On this date, Barrett left the entry in his diary blank. His father died of cancer on 11 December 1961, less than a month before Barrett's 16th birthday. Later, in 1957, he attended Cambridgeshire High School for Boys with Waters. He would never have allowed it." Īt one point at Morley Memorial Junior School, Barrett was taught by the mother of future Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters. His sister Rosemary said: "He was never Syd at home. He used both names interchangeably for several years. By another account, when Barrett was 13, his schoolmates nicknamed him Syd after he came to a field day at Abington Scout site wearing a flat cap instead of his scout beret, because "Syd" was a "working-class" name.
Īccording to one story, at the age of 14, Barrett acquired the nickname Syd after an old Cambridge jazz bassist, Sid "the Beat" Barrett Barrett changed the spelling to differentiate himself.
He was a Scout with the 7th Cambridge troop and went on to be a patrol leader. A year after he purchased his first acoustic guitar, he bought his first electric guitar and built his own amplifier. He bought a ukulele aged 10, a banjo at 11 and a Höfner acoustic guitar at 14. īarrett played piano occasionally but usually preferred writing and drawing. In 1951, his family moved to 183 Hills Road. His father, Arthur Max Barrett, was a prominent pathologist and was said to be related to Elizabeth Garrett Anderson through Max's maternal grandmother Ellen Garrett. Roger Keith Barrett was born on 6 January 1946 in Cambridge to a middle-class family living at 60 Glisson Road.
1.2.2 Tonite Lets All Make Love in London. 1.2.1 London Underground, Blackhill Enterprises and gigs. In 1996, Barrett was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pink Floyd. In 1988, EMI released an album of unreleased tracks and outtakes, Opel, with Barrett's approval. Pink Floyd recorded several tributes and homages to him, including the 1975 song suite " Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and the 1979 rock opera The Wall. He continued painting and dedicated himself to gardening. In 1972, Barrett left the music industry, retired from public life and strictly guarded his privacy until his death. He began a brief solo career in 1969 with the single " Octopus" and followed with the albums The Madcap Laughs (1970) and Barrett (1970), recorded with the aid of several members of Pink Floyd. In April 1968, Barrett was ousted from the band amid speculation of mental illness and his excessive use of psychedelic drugs. With Pink Floyd, he recorded four singles, their debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967), portions of their second album A Saucerful of Secrets (1968), and several unreleased songs. Originally trained as a painter, Barrett was musically active for less than ten years. As a guitarist, he was influential for his free-form playing and for employing effects such as dissonance, distortion, echo and feedback. Barrett was their original frontman and primary songwriter, becoming known for his whimsical style of psychedelia, English-accented singing, and stream-of-consciousness writing style. Roger Keith " Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, songwriter, and musician who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd in 1965.
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