Syd Barrett

Syd Barrett is best known for being the founder of and original creative genius behind the legendary band Pink Floyd , who had tragically slipped into insanity by the late 60s, catalyzed from taking dangerously huge amounts of LSD. Born Roger Keith Barrett into an upper-middle class family on January 6, 1946, in Cambridge, England, he was the youngest of five siblings. He had an early aptitude for painting, and it was during the early 60s, while enrolled at Camberwell Art School in London, that he became heavily interested in music, primarily the blues. He joined his first band in 1965, which …