The Madcap dies
Syd Barrett, possibly the single most notorious embodiment of all that what was great, awful, brilliant, insane, beautiful and ugly about the psychedelic movement of the late ’60s, has finally died. I say finally because if you’ve ever read much about him, it’s fairly obvious that he’d been living on borrowed time since sometime in 1967. Even though just about only notable things he had done since releasing “The Madcap Laughs” was to show up during the recording of “Wish You Were Here” looking extremely overweight and bald, it was clear that the rest of Pink Floyd hadn’t forgotten about him. If you saw Roger Waters on tour in 1999 or Pink Floyd’s Live8 performance, you would have seen/heard the tributes to him.
LONDON - Syd Barrett, the troubled genius who co-founded Pink Floyd but spent his last years in reclusive anonymity, has died, a spokeswoman for the band said Tuesday. He was 60.
See you on the Dark Side of the Moon, Syd.
