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The late Roger ‘Syd’ Barrett, from Cambridge, was a co-founder of the 1960’s music group Pink Floyd and performed on lead guitar and vocals. He also composed many of their songs. He was responsible for inspiring an entire generation of musicians to develop their own indigenous brand of English rock music.

Syd was quintessentially English, penning idiosyncratic songs unique in style and tone. He had a hugely attractive personality and with his good looks he was difficult to ignore. He was a quick-witted clown who kept family and friends laughing at his good-natured cheekiness throughout his younger years. Always interested in experimenting with music, he played the recorder, piano, ukulele, Jew’s harp and guitar all to a good standard.

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“Octopus” on YouTube

Syd Barrett's single, "Octopus", is now available on the Syd Barrett YouTube channel @SydBarrettOfficial. The story and making of “Octopus” is fairly straightforward. Syd Barrett entered the studio under Peter Jenner’s supervision…

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The Artyst: A Syd Barrett-Inspired Cafe Opening in Cambridge Cambridge is about to welcome a new and unique cafe experience with the opening of "The Artyst," a creative sanctuary dedicated to Syd Barrett, founding member of Pink Floyd but it…

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Syd’s Cafe Opening in Cambridge

Syd's Cafe is getting ready to open to the public! The location is on Mitcham's Corner, in Cambridge, a location which would have been very familiar to Syd as it is located very near where Syd's aunt lived. Please do listen to the recent…

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1 week ago

A Saucerful of Secrets is the second studio album by Pink Floyd, released on 28 June 1968 by EMI Columbia in the UK and in the US by Tower Records.

The mental health of Syd Barrett deteriorated during recording, so David Gilmour was recruited.
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Ohh man,,, Greaty toon!!!

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Which artist and album this cover comes from ? It didn't seem to me gilmour or even late pink floyd's performances have played this track...

I know these early albums are not for everyone, but I love early floyd,so experimental, so different 🕉

Remember a Day

Please release the mono version on CD!!!

O Man what a song !!! It give's me chills

Classic

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

These guys were in a different league. Completely unique at the time and nobody has got anywhere close to them. A true phenomenon.

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A mystical experience, forever in my soul youtu.be/ctzhGAPgABo?si=M6AbO-VBuOWeen7T

I brought it with me yesterday to my radio program I've been hosting for 20 years to celebrate the anniversary but I instead had to do a tribute to Lalo Shirin because the previous friday June 20th was his 93 rd birthday but sadly he died on Thursday the 26th. I played the entire soundtrack to THX 1138 Syd would have agreed. 💞

Syd was a painter much more than a musician and he didn’t like being famous he had no control over his success sometimes the drugs do work and in his case probably too well like Peter Green found out and many more Acid can make you see the world differently and in the sixties it often was pretty pure especially if you were famous for me it was an amazing adventure and I was lucky despite my best efforts I survived a lot didn’t 😃😃

"And Dr. Strange is always changing size!"

I love Pink Floyd but it’s so sad about syd

Syd was so handsome and sweet🥰❤️✨✨✨

I love that so so soooooo much!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

this version is not on the studio album

Loce it

I absolutely love the first two albums made by the Floyd. Love the singles from their 60s as well.

Now that's beautiful really beautiful!! Syd Barrett nice moments ⭐️🌺💯

Let There Be More Light- had bits taken from One In A Million, a bass riff from Interstellar Overdrive, and seems to have parts of Tomorrow's World that also became Careful With That Axe Eugene. Andrew King said Syd played the slide solo at the end. Remember A Day- Is an outtake from Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, with Syd Barrett on slide guitar. Set The Controls- Syd Barrett is possibly the only guitarist on this recording, and it features no bass. It has Chinese poetry like Chapter24. Corperal Clegg- This was thought to include Syd for years, but does not by his own admission. Some guitar bits were taken from One In A Million. A Saucerful Of Secrets- Was recorded as a new version of Nick's Boogie, and features the same slide guitar and dissonance sounds like the original, played by Gilmour. See-Saw- Is a Rick wright childlike song like Barrett's Flaming. Jugband Blues- Features Syd Barrett.

This is so beautiful! Everything about it❣️

Legend album Classic Psychedelic Rock on millenium.

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Syd Barrett (Official)

2 weeks ago

“I thought it was lovely. I loved the fact that it had the words included, and also all the 'little boy Rog', shots. Magical and fun!” – Ruth

“A wonderful example of Syd’s childish energy, I think this video demonstrates it so well.” - Rosemary

Recorded in 1970 for Syd’s final solo album Barrett, “Effervescing Elephant” is a delightful throwback to the lyrical styles from his Pink Floyd days. The recording sessions came at the later part of the Barrett sessions, at which point David Gilmour had begun requesting Syd to demo whatever he had lying around. The song, however, had made an earlier outing in February when Syd had performed it on BBC’s Top Gear. The song was recorded over a period of four days in July 1970 and consisted of Syd performing acoustically, accompanied by Vic Saywell on tuba. Saywell, a well-known and respected session musician, had previously worked with the Beatles, and it’s thought that Saywell also worked on Atom Heart Mother with Pink Floyd.

“Effervescing Elephant” is a story sung in two parts. The first part is that of a conversation between the Elephant and a smaller being, “one inferior.” The being is by some thought to be a mouse. It may very well be that the “one inferior” is a child—a Mowgli figure. In the first three verses of the song, the Elephant warns the little one that the tiger will kill him, specifically with the phrase “That by next June he'd die, oh yeah!” This seems to stir the “one inferior” to go through the jungle, warning all the other animals of the dangerous tiger. Eventually, the tiger catches up with the little one with the assurance that he wouldn’t eat the “one inferior” simply because it is “too scant,” upon which the tiger eats the Elephant.

There is a connection between Syd’s songwriting and the cautionary tales by Hilaire Belloc, or perhaps The Boy Who Cried Wolf by Aesop. Or maybe the story is simply a caution not to tell lies, as the titular Elephant does.

Artist on the border: For me, as a visualizer, it had to be portrayed as a children’s book, and for that purpose I repurposed an existing story about two children on a jungle trek: 1934’s A Jungle Picnic by Clifford Webb. In my parallel universe “Effervescing Elephant” is a chapter with in a story where siblings Rog and Roe go to Africa. Maybe one day we can tell that story?! Either way here’s a bedtime story for the young at heart.

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