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TV tonight: the trippy story of Pink Floyd’s lost member Syd Barrett

An immersive documentary about the band’s founder, who left the group to live in solitude. Plus: more explosive drama in Traces. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

“He was one of the most crucial figures of the ’60s. Much of the underground was his invention”: the forgotten story of John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, the man who invented psychedelic London

He helped launch Pink Floyd’s career and got arrested with the Rolling Stones – John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins was the King Of The 1960s Underground

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Cool new prog music you have to hear this week from Big Big Train, Exploring Birdsong, Midas Fall and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog music to check out from Caleb Landry Jones, Circuline, Dave McLean, Abstrakt Lake and more...

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“A unique, sometimes unsettling experience… His baritone gives the songs a shade of unorthodoxy which goes beyond typical English hippie eccentricity”: Kevin Ayers’ Joy Of A Toy (Remastered Gatefold Vinyl Edition)

Syd Barrett’s contribution is absent in an edition that sticks religiously to 1969 template

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How Syd Barrett cast a spell that lasted throughout Pink Floyd's career

Pink Floyd are synonymous with Roger Waters and David Gilmour, but Syd Barrett remains the lost genius at the heart of the band

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“It was when we knew Roger Waters wasn’t going to be part of anything we did, but before he’d officially left. He had us trapped in limbo. I was putting my toe in the water”: David Gilmour’s solo career

Despite saying it’s less complicated to work alone, David Gilmour’s association with Pink Floyd means he never wandered far, or for long, from the band

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Highgate house where Pink Floyd was formed available to rent for £12,000pcm

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Richard Wright and Syd Barrett all lived at the house on Stanhope Gardens in the sixties

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‘Is my play still relevant? I don’t care!’ Tom Stoppard on his Gaza quandary and reviving Rock ’n’ Roll

As his Velvet Revolution drama returns, the great writer talks about his mounting Israel-Gaza uncertainties, the epiphanies he has in every hot shower – and our one-star ‘corker’ review of The Crown

The Guardian - UK

In late 1967 Pink Floyd stayed at Alice Cooper's house before appearing on American Bandstand: on both occasions Syd Barrett completely baffled his hosts

While in California to promote their Apples And Oranges single, Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett began to show signs of the behaviour that would lead to his departure from the band

Louder

Roger Waters ‘spent 30 minutes reading from unpublished memoir’ during ‘awkward’ London show

Controversial musician apparently scolded hecklers and ‘ranted about Julian Assange’ during performance described by critics as ‘uncomfortable’

The Independent UK

"Loath to actually leave Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett made it so they had to chuck him out. And none of them ever got over it": Storm Thorgerson's documentary on the Pink Floyd founder reviewed

Have You Got It Yet? The Story Of Syd Barrett And Pink Floyd reviewed

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"People were very down on us after Syd left. Everyone thought Syd was all the group had": In the wake of the worldwide success of The Dark Side Of The Moon, David Gilmour remembered when Pink Floyd were written off as yesterday's men

Pink Floyd's management weren't the only ones who thought the group were doomed after Syd Barrett's exit

Louder

“For me, Wish You Were Here is the most satisfying album. I really love it. I'd rather listen to that than Dark Side of the Moon”: David Gilmour opens up on the creative tension that built Pink Floyd's classic records

In this classic GW interview, the Stratocaster icon discusses the “egocentric megalomaniacal tension” that shaped Dark Side of the Moon, how he constructed the Comfortably Numb solo, and the time he used a mic stand leg as a slide

Guitar World

"Syd Barrett was absolutely unbelievable": Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page on Pink Floyd's "very, very cool" early years and Syd Barrett's "futuristic vision"

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page was hugely impressed by Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd

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"It connects with me in a way that I just can't describe, creating a very special environment that no other record can achieve": Chris Cornell on the Pink Floyd album he loved the most

Late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell discovered his favourite Pink Floyd album in his old landlord's record collection

Louder

“We probably did about as much as we could have... but I have a regret or two”: Pink Floyd's David Gilmour reflects on what he might have done differently with Syd Barrett

Pink Floyd's David Gilmour looks back on his relationship with Syd Barrett in new documentary

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“He didn’t like to be reminded of the past… he went to his sister’s to watch a documentary about him and Pink Floyd, but left, complaining it was too loud”: Syd Barrett was more than just another mad genius

The psychedelic visionary just wasn’t interested in his own legacy after abandoning the music industry in 1972 – but he never stopped creating

The Guardian - US

‘Nobody really knew what happened’: tracing the life of Syd Barrett

A new documentary looks back on the highs and lows of the mysterious Pink Floyd co-founder, troubled but too often misunderstood

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An official Syd Barrett YouTube channel has been launched

The Syd Barrett Estate has launched an official YouTube channel for the Pink Floyd founder - first up are new videos for Terrapin, Dominoes and Dark Globe

Louder

"It was like Dorothy landing in Oz" - what happened when Alice Cooper went to Los Angeles

Once upon a time, a garage band from Phoenix moved to LA and became Alice Cooper, with a little help from Frank Zappa, a dark alter ego and... West Side Story

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Watch the trailer for the new Syd Barrett movie

Have You Got It Yet? The Story Of Syd Barrett And Pink Floyd opens in Everyman Cinemas in May

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Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd went on tour: knife-throwing, guitar smashing and acid breakdowns followed

Syd Barrett was catatonic. Jimi Hendrix was encouraging Keith Emerson to throw knives at him. Lemmy was one of the roadies. Welcome to the cosmic variety show

What Hi-Fi?

7 best Pink Floyd tracks to test your hi-fi system

What could be better than a top hi-fi system playing the British prog rock legends' finest work?

Louder

Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett once believed that Alice Cooper's cornflakes were singing and dancing for his entertainment

When Pink Floyd came to stay at Alice Cooper's house in Venice Beach in 1968, Syd Barrett was in "a different headspace" Cooper recalls

ABC News

Pink Floyd's enigmatic, record-breaking album The Dark Side Of The Moon turns 50

The iconic cover art, the boundary-pushing sonics, that thing where it supposedly synchronises with The Wizard Of Oz — Pink Floyd's legendary album is one of the most successful releases of all time.

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