Pink Floyd et Syd Barrett - La croisée des destins

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In the spring of 1967, Pink Floyd’s psychedelic pop emerged from the London underground. Driven by Syd Barrett’s unbridled innovations, the Barrett-era Floyd seemed destined for greatness. Yet, in early 1968, just after David Gilmour joined the band, Roger Waters, Rick Wright and Nick Mason cast their frontman aside. As vulnerable as he was unmanageable, crushed by LSD, rejecting the demands of his rise to fame in the name of his artistic ideal, Syd was sacked from his own band.
An episode etched into the band’s very origins, it haunts the quartet’s memory even as they achieve global success. Starting from the premise that Barrett’s breakdown shaped Pink Floyd, this book analyses in detail the dynamics of their relationship and shows how the former’s tragic fate determined the latter’s artistic evolution.

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• Syd Barrett 1946 – 2006 · United Kingdom
• Pink Floyd 1964 – 1996 · United Kingdom

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