(Roger) Syd Barrett - Cambridge Honours Syd

The city of Cambridge commemorates Syd...
Syd Barrett: Cambridge honours its 'Crazy Diamond' - BBC News »

 

Wish i was there

 

Great. Always good to see creative artists like Syd Barrett getting recognition for their work and not just 'druggie' and "mentally ill" labels by normies in the normie world.

 

That's excellent.

 

New release of Syd's solo albums. Supposedly remastered - no word that I can find on bonus tracks or lack of same.

The Madcap Laughs

Barrett

Opel

 

Nice--I cued up Madcap Laughs recently having not heard it in a long time--what a wonderful and haunting album.

 

And again:


Shine on, Syd – Cambridge Pink Floyd star to get blue plaque in his honour
Tribute will be unveiled today as part of BBC Music Day

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Cambridge rock legend Syd Barrett is set to receive another posthumous plaudit.

The Pink Floyd founder member, who died in 2006, will have a blue plaque in his name unveiled in the city today (Thursday June 15).

The plaques commemorate people or places who have influenced the musical landscape across the country, and Syd's will be installed outside the Cambridge School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University.


After growing up in Cambridge, the musician was a student there before going on to found the famous rock band.


Syd in Cambridge in 1965
The plaque is one of 47 awarded as part of BBC Music Day, a nationwide celebration of music in all its forms.

Listeners to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, which will be broadcasting live at the unveiling ceremony, cast their votes for a number of suggested recipients, and then BBC representatives and music industry experts whittled down the names.

Syd’s will be unveiled by members of his family including his sister and brothers. The event will be live on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire between noon and 3pm, on Jeremy Sallis’s Lunchtime Live show.


Syd pictured cycling in Cambridge
An artwork in the musician's honour was also installed last year at the Corn Exchange.

David Harvey, editor of BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, said: “Syd Barrett is one of the UK's most iconic musicians of our time. It’s a real privilege to be honouring a true music legend and we’re going to do it in style, with a live broadcast from Anglia Ruskin University.

"We’ll hear from a singer-songwriter who, like Syd, studies at the School of Art and from a former band member who played with him at his last ever gig at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge. It will be a fantastic tribute to Cambridgeshire’s ‘Crazy Diamond’.


Tributes after Syd Barratt's death in St Margaret's Square, Cambridge
“There will also be musicians placed across Cambridge in key places who will play at the timed moment. It’s going to be a brilliant day.”

David Holdsworth, Controller of BBC English Regions, added: “It is hugely prestigious to receive a British Plaque Trust Blue Plaque - usually only around two are awarded each year.”

Watch out for a live interview with members of Syd's family on the News Facebook site at lunchtime.
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More than 100 people gathered in Cambridge to honour one of the city's greatest musical sons, Syd Barrett.

As part of BBC Music Day (Thursday June 15), a Blue Plaque was unveiled in the name of the Pink Floyd legend at Anglia Ruskin University's School of Art, where he was a student.

Among those there were Syd's sister Rosemary Breen, who told the News her brother, who died in Cambridge in 2006, would have "loved" seeing his name honoured.



Rosemary Breen does the unveiling

She said: "It's an amazing thing, and he would have loved it. The whole family are so proud of him.

"He had great charisma, and even though he's not with us any more, that charisma is still there."

Syd - real name Roger Keith Barrett - shot to stardom in the late Sixties with Pink Floyd, but then quit the band and came back to Cambridge.



Syd would have loved the plaque, his sister said (Picture: David Johnson)

Rosemary said: "He decided that being in Pink Floyd wasn't fun any more, and he wanted peace and quiet, to relax, and to paint.

"He was a brilliant artist - that's where his true love lay, and he would have pursued that if he hadn't been sidetracked by the music."

The plaque was unveiled during a live broadcast by BBC Radio Cambridgeshire's Jeremy Sallis.



Picture: David Johnson

Other members of the Barrett family were there, together with students, fans and the media.

Syd was born in 1946 and met fellow band member Roger Waters at primary school in Cambridge and Dave Gilmour as a teenager. By the time Syd attended the Cambridge School of Art, he was already well known on the local music scene.

The plaque in Cambridge was one of nearly 50 honouring musicians installed around the country yesterday.