Nobody wanted what The Soft Boys were selling in 1980, but their superb swan song made them the VU for new generations of ...

It’s intoxicating, not at all theartsdesk on Vinyl ’s usual thing but achieving soaring lift-off, nonetheless. Comes in photo ...

Following Syd Barrett's departure in 1968, Pink Floyd was at a critical juncture in their career. Find out which icon they ...

The Captain notes that Pete Barnes, who handled The Damned’s song publishing, also handled the catalogs of both Pink Floyd and its reclusive founding frontman Syd Barrett, who left early on.

In the year 1980, the Dead Kennedys debut presented a new sound for punk. Here guitarist East Bay Ray tells us how they made Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables ...

Syd Barrett left Pink Floyd in 1968 ... but considering how prolific he had been for much of the '60s — he wrote or co-wrote all but one song on Pink Floyd's first album, The Piper at the ...

As a member of Floyd during its formative years, Syd Barrett was a troubled genius whose drug abuse and poetic lyrics personified the psychedelic 60s. Roger Keith Barrett was born in Cambridge in ...

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. The guitarist was the band's first creative force and ...

unresolved in a way that felt both tragic and full of potential—and thought of Syd Barrett. The band’s co-founding member and former vocalist had parted ways at the end of the ’60s due to ...

Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett went away for a long weekend. When he came back, he was a completely different person. Trump shares reaction to the stock markets tanking 60s American singer-songwriter ...

They did ensure he properly received all royalties owed to him. Syd Barrett died from pancreatic cancer in 2006 at the age of 60. But his echoes are undeniable. They waft about all the music his ...

Few bands from the last 60 years have made as big of an imprint ... album brandishing a triangle on the cover. Started by Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright in 1965, Pink ...