Syd Barret

The rock band Pink Floyd has proven over the years to be a great influence on music and art in Britain and around the world. The band is most acclaimed for their sonically experimental approach and their cerebral masterpieces of the seventies. But having made seven albums before they became a world-renowned psychedelic band, they had time to develop their signature style and songwriting technique. The early days of the band are some of the …

…of Pink Floyd. His story directly effected the lives and mindsets of the other members of the band. It is interesting to look at the whole history of this band. Syd Barret was an artist, while the others were studying to become architects. It is as if Syd did a wild and impossible drawing, and Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Rick Wright and Nick Mason developed the vision to form Pink Floyd (The Syd Barret Story).