The Pink Floyd founder member is to be remembered with a concert, art exhibition and album.

The galvanising force behind Pink Floyd's early successes, Syd Barrett's gifts for quirky lyricism, imaginative songcraft and audacious guitar playing were central to the band's kaleidoscopic sound.

Pink Floyd was still trying to find its new identity in 1971. A song that took up an entire album side helped them do it.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images You will no doubt have read the obituaries for Syd Barrett, who died of cancer on July ...

In the book Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Story, Roger Waters is quoted as saying about his former bandmate Syd Barrett, “It couldn’t have happened without him, but on the other hand it ...

Syd Barrett, who walked Pink Floyd through the gates of dawn before mental illness forced his departure from the then-rising group, will be the focus of an upcoming documentary featuring new ...

Mercury Studios has completed work on a documentary about Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett. Titled Have You Got It Yet? after an unreleased Barrett song, the film was started by longtime Floyd ...

Syd Barrett was born Roger Keith Barrett in Cambridge, England on January 6, 1946. As a teenager, Barrett gained the nickname ...

The celebrity world is full of tragic tales, and the music industry seems to have more than its fair share of them. Many fans are left mourning the lives of artists who were gone too soon or whose ...

Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin remain classic rock juggernauts decades after their apex. Page’s best guitar solos remain iconic, and the band’s songs are still all-time greats. Even though he was focused ...

Mason, who last year launched his new band Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets with the aim of celebrating that early material, recently picked his favorite Barrett tracks for Rolling Stone. He chose ...