What starts as a psychedelic rock album quickly becomes the story of a band trying desperately to survive its own collapse. By the late 1960s, Pink Floyd had already become underground stars thanks to ...

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 ...

Using the broadest brush strokes, Pink Floyd became the UK’s first major psychedelic band thanks to their visionary leader Syd Barrett, then the world’s biggest prog rock band after they cut him loose ...

What begins as a tribute to Syd Barrett slowly unfolds into one of the most personal albums Pink Floyd ever recorded. As the band struggled with fame, exhaustion, and emotional distance after Dark ...

“I was passionately in love with the writing of Syd Barrett from Pink Floyd,” revealed David Bowie in the 2007 BBC documentary Seven Ages of Rock. “There was something slightly not-quite-with-us about ...

The most stable line-up in Gong’s history on latest album Bright Spirit, its spiritual insight and an old guitar style borrowed from Syd Barrett ...

Barrett enjoyed the benefits of Pink Floyd’s success for roughly a year before the band moved on without him. The Mapcap received royalty checks for his early contributions but had nothing to do with ...

In 1975, Pink Floyd released their pinnacle, certified gold record, Wish You Were Here. Five decades later, the spellbinding set is receiving special attention through the arrival of Shine On You ...

Pink Floyd fans looking to own a bit of related history may be interested to learn that the orange and blue floorboards found in the room where Syd Barrett was photographed for the cover of his 1968 ...

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 ...

'Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)' and 'Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd' join a vibrant crop of recent documentaries that illuminate the epochal music scenes ...