A love of Syd Barrett's music was actually one of the few things that the always-fractious Reid brothers agreed upon during their teenage years. And, in a roundabout fashion, it was this shared ...

Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett was a legend, and he was pretty forthright about the songs and artists that influenced him as a musician. Let’s take a quick look at just four of Syd Barrett’s favorite songs, ...

“Vegetable Man” was considered for the band’s second album A Saucerful of Secrets and was nearly released as a single, the B-side to another unreleased track, “Scream Thy Last Scream.” Yet, both were ...

You will no doubt have read the obituaries for Syd Barrett, who died of cancer on July 7 2006. You will have read about how he was the original guiding light of Pink Floyd, who wrote, sang and played ...

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 ...

"Apples and Oranges" was supposed to keep Pink Floyd's commercial momentum going. Instead, it was the death knell for Syd Barrett's tenure in the band. Their No. 6 U.K. smash debut The Piper at the ...

Long considered a footnote to casual fans in the story of Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett is finally having his tale told some 55 years after he was unceremoniously pushed out of the band he co-founded with a ...

"He launched them into space." Mercury Studios has launched their official trailer for a music history doc film titled in full: Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd. This look ...

Revered British songwriter Robyn Hitchcock performs the songs of avowed cornerstone influence and Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett at two special events held to mark the iconic psychedelic rocker's ...

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 ...

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.

‘Have You Got it Yet?‘ features new interviews with Syd’s Pink Floyd bandmates Roger Waters, David Gilmour, and Nick Mason, and was co-directed by Hipgnosis‘ Storm Thorgerson. The Bangles’ Susanna ...