He recorded two solo albums. Barrett's use of drugs, particularly LSD, in the 60s, was well-documented and he was often described as the original acid casualty. A statement issued on behalf of Pink Floyd said: "The band are naturally very upset and sad to learn of Syd Barrett's death. Syd was the guiding light of the early band line-up and leaves a legacy which continues to inspire.
He died of pancreatic cancer in at the age of The guitar, which Barrett got in , was bought by a bidder from France. Barrett, whose real name was Roger Keith Barrett, mentioned the guitar in a interview with Rolling Stone magazine. He told the journalist Mick Rock: "It's my new string guitar. I'm just getting used to it. I polished it yesterday. Top Artists. Top Charts. Hot Songs. Billboard Top Videos. Top Articles. Britney Spears Conservatorship Ends.
By Billboard Staff. He turned up uninvited and briefly jammed onstage with Jack Bruce of Cream, before disappearing into the audience during the poetry readings; one of which was by Pete Brown. The latter recognised his face in the crowd and said, "I'd like to dedicate this next poem to Syd Barrett, because he's a native of Cambridge who I consider to be one of the great poets and songwriters of his generation. From then on, he retreated into the shadows.
He lived between his mother's house in Cambridge and a flat in Chelsea, where he slept on a mattress on the bare floorboards that he had painted green and red, ate eggs which he boiled in a kettle and lived on royalty cheques from his former band.
There was a brief attempt to make a third solo album in that came to nothing. He entered the studio at the moment they were recording 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' - a song the band had written about him.
But when he walked into the studio, no one knew who he was. Waters had assumed he was someone with Gilmour. Gilmour assumed he was with the rest of the band.
It was 45 minutes before they realised who the shaven-headed, dishevelled-looking man was. At one point, so the story goes, Syd decided he wanted to clean his teeth. He attempted to do this by holding a toothbrush and jumping up and down on the spot. Almost as strangely, Syd then asked the band, who hadn't seen him in years: "When do I put my guitar on? In , he left the flat in Chelsea and decided to return home to Cambridge.
He walked the entire 50 miles. He lived in that house until his death of pancreatic cancer on July 7, , aged He never left the house. Syd, whose mother died in , was indifferent to - or unaware of - the outside world's obsession with him because of a moment from his distant past. In , his younger sister Rosemary said: "He just tried to put that whole thing away. If anyone called him Syd he wouldn't answer [his real name was Roger].
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