Crazy Diamond: how LSD ruined Pink Floyd s fragile genius Syd Barrett
19 Feb, 2021 01:28 AM
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Syd Barrett, far right, during his tenure with Pink Floyd. Photo / Getty Images
Daily Telegraph UK
By: Neil McCormick
Syd Barrett is the lost boy of British pop. A dazzling original who saw and heard differently to everyone else, he went through the looking glass in search of his psychedelic vision, and never came back. Barrett s story is a tragic saga of glory and madness, part daring adventure, part cautionary tale. By the age of 23, he had changed music forever – and it had destroyed him.