
Syd Barrett
- guitarist
- singer
- poet
- singer-songwriter
- Born 1946-01-06
- Died 2006-07-07 (aged 60)
- Nationality United Kingdom
- Years active 1964–1974
Biography
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Filmography
See full filmography| Role | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story | TV movie | 55 |
Career timeline
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1946 age 0
Born2001 age 55
2006 age 60
Died
Worked with most
Family and influences
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Photos
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I'm full of dust and guitars…
Syd Barrett, CC BY-SA 4.0
All middle men are bad.
Syd Barrett, CC BY-SA 4.0
I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.
Syd Barrett, CC BY-SA 4.0
And what exactly is a dream, and what exactly is a joke?
Syd Barrett, CC BY-SA 4.0
It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here, and I'm most obliged to you for making it clear that I'm not here.
Syd Barrett, CC BY-SA 4.0
Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter…I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done…But it didn't transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort of places with the lights and that, the fact that the group was getting bigger and bigger.
Syd Barrett, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Facts
Personal details
- Nationalities
- United Kingdom
- Cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- Languages
- English
- Years active
- 1964–1974
- Instruments
- guitar, banjo, ukulele, mandolin, slide guitar, piano, voice
- Record labels
- EMI, Capitol Records, Harvest
- Genres
- rock music, psychedelic rock, psychedelic folk, experimental rock, progressive rock, space rock, outsider music, psychedelic pop, proto-punk
- Education
- Camberwell College of Arts, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridgeshire High School for Boys, Hills Road Sixth Form College