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" I do not think it is easy to understand when I speak. I have something wrong in the head. Anyway, I am nothing of what you think I am. "Syd Barret

Born in Cambridge on January 6 of 1946, Barrett founded Pink Floyd in 1965.

Founder of Pink Floyd and a leading figure of the British progressive rock at the turn of the late '60s and early '70s.

Barrett is considered by many to be one of the most creative geniuses in the history of rock music and one of its greatest legends. Syd Barrett was an eccentric, idealistic soul of Pink Floyd, but his personality as a dreamer and his indulgence in drugs led him to become a real burden in the group, after having been the greatest inspiration.

He is most remembered as a founding member psychedelic / progressive rock band Pink Floyd , providing major musical and stylistic direction in their early work, even if he has left the group in 1968 between speculations of mental illness exacerbated by heavy drug use .

Barrett was active as a rock musician for about seven years and recorded two albums with Pink Floyd and two solo albums first to enter into self-imposed isolation that lasted for more than thirty years. His post-rock band life was as an artist and a keen gardener, ending with his death in 2006. A number of biographies have been written about him since 1980 and Pink Floyd wrote and recorded many tributes to him after he left, the best known is the 1975 album Wish You Were Here .

rock: Syd has inspired many of the psychedelic rock band and has also attracted many other major artists. He had great weight also his approach to music, free, non-technical and related to improvisation. For a long time, having split from Pink Floyd, it was speculated on his mental state and have created various rumors that her madness was actually due to the use of industrial quantities of acid. The most loyal fans, friends and family members have denied everything, but Barrett is now considered The most striking example of "rock star fantasy.">