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"John Lennon doesn't have to do this, why should I?": Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, and the creation of See Emily Play
The talented but troubled Pink Floyd co-founder is certainly celebrated by Nick Mason’s group, now on their seventh tour in ...
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No. 9: Syd Barrett’s Psychotic Breakdown
A founding member of Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett was best known as the lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter during the band's heavily psychedelic early years. He composed the majority of ...
10 replacement band members that proved major upgrades
It's never easy to start things with a new member of a group, but these members massively improved on the original formula.
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Mick Rock: David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Queen photographer dies at 72
She added: "We lost a legend, a true artist Mick Rock." Her husband Ozzy Osbourne was among the other stars who Rock captured, along with Pink Floyd and their former singer Syd Barrett ...
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Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett guitar sells for £20K at Cambridge auction
Syd Barrett's guitar was put up for sale by his ... He told the journalist Mick Rock: "It's my new 12-string guitar. I'm just getting used to it. I polished it yesterday." Shortly after that ...
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Watch: Pink Floyd Partially Reunite in 2007 to Honor Syd Barrett With a Performance of the Band’s Debut Single “Arnold Layne”
On May 10, 2007, the members of Pink Floyd united for The Madcap’s Last Laugh, a tribute concert at the Barbican in London, honoring the band’s co-founder Syd Barrett, who died in 2006 at ...
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Twink (The Pink Fairies, The Pretty Things, Tomorrow)
After that, Twink moved onto The Pretty Things were he helped create the very first rock opera, SF Sorrow ... on releasing a collection of material that you recorded with Syd Barrett. The recording of ...
Keith Richards at 80 - the Stones axeman is still the embodiment of rock 'n' roll
Affecting a rock ... Vicious, Syd Barrett, Lou Reed – but never have I see anyone like Keith. All the stories? They’re all ...
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See David Bowie Sing ‘Starman’ in Mick Rock’s Previously Unseen Footage
Ahead of a reissue of Ziggy Stardust mixed in Atmos sound, a new music video for the album’s “Starman” pairs the song with previously unseen footage shot by Mick Rock. The famed photographer ...
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Watch Mick Rock's previously unseen video for David Bowie's Starman
The video was compiled using previously unseen film shot by Bowie's longtime collaborator Mick Rock, and was shot in the UK on the Ziggy Stardust tour in 1972 and 1973. More footage from the tour ...
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Richest Musicians of All Time
Over the next several years, AC/DC took the rock scene by storm ... he met future Pink Floyd members Syd Barrett and Roger ...
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The mind-bending story of cult psychedelic heroes Gong
When Mick Jagger knelt to receive his knighthood ... vocals and glissando guitar technique (inspired by Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett) that would become fundamental to the Gong sound.