If you are not happy with the results below please do another search
Pink Floyd’s 50th Anniversary Animation contest was won by a brilliant piece of work by Rati Dabrundashvili and Nastassja Nikitina, from Caucasus, Georgia, who won the first prize of £100,000 for their animation entitled “Brain Damage”. The video’s animation style replicating a moving painting put it in a league of its own and was filled with Pink […]
I was standing on an escalator in London, riding down into the Underground with a copy of Rolling Stone magazine. It was late 1971 and I was not happy. Life had rolled easily for me at school: out in the world I was foundering. A junkie girl – another lost middle-class kid like myself, only […]
The documentary film, “Have you got it yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd”, which brings former Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, to life from stories from friends and fellow musicians was shortlisted for the Music Film of the Year in MOJO magazine in 2023. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Roddy Bogawa (Taken By Storm: The Art […]
Have You Seen It Yet? The new Syd Barrett film Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett is showing in Light Cinemas around the UK on 30th October. Addlestone Banbury Bolton Bradford Cambridge New Brighton Redhill Sheffield Sittingbourne Stockport Thetford Walsall Wisbech Directed by award-winning filmmaker Roddy Bogawa (Taken By Storm: The Art of […]
The tour of the film Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett continues. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Roddy Bogawa (Taken By Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis) and the late, acclaimed designer Storm Thorgerson (Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Black Sabbath). Featuring interviews with David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Roger Waters, original band managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King, as […]
We are delighted to reveal the next new Official Lyrics Video of Syd’s song “She Took A Long Cool Look” is available now on YouTube. Please enjoy. We look forward to reading your comments.
The Barrett family are thrilled to launch the next animated lyric video for Syd Barrett Official YouTube, “Love Song”. Created by Swedish animator The Artist On The Border it is inspired by the love letters Syd wrote to his girlfriends Libby Gausden Chisman and Jenny Spires in the heady, magical late Sixties when Pink Floyd […]
“Well, that’s the last we’ll ever hear of Pink Floyd.” With his presence looming so large over the band, it’s not hard to believe the apocryphal quote that Pink Floyd was genuinely considered without a future upon the 1968 exit of co founder and primary songwriter Syd Barrett. Barrett led the legendary band and helped […]
Opening In NY Theaters July 14th & LA Theaters July 21st Additional Cities To Be Announced Directed by award-winning filmmaker Roddy Bogawa (Taken By Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis) and the late, acclaimed designer Storm Thorgerson (Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Black Sabbath). Featuring interviews with David Gilmour, Nick Mason and […]
A new drama for BBC Radio 4, THE BALLAD OF SYD & MORGAN, starring Simon Russell Beale (pictured), Tyger Drew-Honey (pictured) and Madeleine Leslay is available on BBC Sounds. Dramatised by Roger James Elsgood from Haydn Middleton’s novel of the same name. The story features an imagined meeting that takes place between Syd Barrett and […]
A new drama for BBC Radio 4, THE BALLAD OF SYD & MORGAN, starring Simon Russell Beale, Tyger Drew-Honey and Madeleine Leslay will be broadcast on Saturday, May 20th at 3.00 pm. It will subsequently be available on BBC Sounds. Following on from the book of the same name written by Haydn Middleton. This drama […]
Syd Barrett Music Limited and the Syd Barrett estate are launching a dedicated Syd Barrett YouTube channel The channel is a natural extension of Syd Barrett’s existing online presence and will consist of artistic interpretations of his solo music, with accompanying music and lyrics. Together with the Swedish animator, Alex Teglbjaerg, known as The Artist […]
Cult icon, enigma, recluse… the life of Syd Barrett, founding member of Pink Floyd, is full of unanswered questions. Until now. Piecing together his comet-like rise to pop stardom, his creative and destructive impulses, breakdown, exit from the band and subsequent life alone, this feature length documentary is set against the social context of the […]
For photos of Syd in an Instagram style then please check out our new Instagram account, @syd_barrettofficial. It includes photos spanning his lifetime as well as lyrics, quotes and videos. We hope you enjoy this new channel of Syd and join in the conversations there. We also have a whole host of photos on […]
Syd’s birthday is on 6th January, born in 1946 to Win and Max Barrett in Cambridge. To celebrate Syd’s birthday this year, Lee Harris has written a piece on one of Syd’s songs in our section Stories behind the Songs. Lee chose the song “Here I Go” written by Syd and recorded in 1969. Lee […]