After he left Pink Floyd, nobody was quite sure what to make of where Syd Barrett would go next. The resulting album tells us ...

Pink Floyd decidedly left Syd Barrett behind in 1968 en route to a show at Southampton University after joking about not picking him up.

In 2016, marking 10 years since Syd Barrett’s death, Prog explored the magic and mystery of the man who created Pink Floyd from the perspective of those who’d been close to him, revealing a ...

Wish You Were Here features Pink Floyd at their finest. Did you know some of what went on behind the scenes of making the record?

"Syd Barrett was absolutely unbelievable in terms of what he was doing. He took a step sideways and channelled all this amazing stuff. Their version of psychedelia was very, very cool.

Think of Ronnie. Think of Paul. And in certain respects, the later paintings of Syd Barrett show a man who is not so much resigned to destroying his life as systematically trying to re-build it.

Though the Syd Barrett era is only a small part on the timeline of the Pink Floyd story, it remains one of the most significant chapters in their history. Syd died in 2006 at age 60, but his ...

Set to broadcast on the tenth anniversary of his death (7 July 2006), Syd Barrett lives on freeze-framed, still young and a striking lost soul of the 1960s, whose brief moment of ...

It’s been 50 years since Pink Floyd released Wish You Were Here, an album that paid tribute to their founding member Syd Barrett and marked a pivotal moment for the band.