that at the age of 14 he was called after an old local Cambridge jazz double bassist,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManning200610_9-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChapman201012_10-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]  Sid "the beat" Barrett, which claims Syd Barrett changed the spelling to differentiate himself from his namesake.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-mas001_11-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]  Another story is that when he was 13, his schoolmates nicknamed him "Syd" after he showed up to a field day at Abington Scout site wearing a flat cap instead of his Scout beret because "Syd" was a "working-class" name.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChapman201011.E2.80.9312_12-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]  He used both names interchangeably for several years. His sister Rosemary stated, "He was never Syd at home. He would never have allowed it."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChapman201012_10-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At one point at Morley Memorial Junior School he was taught by Roger Waters' mother, Mary.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChapman20108_13-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[13]  Later, in 1957, he attended Cambridgeshire High School for Boys<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChapman20109_14-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[14]  (with Waters).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning3_3-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]  His father died of cancer on 11 December 1961,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManning200610_9-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlake200817_15-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[15]  less than a month before Barrett's 16th birthday.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChapman201031_16-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[16]  Also on this day, Barrett had left the entry in his diary for this date blank.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManning200610_9-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  By this time, his brothers and sisters had left home and his mother decided to rent out rooms to lodgers.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlake200817_15-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[15] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChapman201033_17-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[17] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-cambridge-news.co.uk_18-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[18]  Eager to help her son recover from his grief, Barrett's mother encouraged the band in which he played, Geoff Mott and The Mottoes, a band which Barrett formed,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManning200610_9-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  to perform in their front room. Waters and Barrett were childhood friends, and Waters often visited such gigs.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning3_3-5" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManning200610_9-5" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner200522-23_19-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[19]  At one point, Waters even organised a gig, a CND benefit at Friends Meeting House on 11 March 1962,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning3_3-6" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]  but shortly afterwards Jeff Mott joined the Boston Crabs, and the Mottoes broke up.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManning200610_9-6" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In September 1962, Barrett had taken a place at the Cambridge Technical College art department,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irghd40_20-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[20]  where he met David Gilmour.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning5_21-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[21]  During the winter of 1962 and early 1963, The Beatles made an impact on Barrett. For a while Barrett began to play Beatles songs at parties and at picnics. In 1963, Barrett became a Rolling Stones fan and Barrett and then-girlfriend Libby Gausden saw them perform at a village hall in Cambridgeshire.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning5_21-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[21]  It was at this point Barrett started writing songs; one friend recalls hearing "Effervescing Elephant" (later to be recorded on his solo album, Barrett).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManning200611.E2.80.9312_22-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[22]  Also around this time, Barrett and Gilmour occasionally played acoustic gigs together.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning6_23-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[23]  Barrett had played bass guitar with Those Without during the summer of 1963<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning6_23-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[23] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh50_24-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[24]  and both bass and guitar with The Hollerin' Blues the next summer.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning6_23-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[23]  In 1964, Barrett and Gausden saw Bob Dylan perform.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning5_21-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[21]  After this performance, Barrett was inspired to write "Bob Dylan Blues".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh58_25-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[25]  Barrett, now thinking about his future,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning6_23-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[23]  decided to apply for Camberwell College of Arts in London.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irghd45_26-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[26]  Barrett enrolled in the college in the summer of 1964<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning6_23-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[23]  to study painting.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Times_obit_27-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[27] ===Pink Floyd years (1965–68)<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Main article: Pink Floyd<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Starting in 1964, the band that would become Pink Floyd evolved through various line-up and name changes including "The Abdabs",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManning200614_28-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[28] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh52_29-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[29]  "The Screaming Abdabs",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh52_29-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[29]  "Sigma 6",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh52_29-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[29] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlake200838_30-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[30]  and "The Meggadeaths".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh52_29-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[29]  In 1965, Barrett joined them as The Tea Set<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh52_29-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[29] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning9_31-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[31]  (sometimes spelled T-Set).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-blake43_32-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[32]  When they found themselves playing a concert with another band of the same name, Barrett came up with "The Pink Floyd Sound" (also known as "The Pink Floyd Blues Band",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-blake43_32-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[32]  later "The Pink Floyd").<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-36" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[nb 1]  During 1965, they went into a studio for the first time, when a friend of Richard Wright's gave the band free time to record.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-40" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[nb 2] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning9_31-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[31]  In the summer of 1965, Barrett began an affair with Lindsay Corner.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning7_41-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[39]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During this summer Barrett had his first LSD trip in the garden of friend, Dave Gale,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning7_41-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[39] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh76-77_42-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[40]  with Ian Moore and Storm Thorgerson.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-43" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[nb 3] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning7_41-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[39]  In one period of experimentation with LSD, Barrett and another friend, Paul Charrier, ended up naked in the bath, reciting: "No rules, no rules".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning11_44-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[41]  That summer, as a consequence of the continuation of drug use, the band became absorbed in Sant Mat, a Sikh sect. Storm Thorgerson (then living on Earlham Street) and Barrett went to a London hotel to meet the sect's guru; Thorgerson managed to join the sect, while Barrett, however, was deemed too young to join. Thorgerson perceives this as a deeply important event in Barrett's life, as he was intensely upset by the rejection. While living within close proximity of his friends, Barrett decided to write more songs ("Bike" was written around this time).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning10_35-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[35] ====London Underground, Blackhill Enterprises and gigs<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== Main article: Blackhill Enterprises<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">While Pink Floyd began by playing cover versions of American R&B songs,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh73_45-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[42]  by 1966 they had carved out their own style of improvised rock and roll,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlake200845_46-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[43] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh99_47-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[44]  which drew as much from improvised jazz.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh124_48-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[45] After Bob Klose departed from the band, the band's direction changed. However, the change was not instantaneous,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-51" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[nb 4]  with more improvising on the guitars and keyboards.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning10_35-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[35]  Mason reflected, "It always felt to me that most of the ideas were emanating from Syd at the time."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-54" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[nb 5] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning10_35-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[35]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At this time, Barrett's reading reputedly included: Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan, and The I-Ching. During this period, Barrett wrote most of the songs for Pink Floyd's first album, and also songs that would later appear on his solo albums.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning14_52-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[48]  In 1966, a new rock concert venue, the UFO (pronounced as "you-foe"),<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning19_55-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[50]  opened in London and quickly became a haven for British psychedelic music. Pink Floyd, the house band,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh86_49-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[46] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning19_55-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[50] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-56" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[51] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MCLM27_57-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[52]  was its most popular attraction and after making appearances at the rivalRoundhouse,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MCLM27_57-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[52] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning13_58-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[53] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh115_59-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[54]  became the most popular musical group of the so-called "London Underground" psychedelic music scene.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-pal001_8-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">By the end of 1966, Pink Floyd had gained a reliable management team in Andrew King and Peter Jenner.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning16_60-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[55]  Towards the end of October 1966, Pink Floyd, with King and Jenner, set up Blackhill Enterprises, to manage the group's finances. Blackhill was staffed by lodgers Jenner found in his Edbrooke Road house, and among others, Barrett's flatmate, Peter Wynne Wilson (who became road manager, however, since he had more experience in lighting, he was also lighting assistant).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning15_61-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[56]  King and Jenner wanted to prepare some demo recordings for a possible record deal, so at the end of October, they booked a session at Thompson Private Recording Studio,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MCLM27_57-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[52]  in Hemel Hempstead.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-62" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[nb 6] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning15_61-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[56]  King said of the demos: "That was the first time I realised they were going to write all their own material, Syd just turned into a songwriter, it seemed like overnight."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManning200628.E2.80.9329_63-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[57]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">King and Jenner befriended American expatriate Joe Boyd, the promoter of the UFO Club, who was making a name for himself as one of the more important entrepreneurs on the British music scene. The newly hired booking agent, Bryan Morrison, and Boyd had proposed sending in better quality recordings. From Morrison's agency the band played a gig outside London for the first time.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning17_64-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[58]  In November, the band performed the first (of many) strangely named concerts: Philadelic Music for Simian Hominids, a multimedia event arranged by the group's former landlord, Mike Leonard, at Hornsey College of Art.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MCLM27_57-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[52] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning17_64-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[58]  They performed at the Free School<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh95_65-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[59]  for the following two weeks, before performing at the Psychodelphia Versus Ian Smith event at the Roundhouse in December, arranged by the Majority Rule for Rhodesia Campaign, and an Oxfam benefit at the Albert Hall<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MCLM27_57-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[52]  (the band's biggest venue up to this point).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning17_64-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[58] ====Releases<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ====

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Tonite Lets All Make Love in London<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===== Main article: Tonite Lets All Make Love in London<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the beginning of 1967, Barrett was dating Jenny Spires (who would later marry future Stars member, Jack Monck), however, unknown to Barrett, Spires had an affair with Peter Whitehead. Spires convinced Whitehead (who thought the band sounded like "bad Schoenberg") to utilise Pink Floyd in a film about the swinging London scene.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning18_66-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[60]  So at the cost of £80, in January, Whitehead took the band into John Wood's Sound Techniques in Chelsea,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh123_67-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[61]  with Boyd in tow.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning18_66-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[60]  Here, the band recorded a 16-minute version of "Interstellar Overdrive" and another composition, "Nick's Boogie".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning18_66-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[60] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh123_67-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[61]  Whitehead had filmed this recording, which was used in the film, Tonite Let's All Make Love in London<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh123_67-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[61]  and later on the video release of London '66–'67.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning18_66-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[60] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh123_67-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[61]  Whitehead later commented about the band that: "They were just completely welded together, just like a jazz group".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning18_66-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[60]

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Record deal<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Boyd attempted to sign the band with Polydor Records.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh132_53-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[49] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-toby31-32_68-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[62]  However, Morrison had convinced King and Jenner to try to start a bidding war between Polydor and EMI.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-toby31-32_68-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[62]  In late January, Boyd produced a recording session for the group,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh132_53-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[49] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning16_60-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[55]  with them returning to Sound Techniques in Chelsea again.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-70" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[nb 7] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh132_53-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[49] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MCLM28_71-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[64]  After the aforementioned bidding war idea was finished, Pink Floyd signed with EMI. Unusually for the time the deal included recording an album, which meant the band had unlimited studio time at EMI Studios, in return for a smaller royalty percentage. The band then attempted to re-record "Arnold Layne", however, the Boyd version from January was released instead.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning20_69-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[63]

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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===== Main article: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The band's first studio album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, was recorded intermittently between February and July 1967 in Studio 3 at Abbey Road Studios, and produced by former Beatles engineerNorman Smith.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManning200634_72-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[65]  At the same time, The Beatles were recording "Lovely Rita" for their album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, in Studio 2. By the time the album was released on 4 August, "Arnold Layne" (which was released months earlier, on 11 March) had reached number 20 on the British singles charts<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-officialcharts1_73-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[66]  (despite being banned by Radio London)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning20_69-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[63] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh141-142_74-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[67]  and the follow-up single, "See Emily Play", had done even better, peaking at number 6.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-officialcharts1_73-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[66]  The album was successful in the UK, hitting number 6 on the British album charts.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-officialcharts1_73-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[66]  Their first three singles (including their third "Apples and Oranges"), were written by Barrett, who also was the principal visionary/author of their critically acclaimed 1967 debut album. Of the eleven songs on Piper, Barrett wrote eight and co-wrote another two.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-75" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[68] ===Departure from Pink Floyd<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Through late 1967 and early 1968, Barrett's behaviour became increasingly erratic and unpredictable, partly as a consequence of his reported heavy use of psychedelic drugs, most prominently LSD.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-pal001_8-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]  Many reports described him on stage, strumming one chord through the entire concert, or not playing at all.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Econ_76-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[69]  At a show at The Fillmore in San Francisco, during a performance of "Interstellar Overdrive", Barrett slowly detuned his guitar. The audience seemed to enjoy such antics, unaware of the rest of the band's consternation. Interviewed on Pat Boone's show during this tour, Syd's reply to Boone's questions was a "blank and totally mute stare," according to Nick Mason, "Syd wasn't into moving his lips that day." Barrett exhibited similar behaviour during the band's first appearance on Dick Clark's popular TV showAmerican Bandstand.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner200513_77-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[70]  Although surviving footage of this appearance shows Barrett miming his parts of the song competently,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChapman2010199_78-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[71]  during a group interview afterwards, when asked two questions by Clark, Barrett's answers were terse, almost to the point of rudeness (though, as Clark admitted, they had been flying non-stop from London to Los Angeles). During this time, Barrett would often forget to bring his guitar to sessions, damage equipment and occasionally was unable to hold his plectrum.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWillis2002102_79-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[72]  Before a performance in late 1967, Barrett reportedly crushed Mandrax tranquilliser tablets and an entire tube ofBrylcreem into his hair, which subsequently melted down his face under the heat of the stage lighting,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManning200642_80-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[73]  making him look like "a guttered candle".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Schaffner13-14_81-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[74]  Nick Mason later disputed the Mandrax portion of this story, stating that "Syd would never waste good mandies".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-tw009_82-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[75]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During their UK tour with Jimi Hendrix in November 1967, guitarist David O'List from The Nice was called in to substitute for Barrett on several occasions when he was unable to perform or failed to appear.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mason95-105_83-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[76]  And sometime around Christmas, David Gilmour (Barrett's old school friend) was asked to join the band as a second guitarist to cover for Barrett, whose erratic behaviour prevented him from performing. For a handful of shows Gilmour played and sang while Barrett wandered around on stage, occasionally deciding to join in playing. The other band members soon grew tired of Barrett's antics and, on 26 January 1968, when Waters was driving on the way to a show at Southampton University, the band elected not to pick Barrett up: one person in the car said, "Shall we pick Syd up?" and another said, "Let's not bother."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-84" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[77] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlake2008112_85-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[78] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-toby45_86-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[79] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Schaffner14-15_87-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[80]  As Barrett had, up until then, written the bulk of the band's material, the initial plan was to keep him in the group as a non-touring member—as The Beach Boys had done withBrian Wilson—but this soon proved to be impractical.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-toby45_86-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[79] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner2005265_88-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[81] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Schaffner14_89-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[82]  Gilmour subsequently became a full-time member of the band from that point onward.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">According to Roger Waters, Barrett came into what was to be their last practice session with a new song he had dubbed "Have You Got It Yet?". The song seemed simple enough when he first presented it, but it soon became impossibly difficult to learn and they eventually realised that while they were practising it, Barrett kept changing the arrangement.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-toby45_86-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[79] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Schaffner14_89-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[82]  He would then play it again, with the arbitrary changes, and sing "Have you got it yet?". Eventually they realised they never would and that they were simply bearing the brunt of Barrett's idiosyncratic sense of humour.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-tp001_90-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[83]  Waters had called it "a real act of mad genius".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-toby45_86-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[79] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Schaffner14_89-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[82]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Barrett did not contribute material to the band after A Saucerful of Secrets was released in 1968. Of the songs he wrote for Pink Floyd after The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, only one ("Jugband Blues") made it to the band's second album; one ("Apples and Oranges") became a less-than-successful single, and two others ("Scream Thy Last Scream" and "Vegetable Man") were never officially released. Barrett supposedly spent time outside the recording studio, in the reception area,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Schaffner15_91-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[84]  waiting to be invited in. He also showed up to a few gigs and glared at Gilmour. Barrett played slide guitar on "Remember a Day" (which had been first attempted during the Piper sessions), and also played on "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-92" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[85]  On 6 April 1968, the group officially announced Barrett was no longer a member,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Schaffner15_91-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[84]  the same day the band's contract with Blackhill Enterprises was terminated.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-toby45_86-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[79] ===Solo years (1968–72)<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After leaving Pink Floyd, Barrett left the public eye. At the behest of EMI and Harvest Records, he embarked on a brief solo career, releasing two solo albums, The Madcap Laughs and Barrett (both 1970), and a single, "Octopus". Some songs, "Terrapin", "Maisie" and "Bob Dylan Blues", reflected Barrett's early interest in the blues.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManning20069_93-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[86] ====The Madcap Laughs<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== Main article: The Madcap Laughs<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After Barrett left Pink Floyd, Jenner followed suit. He led Barrett into EMI Studios to record some tracks<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MCLM3_94-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[87]  in May that would later be released on Barrett's first solo album, The Madcap Laughs. However, Jenner said: "I had seriously underestimated the difficulties of working with him".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManning200670_95-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[88]  By the sessions of June and July, most of the tracks were in better shape; however, shortly after the July sessions, Barrett broke up with girlfriend Lindsay Corner and went on a drive around Britain in his Mini, ending up in psychiatric care in Cambridge.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning22_96-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[89]  During New Year 1969, a somewhat recovered Barrett had taken up tenancy in a flat on Egerton Gardens, Earls Court, London, with artist Duggie Fields.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning22_96-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[89] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-97" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[90]  Here, Barrett's flat was so close to that of Gilmour's that Gilmour could look right into Barrett's kitchen.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning22_96-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[89]  Deciding to return to music, Barrett contacted EMI and was passed to Malcolm Jones, the then-head of EMI's new prog rock label, Harvest<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MCLM3_94-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[87]  (after Norman Smith<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MCLM4_98-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[91]  and Jenner declined to produce Barrett's record,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MCLM4_98-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[91]  Jones produced it).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning22_96-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[89] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MCLM4_98-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[91]  Barrett wanted to recover the Jenner-produced sessions recordings; several of the tracks were improved upon.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MCLM3-4_99-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[92]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Jones-produced sessions started in April 1969 at EMI Studios. After the first of these sessions, Barrett brought in friends to help out: Humble Pie drummer, Jerry Shirley and Jokers Wild (Gilmour's old band) drummer, Willie Wilson. For the sessions, Gilmour played bass. Talking to Barrett wasn't easy, said Jones: "It was a case of following him, not playing with him. They were seeing and then playing so they were always a note behind".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning22_96-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[89]  A few tracks on the album feature overdubs by members of the band Soft Machine.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning13_58-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[53]  During this time, Barrett also played guitar on the sessions for Soft Machine founder Kevin Ayers' debut LP Joy of a Toy,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-100" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[93]  although his performance on "Religious Experience" (later titled "Singing a Song in the Morning") was not released until the album was reissued in 2003.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning13_58-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[53] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-palacios362_101-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[94] One time, Barrett had told his flatmate that he was going off "for an afternoon drive". However, he followed Pink Floyd to Ibiza (according to legend, he skipped check-ins and customs, ran onto the runway and attempted to flag down a jet). One of his friends, J. Ryan Eaves, bass player for the short-lived but influential Manchester band "York's Ensemble", later spotted him on a beach wearing messed-up clothes and with a carrier bag full of money. At this point, during the trip, Barrett had asked Gilmour for his help in the recording sessions.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning22_96-5" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[89]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After two of the Gilmour/Waters-produced sessions,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEParker2001iv_102-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[95]  they remade one track from the Soft Machine overdubs and recorded three tracks. These sessions came to a minor halt when Gilmour and Waters were mixing Pink Floyd's newly recorded album, Ummagumma, to Barrett's dismay. However, through the end of July, they managed to record three more tracks. The problem with the recording was that the songs were recorded as Barrett played them "live" in studio. On the released versions a number of them have false starts and commentaries from Barrett.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning22_96-6" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[89]  Despite the track being closer to complete and better produced, Gilmour and Waters left the Jones-produced track "Opel" off Madcap.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManning200671.E2.80.9372_103-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[96]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Gilmour, on the sessions for The Madcap Laughs: <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">"[Sessions] were pretty tortuous and very rushed. We had very little time, particularly with The Madcap Laughs. Syd was very difficult, we got that very frustrated feeling: Look, it's your fucking career, mate. Why don't you get your finger out and do something? The guy was in trouble, and was a close friend for many years before then, so it really was the least one could do."

— David Gilmour, <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-104" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[97] <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Upon the album's release in January 1970, Malcolm Jones was shocked by the substandard musicianship on the Gilmour and Waters-produced songs: "I felt angry. It's like dirty linen in public and very unnecessary and unkind". Gilmour said: "Perhaps we were trying to show what Syd was really like. But perhaps we were trying to punish him". Waters was more positive: "Syd is a genius".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning23_105-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[98] <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">"It's quite nice but I'd be very surprised if it did anything if I were to drop dead. I don't think it would stand as my last statement." —Barrett, <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning23_105-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[98] ====Barrett<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ====

Main article: Barrett (album)<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The second album, Barrett, was recorded more sporadically than the first,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-106" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[99]  with sessions taking place between February and July 1970.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning23_105-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[98] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-B2010_1-2_107-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[100]  The album was produced by David Gilmour,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning23_105-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[98] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Manning_2006_61_108-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[101]  and featured Gilmour on bass guitar, Richard Wright on keyboard and Humble Pie drummer Jerry Shirley. The first two songs attempted were for Barrett to play and/or sing to an existing backing track. However, Gilmour thought they were losing the "Barrett-ness". One track ("Rats") was originally recorded with Barrett on his own. That would later be overdubbed by musicians, despite the changing tempos. Shirley said of Barrett's playing: "He would never play the same tune twice. Sometimes Syd couldn't play anything that made sense; other times what he'd play was absolute magic." At times Barrett would say: "Perhaps we could make the middle darker and maybe the end a bit middle afternoonish. At the moment it's too windy and icy".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning23_105-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[98]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">These sessions were happening while Pink Floyd had just begun to work on Atom Heart Mother. On various occasions, Barrett went to "spy" on the band as they recorded their album.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning23_105-5" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[98]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Wright said of the Barrett sessions: <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Doing Syd's record was interesting, but extremely difficult. Dave [Gilmour] and Roger did the first one (The Madcap Laughs) and Dave and myself did the second one. But by then it was just trying to help Syd any way we could, rather than worrying about getting the best guitar sound. You could forget about that! It was just going into the studio and trying to get him to sing. —Richard Wright, <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-109" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[102] ====Performances<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Despite the numerous recording dates for his solo albums, Barrett undertook very little musical activity between 1968 and 1972 outside the studio. On 24 February 1970, he appeared on John Peel's BBCradio programme Top Gear<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning23_105-6" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[98] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MCLM13_110-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[103]  playing five songs—only one of which had been previously released. Three would be re-recorded for the Barrett album, while the song "Two of a Kind" was a one-off performance (possibly written by Richard Wright).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-113" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[nb 8]  Barrett was accompanied on this session by Gilmour and Shirley who played bass and percussion,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning23_105-7" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[98]  respectively.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-114" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[nb 9]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Gilmour and Shirley also backed Barrett for his one and only live concert during this period.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Manning_2006_61_108-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[101]  The gig took place on 6 June 1970 at the Olympia Exhibition Hall as part of a Music and Fashion Festival.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh270_115-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[106] The trio performed four songs,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Manning_2006_61_108-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[101]  "Terrapin", "Gigolo Aunt", "Effervescing Elephant" and "Octopus". Poor mixing left the vocals barely audible until part-way through the last number.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh270_115-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[106]  At the end of the fourth song, Barrett unexpectedly but politely put down his guitar and walked off the stage.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Manning_2006_61_108-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[101]  The performance has been bootlegged.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh270_115-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[106] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-116" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[107]  Barrett made one last appearance on BBC Radio, recording three songs at their studios on 16 February 1971. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-117" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[nb 10]  All three came from the Barrett album. After this session, he took a hiatus from his music career that lasted more than a year, although in an extensive interview with Mick Rock and Rolling Stone in December, he discussed himself at length, showed off his new 12-string guitar, talked about touring with Jimi Hendrix and stated that he was frustrated in terms of his musical work because of his inability to find anyone good to play with.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rs009_118-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[108] ===Later years (1972–2006)<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ====Stars and final recordings<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== See also: Stars (British band)<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In February 1972, after a few guest spots in Cambridge with ex-Pink Fairies member Twink on drums and Jack Monck on bass using the name The Last Minute Put Together Boogie Band (backing visiting blues musician Eddie "Guitar" Burns and also featuring Henry Cow guitarist Fred Frith), the trio formed a short-lived band called Stars.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning26_119-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[109]  Though they were initially well received at gigs in the Dandelion coffee bar and the town's Market Square, one of their gigs at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irghdxv_120-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[110]  with the MC5 proved to be disastrous.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning24_121-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[111]  A few days after this final show, Twink recalled that Barrett stopped him on the street, showed him a scathing review of the gig they had played, and quit on the spot,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning24_121-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[111]  despite having played at least one subsequent gig at the same venue supporting Nektar.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-tw009_82-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[75]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Free from his EMI contract on 9 May 1972, Barrett signed a document that ended his association with Pink Floyd, and any financial interest in future recordings.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DarkG400_122-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[112]  Barrett attended an informal jazz and poetry performance by Pete Brown and former Cream bassist Jack Bruce in October 1973. Brown arrived at the show late, and saw that Bruce was already onstage, along with "a guitarist I vaguely recognised", playing the Horace Silver tune "Doodlin'". Later in the show, Brown read out a poem, which he dedicated to Syd, because, "he's here in Cambridge, and he's one of the best songwriters in the country" when, to his surprise, the guitar player from earlier in the show stood up and said, "No I'm not".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPalacios2010401_123-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[113]  By the end of 1973, Barrett had returned to live in London, staying at various hotels and, in December of that year, settling in at Chelsea Cloisters. He had little contact with others, apart from his regular visits to his management's offices to collect his royalties,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning26_119-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[109]  and the occasional visit from his sister Rosemary.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In August 1974,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning26_119-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[109]  Jenner persuaded Barrett to return to Abbey Road Studios in hope of recording another album. According to John Leckie, who engineered these sessions, even at this point Syd still "looked like he did when he was younger..long haired".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEParker2001194_124-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[114]  The sessions lasted three days and consisted of blues rhythm tracks with tentative and disjointed guitar overdubs. Barrett recorded 11 tracks, the only one of which to be titled was "If You Go, Don't Be Slow". Once again, Barrett withdrew from the music industry, but this time for good. He sold the rights to his solo albums back to the record label and moved into a London hotel. During this period, several attempts to employ him as a record producer (including one by Jamie Reid on behalf of the Sex Pistols, and another by The Damned, who wanted him to produce their second album) were all fruitless.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning1993_125-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[115] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner2005213_126-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[116] ====Withdrawal to Cambridge<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1978, when Barrett's money ran out, he moved back to Cambridge to live with his mother. He returned to live in London again in 1982, but lasted only a few weeks and soon returned to Cambridge for good. Barrett walked the 50 miles (80 km) from London to Cambridge.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPalacios2010414_127-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[117]  Until his death, Barrett received royalties from his work with Pink Floyd from each compilation and some of the live and studio albums and singles that featured his songs. Gilmour commented that he (Gilmour) "[made] sure the money [got] to him all right".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-cambridge-news2006_128-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[118]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1996, Barrett was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pink Floyd; he did not attend the ceremony.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-129" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[119]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">According to a 2005 profile by biographer Tim Willis, Barrett, who had reverted to using his original name of Roger, continued to live in his late mother's semi-detached home in Cambridge, and had returned to painting, creating large abstract canvases. He was also said to have been an avid gardener and his main point of contact with the outside world was his sister, Rosemary, who lived nearby. He was reclusive, and his physical health declined, as he suffered from stomach ulcers and type 2 diabetes.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-130" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[120]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Although Barrett had not appeared or spoken in public since the mid-1970s, time did little to diminish interest in his life and work. Reporters and fans still travelled to Cambridge to seek him out, despite his attempts to live a quiet life and public appeals from his family for people to leave him alone.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-131" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[121]  Many photos of Barrett being harassed by paparazzi when walking or cycling from the 1980s until his death in 2006, have been published in various media. Apparently, Barrett did not like being reminded about his musical career and the other members of Pink Floyd had no direct contact with him. However, he did visit his sister's house in November 2001 to watch the BBC Omnibus documentary made about him – reportedly he found some of it "a bit noisy", enjoyed seeing Mike Leonard of Leonard's Lodgers again, calling him his 'teacher', and enjoyed hearing "See Emily Play" again.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-132" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[122] ====Death and aftermath<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After suffering from diabetes for several years, Barrett died at home in Cambridge on 7 July 2006,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-cambridge-news.co.uk_18-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[18]  aged 60. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWatkinsonAnderson2001_133-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[123] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-134" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[124]  The occupation on his death certificate was "retired musician".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-135" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[125]  He was cremated, with his ashes given to a family member or friend.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-136" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[126]  In 2006, his home in St. Margaret's Square, Cambridge, was put on the market and reportedly attracted considerable interest.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-137" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[127]  After over 100 showings, many by fans, it was sold to a French couple who bought it simply because they liked it; reportedly they knew nothing about Barrett.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-138" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[128]  On 28 November 2006, Barrett's other possessions were sold at an auction at Cheffins auction house in Cambridge, raising £120,000 for charity.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-139" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[129]  Items sold included paintings, scrapbooks and everyday items that Barrett had decorated.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-140" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[130]  NME produced a tribute issue to Barrett a week later with a photo of him on the cover. In an interview with The Sunday Times, Barrett's sister revealed that he had written a book: "He read very deeply about the history of art and actually wrote an unpublished book about it, which I'm too sad to read at the moment. But he found his own mind so absorbing that he didn't want to be distracted."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-141" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[131]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">According to local newspapers, Barrett left approximately £1.7 million to his two brothers and two sisters.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-142" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[132]  This sum was apparently largely acquired from royalties from Pink Floyd compilations and live recordings featuring songs he had written while with the band.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-cambridge-news2006_128-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[118]  A tribute concert called Games for May<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irghdxiv_143-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[133]  was held at the Barbican Centre, London on 10 May 2007 with Robyn Hitchcock, Captain Sensible, Damon Albarn, Chrissie Hynde, Kevin Ayers and his Pink Floyd bandmates performing.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-144" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[134]  A series of events called The City Wakes was held in Cambridge in October 2008 to celebrate Barrett's life, art and music. Barrett's sister, Rosemary Breen, supported this, the first-ever series of official events in memory of her brother.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-145" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[135]  After the festival's success, arts charity Escape Artists announced plans to create a centre in Cambridge, using art to help people suffering from mental health problems.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-146" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[136] ==Legacy<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Wish You Were Here sessions<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Barrett visiting Abbey Road Studios on 5 June 1975<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Barrett had one noted reunion with the members of Pink Floyd, in 1975 during the recording sessions for Wish You Were Here. He attended the Abbey Road session unannounced, and watched the band record "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" — a song that happened to be about Barrett. By that time, the 29-year-old Barrett had become quite overweight, had shaved off all of his hair (including his eyebrows), and his ex-bandmates did not at first recognise him. Barrett's behaviour at the session was erratic; he spent part of the session brushing his teeth.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-147" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[137] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning1_148-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[138]  Roger Waters finally managed to ask him what he thought of the song and he simply said "sounds a bit old".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning1_148-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[138]  He briefly attended the reception for Gilmour's wedding to Ginger that immediately followed the recording sessions; however, he left early without saying goodbye.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Apart from a brief encounter between Waters and Barrett in Harrods a couple of years later<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning24_121-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[111] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPalacios2010412_149-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[139]  (during which, when Barrett saw Waters he ran outside, dropping his bags full of sweets in the process),<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning24_121-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[111]  this was the last time any member of Pink Floyd saw him. A reflection on the day appears in Nick Mason's bookInside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd. A reference to this reunion also appears in the film The Wall, where the character Pink, played by Bob Geldof, shaves his body hair after having a mental breakdown, just as Barrett had. ===Compilations<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1988, EMI Records (after constant pressure from Malcolm Jones)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning2_150-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[140]  released an album of Barrett's studio out-takes and previously unreleased material recorded from 1968 to 1970 under the title Opel.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AM_Opel_151-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[141]  The disc was originally set to include the unreleased Barrett Pink Floyd songs "Scream Thy Last Scream" and "Vegetable Man", which had been remixed for the album by Jones,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning2_150-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[140]  but the band pulled two songs<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManning2006186_152-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[142]  before Opel was finalised.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner2005116.E2.80.93117_153-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[143]  In 1993 EMI issued another release, Crazy Diamond, a boxed set of all three albums, each with further out-takes from his solo sessions that illustrated Barrett's inability/refusal to play a song the same way twice.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AM_CD_154-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[144]  EMI also released The Best of Syd Barrett: Wouldn't You Miss Me? in the UK on 16 April 2001 and in the US on 11 September 2001.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-WYMM_155-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[145]  This was the first time his song "Bob Dylan Blues" was officially released, taken from a demo tape that Gilmour had kept after an early 1970s session.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-WYMM_155-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[145]  Gilmour kept the tape, which also contains the unreleased "Living Alone" from the Barrett sessions.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rp001_156-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[146]  In October 2010 Harvest/EMI and Capitol Records released An Introduction to Syd Barrett—a collection of both his Pink Floyd and remastered solo work.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AM_Intro_157-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[147]  The 2010 compilation An Introduction to Syd Barrett includes the downloadable bonus track "Rhamadan", a 20-minute track recorded at one of Syd's earliest solo sessions, in May 1968. In 2011, it was announced that a vinyl double album version would be issued for Record Store Day.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-158" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[148] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-159" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[149]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Bootleg editions of Barrett's live and solo material exist.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-160" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[150] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-161" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[151]  For years the "off air" recordings of the BBC sessions with Barrett's Pink Floyd circulated, until an engineer who had taken a tape of the early Pink Floyd gave it back to the BBC—which played it during a tribute to John Peel on their website. During this tribute, the first Peel programme (Top Gear) was aired in its entirety. This show featured the 1967 live versions of "Flaming", "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun", and a brief 90-second snippet of the instrumental "Reaction in G". In 2012, engineer Andy Jackson said he had found "a huge box of assorted tapes", in Mason's possession, containing versions of R&B songs that (the Barrett-era) Pink Floyd played in their early years.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-162" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[152] ===Creative impact and technical innovation<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Barrett's first acoustic guitarMirrored Fender Esquire<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Barrett wrote most of Pink Floyd's early material. He was also an innovative guitarist, using extended techniques and exploring the musical and sonic possibilities of dissonance, distortion, feedback, the echo machine, tapes and other effects; his experimentation was partly inspired by free improvisation guitarist with the group AMM, active at the time in London, Keith Rowe.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPalacios2010101_163-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[153]  One of Barrett's trademarks was playing his guitar through an old echo box while sliding a Zippo lighter up and down the fret-board to create the mysterious, otherworldly sounds that became associated with the group. Barrett was known to have used Binson delay units to achieve his trademark echo sounds. Daevid Allen, founder member of Soft Machine and Gong, has cited Barrett's use of slide guitar with echo as a key inspiration for his own "glissando guitar" style.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-164" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[154]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Barrett's free-form sequences of "sonic carpets" pioneered a new way to play the rock guitar.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Den001_165-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[155]  He played several different guitars during his tenure, including an old Harmony hollowbody electric, a Harmony acoustic, a Fender acoustic, a single-coil Danelectro 59 DC,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-166" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[156]  several different Fender Telecasters and a white Fender Stratocaster in late 1967. A silver Fender Esquire with mirrored discs glued to the body<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irgh126_167-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[157]  was the guitar he was most often associated with and the guitar he "felt most close to."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rs009_118-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[108] ===Musical and pop culture influence<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Many artists have acknowledged Barrett's influence on their work. Paul McCartney, Pete Townshend,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning27_168-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[158]  Blur,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[159] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning32_170-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[160] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-guardian2006_171-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[161]  Kevin Ayers,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning28_172-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[162]  Gong,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning28_172-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[162]  Marc Bolan,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning32_170-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[160] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning29_173-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[163]  Tangerine Dream,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManning2006285.E2.80.93286_174-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[164]  Julian Cope<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning30_175-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[165]  and David Bowie<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning32_170-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[160] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning29_173-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[163]  were inspired by Barrett; Jimmy Page, Brian Eno,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-luckymojo1_176-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[166]  and The Damned<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning1993_125-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[115] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner2005214_177-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[167]  all expressed interest in working with him at some point during the 1970s. Bowie recorded a cover of "See Emily Play" on his 1973 album Pin Ups.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-178" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[168]  The track "Grass", from XTC's album Skylarking was influenced when Andy Partridge let fellow band member Colin Moulding borrow his Barrett records. Robyn Hitchcock's career was dedicated to being Barrett-esque; he even played "Dominoes" for the 2003 BBC documentary The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning30_175-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[165]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Barrett's decline had a profound effect on Roger Waters' songwriting, and the theme of mental illness permeated Pink Floyd's later albums, particularly 1973's The Dark Side of the Moon and 1975's Wish You Were Here<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Schaffner16_179-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[169]  which was a deliberate and affectionate tribute to Barrett, the song, "Shine on You Crazy Diamond",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-180" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[170]  and also 1979's The Wall.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Schaffner16_179-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[169]  "Wish You Were Here", partly about Barrett,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Schaffner18_181-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[171]  borrows imagery of a "steel rail" from Barrett's solo song, "If It's in You," from The Madcap Laughsalbum.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1987, an album of Barrett cover songs called Beyond the Wildwood was released. The album was a collection of cover songs from Barrett's tenure with Pink Floyd and from his solo career. Artists appearing were UK and US indie bands including The Shamen, Opal, The Soup Dragons, and Plasticland.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[172]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Other artists who have written tributes to Barrett include his contemporary Kevin Ayers, who wrote "O Wot a Dream" in his honour (Barrett provided guitar to an early version of Ayers' song "Religious Experience: Singing a Song in the Morning").<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning13_58-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[53] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-palacios362_101-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[94]  Robyn Hitchcock has covered many of his songs live and on record and paid homage to his forebear with the songs "The Man Who Invented Himself" and "(Feels Like) 1974". Phish covered "Bike", "No Good Trying", "Love You", "Baby Lemonade" and "Terrapin". The Television Personalities' single "I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-guardian2006_171-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[161]  from their 1981 album And Don't the Kids Love It is another tribute.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-184" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[nb 11]  In 2008, The Trash Can Sinatras released a single in tribute to the life and work of Syd Barrett called "Oranges and Apples", from their 2009 album In The Music. Proceeds from the single go to the Syd Barrett Trust in support of arts in mental health.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Johnny Depp showed interest in a biographical film based on Barrett's life.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-185" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[174]  Barrett is portrayed briefly in the opening scene of Tom Stoppard's play Rock 'n' Roll (2006), performing "Golden Hair". His life and music, including the disastrous Cambridge Corn Exchange concert and his later reclusive lifestyle, are a recurring motif in the work.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-186" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[175] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-187" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[176]  Barrett died during the play's run in London. ===Mental state<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There has been much speculation concerning Barrett's psychological well-being. Many believe he suffered from schizophrenia.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-tp001_90-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[83] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rst001_188-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[177] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-sch001_189-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[178]  Barrett's use of psychedelic drugs, especially LSD, during the 1960s is well documented. In an article published in 2006, in response to notions that Barrett's problems came from the drug, Gilmour was quoted as saying: "In my opinion, his nervous breakdown would have happened anyway. It was a deep-rooted thing. But I'll say the psychedelic experience might well have acted as a catalyst. Still, I just don't think he could deal with the vision of success and all the things that went with it."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-190" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[179]  Many stories of Barrett's erratic behaviour off stage as well as on are also well-documented. In Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey, author Nicholas Schaffner interviewed people who knew Barrett before and during his Pink Floyd days. These included friends Peter and Susan Wynne-Wilson, artist Duggie Fields (with whom Barrett shared a flat during the late 1960s), June Bolan and Storm Thorgerson, among others.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">"For June Bolan, the alarm bells began to sound only when Syd kept his girlfriend under lock and key for three days, occasionally shoving a ration of biscuits under the door."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner200577_191-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[180]  A claim of cruelty against Barrett committed by the groupies and hangers-on who frequented his apartment during this period was described by writer and critic Jonathan Meades. "I went [to Barrett's flat] to see Harry and there was this terrible noise. It sounded like heating pipes shaking. I said, 'What's up?' and he sort of giggled and said, 'That's Syd having a bad trip. We put him in the linen cupboard'".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning33_192-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[181]  Storm Thorgerson responded to this claim by stating "I do not remember locking Syd up in a cupboard. It sounds to me like pure fantasy, like Jonathan Meades was on dope himself."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning33_192-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[181]  Watkinson and Anderson included quotes from a story told to them by Thorgerson that underscored how volatile Barrett could be. "On one occasion, I had to pull him off Lindsay (Barrett's girlfriend at the time) because he was beating her over the head with a mandolin".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWatkinsonAnderson200183_193-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[182]  On one occasion, Barrett threw a woman called Gilly across the room, because she refused to go to Gilmour's house.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-manning24_121-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[111]  According to Gilmour in an interview with Nick Kent, the other members of Pink Floyd approached psychiatrist R. D. Laing with the 'Barrett problem'. After hearing a tape of a Barrett conversation, Laing declared him "incurable".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-194" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[183] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner2005106.E2.80.93107_195-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[184]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After Barrett died, his sister Rosemary insisted that Barrett neither suffered from mental illness nor received treatment for it at any time since they resumed regular contact in the 1980s.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-wil002_196-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[185]  She allowed that he did spend some time in a private "home for lost souls"—Greenwoods in Essex—but claimed there was no formal therapy programme there. Some years later, Barrett apparently agreed to sessions with a psychiatrist at Fulbourn psychiatric hospital in Cambridge, but Breen claimed that neither medication nor therapy was considered appropriate.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-wil002_196-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[185]  His sister denied he was a recluse or that he was vague about his past: "Roger may have been a bit selfish—or rather self-absorbed—but when people called him a recluse they were really only projecting their own disappointment. He knew what they wanted, but he wasn't willing to give it to them." Barrett, she said, took up photography and sometimes they went to the seaside together. "Quite often he took the train on his own to London to look at the major art collections—and he loved flowers. He made regular trips to the Botanic Gardens and to the dahlias at Anglesey Abbey, near Lode. But of course, his passion was his painting", she said.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-wil002_196-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[185] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-wil001_197-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[186] ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Main article: Syd Barrett discographySee also: Pink Floyd discography;Studio albums ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * The Madcap Laughs (1970)
 * Barrett (1970)
 * London '66–'67 (1967)
 * Tonite Lets All Make Love in London (1967)
 * The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story (2003)