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Syd Barrett with his Fender Esquire, 1965

“I was standing at the front but couldn’t move, I could only take pictures of Syd Barrett and Nick Mason. After the concert, Syd Barrett said: ‘Why do the audience scream so much? Why don’t they clap?’” - Photographer Nick Aarestrup Roddik on the band’s concert at The Boom Dancing Center from 1967

“Arnold Layne just happens to dig dressing up in women’s clothing. A lot of people do — so let’s face up to reality. About the only other lyric people could object to is the bit about ‘it takes two to know’ and there’s nothing smutty about that. But then if more people like them dislike us, more people like the underground lot are going to dig us, so we hope they’ll cancel each other out.“  - Syd Barrett

David Bowie: Helen Green Illustration GIF - 2015

SYD BARRETT

“ The Madcap Laughs” (1970)

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“ Syd will always be the Pink Floyd for some of us older fans. He made this album, according to legend, while fragile and precariously out of control. Malcolm Jones, one of his producers at the time, denies this vehemently. I will go with Jones, as he was there. Highlight track for me is “Dark Globe,” gloriously disturbing and poignant all at once.”

David Bowie

This is so sad !!

“The simple fact is that when I lost my son, when Karac left us, I really changed. I mean, there’s nothing on the planet to equal that kind of grief…it still makes me shudder. No matter how good you are or how capable you are or how strong you are or how well-intentioned you are, you don’t get over anything like that.“ - Robert Plant