ROGER KEITH BARRETT: 1946 - 2006
It is with much sadness that we bring you the news that Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett has passed away, leaving us on Friday, July 7th.An official statement confirmed the news, stating that "he died very peacefully", and that there will be a private, family funeral. He had been suffering from diabetes for a number of years, and been living his life quietly in Cambridge. His family confirmed that his passing was due to complications relating to the diabetes.
Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends. He will be remembered with much love and affection.
Roger Keith Barrett was born in Glisson Road, Cambridge, to Winifred and Arthur Barrett, on January 6th, 1946. From an early age, he displayed a musical and artistic nature, and played the ukelele, banjo and piano - indeed, he won a prize for a piano duet at the tender age of seven. He then took up the guitar.
As he built on his guitar skills, his exploration of music in all its forms took him to the Riverside Jazz Club, where the drummer - one Sid Barrett - nicknamed the young Roger "Syd", a name which stuck.
With his growing prowess, he played in various bands in Cambridge and London - bands such as Geoff Mott and The Mottoes, Those Without, The Hollerin' Blues, The Spectrum Five, Leonard's Lodgers, and then, in 1965, The Pink Floyd were formed.
The Floyd toured extensively between 1965 - 1967, in a punishing schedule which saw them even play more than one country some evenings! The band's first album, Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, was also recorded during this period, as were Syd's contributions to the second album, A Saucerful Of Secrets.
He left the band at the start of 1968, and pursued a solo career. Two main albums came out of this very fragile period - The Madcap Laughs, and Barrett (both 1970). Other solo albums were to follow, taken from various sessions recorded between 1969 - 1971.
Roger Barrett retired from the public eye, choosing to live out the remainder of his life in his mother's house, even after her death in 1991. He contented himself with painting, and reportedly wrote a book about the history of art, for his own amusement (with no intention of publishing).
He will live on in the hearts of his friends, family, and his many fans across the world.
We have had many emails from fans wishing to mark their own respects to Barrett, and to share their thoughts and prayers.
http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/news/0607113.html
Pink Floyd's Barrett dies aged 60
The legendary rock band's first creative force dies from complications arising from diabetes. Send us your tributes to the man and his musical legacy...
Syd Barrett, one of the original members of legendary rock group Pink Floyd, has died at the age of 60 from complications arising from diabetes.
He was born Roger Barrett in Cambridge and met future bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmour at school there.
The guitarist was invited to join Pink Floyd by Waters in 1965 but left three years later after only one album with his mental state affected by drugs.
"He died very peacefully a couple of days ago," said the band's spokeswoman.
"There will be a private family funeral."
undisputed leader
Barrett took up a place at London's Camberwell School Of Art in the 1960s, alternating his studies with a spell in an aspiring R&B act, the Hollering Blues.
He renamed Waters' group the Pink Floyd Sound, from an album featuring Georgia blues musicians Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.
Having dropped their now-superfluous suffix, Pink Floyd became a linchpin of London's nascent "underground" scene, playing at clubs such as UFO in Tottenham Court Road.
Barrett emerged as their principal songwriter and undisputed leader, composing their early hit singles, Arnold Layne and See Emily Play (both 1967), as well as the bulk of their debut album, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn.
But his drug intake soon began to affect his place in the band.
Often he would be seen standing on stage with his guitar dangling from his neck, staring into the crowd.
"mental breakdown"
At one stage he was unhappy about appearing on Top of the Pops and walked out of a session recording in July 1967 after "freaking out".
"That really was the first sign of his complete mental breakdown," producer Richard Buskin wrote later.
"He never did come back into the studio any more after that, meaning that I had a hell of a hard time with the recordings".
He did turn up again, ironically on the day the other band members were recording a tribute to him, Shine On You Crazy Diamond.
Just as Pink Floyd were about to achieve worldwide success, he retreated from public life to return to Cambridge.
Members of the band felt his breakdown might have happened even if he had not used drugs but felt that along with the pressures of fame, the substances he took probably acted as a catalyst.
After he finally drifted out of the music scene, his whereabouts were unknown for two decades, until he turned out to be living with his mother.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2006/07/11/music_syd_barrett_obit_feature.shtml
R.I.P. , 要播一播The Great Gig in the Sky致哀......:icon099:
[ 本帖最後由 橙色力量 於 2006-7-1412:42 AM 編輯 ] R.I.P.
Shine on You crazy Diamond RIP:( wish you were there gd bye,,,,syd
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