I found this sequence of photos to be incredibly moving as we see the light leaving his eyes midway through 67. Such a beautifully fragile, extraordinarily talented man.
@@johnnygraham4004 Maybe im missing something but there are shots where he does look like that but later on hes smiling and his eyes look normal again to me?
@@Peter-k2j yes he goes in and out, is focused and then loses it again, Nick Mason mentioned this, But in general he lost a large chunk of his presence and personality by August, this according to Rick Wright in his interviews.
people say he looked unrecognizable past 1973 or 74 but the photo of him in the 80s is exactly what he would have looked like regardless of mental illness, he looks well in that and has his trademark smile and adorable eyes
Interesting comment, I think that's one of the reasons why he's still fascinating to many people, he never seemed to be posing, and was pretty genuine throughout; authentic. Thanks Cosmic!
@@johnnygraham4004 Thanks for the pictures! .. Syd Barrett was first and foremost an artist, second more remembered as the mastermind behind the early "Pink Floyd Sound".. it was his Band and he named it, this second bit would be something he distanced himself from for the rest of his life as he lived as a recluse not to bothered in Cambridge where he was born.
I'm lucky to live in near Cambridge it's my home .. Syd "Roger" Barrett was just too good for this world at the end he should and will be considered a great fine artist who .. just happened to form the most famous Group in the World ..
@@johnnygraham4004 Thanks for the photos .The one with the stripey t shirt -the same as the one where hes playing mirror disc guitar sitting down by the mike ? I think news of the world took that and their manager jenner said' come tomorrow as they are under the influence'(syd) the next day syd had a waistcoat on but along with donavon the move ect they was in news of the 🌎 for wrong reason s.
It’s a shame Syd became better known for his illness (which started before Pink Floyd) than for anything else. Yes, he was very ill on occasions, but he got dropped by his friends in the band (gradually) due to his unreliability (unreliability is a killer in a band). And he always (always!) wanted a quiet life. Many early interviews make that clear. The good news is he spent the rest of his life pursuing his first love of painting, and he seems to have had little problem getting the train from Cambridge to London on his own to attend exhibitions at the Royal Academy and elsewhere. I’m sure there were many days when he struggled, but equally there is lots of evidence that there were many days when he did not. Ask anyone at the academy to describe him and they all say the same thing: “quiet”. I lived and worked in Cambridge in the 1980’s and would see him occasionally clutching programme etc from art exhibitions. I never summoned up enough courage to say more than ‘hello’ to him. I couldn’t even bring myself to say ‘Hello Syd’ as it seemed too presumptuous. He seemed happy and healthy on the outside. Always clean well groomed and well dressed. And smiling. My uncle knew Syd as they played on the same bill a couple of times. He liked Syd more than Waters and Gilmore, who he thought were very ambitious. Syd was a beautiful young man, but IMHO he wasn’t cut out for the rigours of being a rock star, and not just because of his mental health issues. He just didn’t want it. Thank you for a great video.
Thanks Jack, very interesting, I like all of Syd's music and see him as a great talent, in the videos I'm just trying look and discover. I do think people can learn from what happened to him, I have no agenda one way or the other (I like the later Pink Floyd equally.) Thanks for commenting.
i feel like he might have been a big fan of john lennon in the mid 60s given his haircuts and glasses syd wore around the same time john was wearing them. lennon wore those tinted glasses in 1966
What a curious fascination people have with this man. I think people’s intrigue with this man was/is his physical attractiveness. Perhaps even beauty… along with his deep quiet. But where would all this intrigue be had he been ugly and repulsive? This all says much more about US than it does about Barrett. Most of the time, he wasn’t even mentally in the room.
@@christopherp.hitchens3902 True, we place a premium on good looks, but methinks it's more a problem for females, and that does rankle. Roger made some incredible music, and therein lies most people's interest. Try composing just one extraordinary and gorgeous song sometime -- it ain't easy.
Yes true, in the summer months after the BBC broadcast, he starts to come apart and in the fall he seems to be just hanging on/showing up. (to my eye) Thanks Jp!
He was a intelligent person, who studied fine arts, and then he started composing music....now, according to this friends, what he started doing next, was unthinkable
It's good to learn that he still had a life he could enjoy after Pink Floyd! And that it was not as tragic as it is usually depicted. Very much appreciate your testimony! 👏👏
Watch the recent interview with his sister Rosemary. She says it was very sad, and that he had no friends, and that he was hard to handle. Not much to enjoy. A picture can lie.
Bravo, very tasteful approach. As the timeline progressed I felt myself anticipating some sad pics looming from the mid-70s era but thankfully you skipped the infamous Abbey Road '75 photo and instead used brighter pics of Syd smiling in the early 80s. Classy piece of work Johnny Graham
Thanks Yes I mean, everyone has bad episodes in their lives, why amplify them, I was glad to see he became healthier later, but just chose to live privately, Thanks Nick, much appreciated comment :)
Yes it is , very nicely done . Uplifting even . We don’t really know what anyone goes thru in life, and it aint all bad . Very nicevid - i agree . Regards
Syd was absolutely brilliant 👍🏻💯🎸 musican and a artist.. still my favourite no matter what..and pink floyd, my second favourite band..(Beatles) #1 nice video, cheers mate.
Wow, I remember that photo of him at the Pink Floyd session for “shine on” I think it was in 1974. Everybody talks about how bad he looked then and how “unrecognizable” he was (made Rodger waters and Gilmour cry) but in these he looks just like himself when he was a kid. I don’t see the dark lifeless eyes that so many documentaries try to tell you he had post Floyd. Thank you for positing ☮️
If you search his (few) photos of 1975 it's clearly worst than these, he is shabby, almost bald, he doesn't even have eyebrows. Glad to see these other pictures where he looks much better.
Thanks Juxta, I had to do a spur-of-moment edit at the end so it lost 7 seconds at the very end (I had to use the youtube internal editor which is tricky) so I may fix the ending and/or do a slightly longer version. Thanks!
Not many pictures from the mid seventies, well... apart from 'that' one that's not in this collection. But it's good to see him looking healthier and smiling at the end there, after what I imagine was a rough few years in his life.
Really nice compilation, and timeline , real eye opener. Very nice job 👍. Amazing. One thing i noted was its not so black and white as everyone seems to recall (?) just a general trend towards a kind of reinvention of himself .. we are all playing a role - its not what we ARE . Our essential being remains untouched. Itsnice to seehim happy in the later shots . Nothing between 71 and 78 .. I got Mick Rock’s psychedelic renegades - an intimate book of photos of Syd .. Roger i should say. Fabulous book with extraordinary pictures . Ive also noticed that he never looks the same in any two pictures- every shot is a completely different expression. Obvious you may think, but some folk look similar in every picture of them . I find this fascinating. Good job 👍, Nice one .
The picture of him on May 14, 1967 was when he and Roger Waters were interviewed by Hans Keller. That interview is out here on TH-cam. Syd was his bright, shiny self. In the interview, he was fully intact. Other pictures prior to that may have been while under the influence of some kind of drug. He was intact May 1967. Piper At The Gates Of Dawn was released August 5, 1967. They were in a recording studio next door to The Beatles at Abbey Road Studio in June 1967 to record the album while Sgt. Pepper was being recorded. They met the Beatles. Nothing seemed abnormal. Syd's "lost weekend" occurred after that. Keep that in mind while you watch the progression of time.
Fascinating to see these pictures one after another in this format. It looks to me like something goes wrong midway through 1967. Nice to see that in the last picture he at least looked happy and healthy.
This is fascinating. Interestingly, in the John Edgington interview with Joe Boyd, Joe recalls finding Syd in a gutter “at the end of May” (67) and being told by his girlfriend he had been tripping for days. Joe says that’s the first time he really became worried about Syd and then shortly after that coming face to face with Syd at UFO and Syd staring straight through him. He recalls that being the first time Syd just stood on stage. Equally, Dave Gilmour recalls having seen Syd before heading out for his gigs in France in 67. He then recalls coming back after a few weeks to buy some new mics and linking up with Syd at the See Emily Play recording sessions. He mentioned it was a “big shock” due to the total transformation in Syd who didn’t appear to recognise him. See Emily was recorded on 21st May 1967. Putting that together with these photos, you can see the moment the lights went out. The May 14 67 photo is Syd at the Hans Keller interview (“why does it have to be so terribly loud”?) and you can see the warmth and energy in his face. In the photos thereafter, he just has an intense stare - the warmth is gone.
Yes very well put, People have come on to argue about this, but the friends and fellow musicians who were there, saw the entire thing unfold, and have told the story. People such as June Child and Duggie Fields were right there and have said, unfortunately, that Syd took trip upon trip, and I think myself that Syd's main purpose was to experiment and be free to express himself, and as soon as that was curbed, he withdrew. Thanks for commenting naish!
His lyrics on Piper portray a man feeling social isolation and loss of sense of self. I'd sure like ti hear what he was like a littke earlier. He was already a lost soul on Pink Floyd's first album. Btw, 'Which one's Pink?" SYD, that's who!
Tenia el destino marcado, Virginia....estas personas super inteligentes consideradas genios como Barrett , llevan siempre alguna secuela interna....y lo peor que pudo haber hecho el, es haber abusado del acido lisergico...ya que estas drogas producen alucinaciones......lo que John Lennon y Paul Mc Cartney en sus ultimos 3 discos que grabaron , como el album blanco, Abbey Road y Let it be, tambien consumian LSD, pero a un nivel moderado.....entonces EN EL CASO DE BARRETT, se le potencio el problema de esquizofrenia, que segun algunos dicen por ahi, el ya tenia un cierto grado de esquizofrenia antes de volverse loco........segun los especialistas, casi todas ls personas con alto coheficiente inlectual, se terminan aislando, y acaban haciendo lo que no es adecuado....y mas aun, si sufrian de alguna adiccion como el ,y ante una droga letal .
Боже, какой красивый человек! И его красота даже больше внутренняя нежели внешняя. А какой взгляд!.. нигде не увидела в его глазах ни болезни, ни сумасшествия, только невероятно глубокую печаль и невыразимую боль. Еще вижу выражение тревоги и, даже , порой, испуга. Нигде не увидела пустоты в глазах - да, есть некоторый ,, уход на другую сторону,, - в любом случае, взгляд направлен в глубину себя, вовнутрь ( возможно, поэтому он кажется пустым и остекленевшим). В некоторых кадрах в глазах виден свет, чистота и детскость какая-то... просто невероятная харизма, гений, разумеется... Очень точно подобрана музыка, можно сказать, Syd весь соткан из этой музыки. Послушайте еще Giya Kancheli ,, Mourned By The Wind,, ... очень похоже. Пусть россыпью звезд вечно сияет твой космос, великий Syd Barrett! Низкий поклон за Вашу работу, Jonny!
@@GeorgieWood765 I don't touch any of these to alter them in form and I leave the outlines intact, I don't play with the sharpness either, which I think, makes some pictures look fake. If someone did alter this, they did a 100% great job, because I can't detect any seams :)
I've found the original and it is a real photo by Janette Beckman, someone purchased the HD original and cropped it at a portrait (it's unaltered)www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/photo-of-musician-and-artist-syd-barrett-formerly-of-pink-news-photo/85030213/license
The late 70s/80's photos give a bit more context to his post recording artist life; I'd only seen the '75 Polaroids from EMI where he looks like Divine out of drag; Apparently that was just a phase
The poor man had to answer his door saying “Syd doesn’t live here anymore” to every person who knocked. He just wanted to be Roger Barrett. The smiles in the pictures of him later in life were ingenious of his happiness with his family. He wasn’t a casualty of the era, he was a prisoner who escaped it. He earned his freedom, but sadly he always hid from his own identity.
I want to make it clear that what I say here is only dumb "theories" based on my love for the image of the man I've got, based on all the different information I have run into. But he seemed to go from being here and alive with that sparkle in his eye to completely gone, way deep in his head. Dead eyes. And then back to the present, and so on. It seems he never "lost it" but was drifting in and out of bad and good mental states; he clearly had mental problems that might have been pushed forward by his extant drug use. Anyhow the man should not be pried into (epecially not his later years where he retreated from the public eye) but loved for the wonderful music he was able to bring to us.
Obviously no one will ever know what was in the mind of this very creative guy. Luckily, we’ll forever have his music and lyrics. Honestly, the first PF record taken by itself, is enough of an example of how talented Syd was at the time. The mystery is how quickly, the ability to harness it, slipped away.
7th July, 2006 Syd Barrett took his leave from this plane, to 'See Emily Play'. Sometimes the rest they seek can only be obtained, when they brush the dust of this Earth from their feet. RIP Syd & thanks for sharing your thoughts, before they were stolen from you 😊
He was beautiful. Very expressive eyes. You see him off the drugs by the early 70s given the normal pupil size. Most likely medicated once he joined a normal life with his Mom and sister. Gilmore sent him money up until his death.
You've been making great videos fella, I'm really amazed with all this content. Thank you very much man. You may enjoy my music as well, Syd's my biggest inspiration and thats my contribution to bringe this atmosphere that Syd has dug. Thank you.
I think getting kicked out of the pink floyd is what killed his soul. The drugs he used before getting kicked out were just recreational, he was experimenting like most people were back then, the guys from floyd were way to tough on him, I think they wanted to change the musical direction of the band, so they used his "drug problem" as an excuse to kick him out. The drugs he took after pink floyd were just an escape and a copping mechanism to try to ease the pain and sadness for what he had lost, drugs probably contributed to the deterioration of is mental health, but sadness was the main cause of his undoing. Rip legend. I say all this cause I know the pain, I have lost so much in my life that I totally get syd's situation, what he went thru, I also used to be more outgoing but i changed, life changed me, sadness changed me, people's betrayal changed me, so im not like that anymore. And now I find myself debating the meaning of everything thay I used to think was important, fame, money and all that is useless or maybe not I don't know, i guess I'm just not as inclined on chasing those things anymore.
ah no. thats not what happened. he was getting on stage and standing motionless with his hands by his sides for 40 minutes while the band played on. he wasnt "just experimenting like most people were back then". he took acid day after day after day. it fried his brain. he was unable to play music live, communicate or be reliable in any way. they even tried keeping him in the band and were a 5-piece for the month of January 1968. Roger & Dave tried to get him to a shrink; to get him the help he so desperately needed. he wouldn't stay or accept any help. if you think that they concocted a plan to get rid of him because they wanted to change the musical direction of the band, you are utterly nuts @mexicanpepe4life
Then you know 💩 about Pink Floyd’s history then….cuz he was SUCH A WRECK for so long…..THEN they kicked him out ….but that he was only staring and standing there blankly onstage for MONTHS AND MONTHS….so yea NOPE you’re wrong….Itmwasnt getting kicked out that made him lose is mind. Just wow at the ignorance…..
great set of photos I muted the sound though I don't like the atmosphere I don't think it reflects the images well except for some of the 1967 ones, it's nice to see he looked well in many of the 70s shots and not as stressed as the hectic late 60s period, it's strange because that Shine On You Crazy diamond story about him appearing doesn't seem to reflect how he looked around that time, he looked the same as he ever did except for thinning hair
Cool vid. A couple Ive not seen before! Surprised you didnt include the ones of him in 1975 where he just turned up whilst Floyd were recording. 'Ive been eating lots of lamb chops'...
It’s quite shocking to see the gradual changes in Syd’s face throughout 1967 as his mental health deteriorated. Sadly, Syd was in his early 20s when this all took place, which is the time many young males develop Schizophrenia, with or without the use of recreational drugs or psychedelics. It’s very sad. Having worked in the mental health field, I’ve seen this progression first hand.
This reminds me of my brother. His mental decline was very similar. So heart breaking. The amount of drugs my brother took could kill a horse. He is in a care home now. A former shell of himself, he was also an artist and very funny.😢
I wonder if he ever saw Pink Floyd the wall movie? He must have, i watched it while tripping and took a bad trip, jumped out a 4 story window woke up three days later in hospital, I watched it in a room with five strangers and one friend, i lost it, i did watch it while clean but it was not the movie i saw in that house as i became lead role, strange as F
some dates are off, the second to last photo of syd with his sister that you have dated may 1981 was (according to the syd barrett website) from 1978 overall good video shows the progression of his mental illness but also how he had happiness and peace after PF
Increíble como las drogas acaban con alguien muy talentoso y la destruye por completo tenia todo para disfrutar de su vida que triste y aun así hoy en dia los jóvenes no toman en cuenta eso esta a la alza los jóvenes enfermos de drogas.
Like the vast amount of indigenous British Syd was likely to have been a mix of Germanic/Celt, nothing more exotic than that. There are millions of us with Syds ethnic colouring and features. Obvious music examples George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Robert Smith, Ian McCuloch, Keith Richards etc etc etc endless list....
This is what happened to many people back in the 60’s who took too much LSD .. Some people it didn’t have any real long term damaging affect ,, but others it basically transformed their brain from a normal human mind to a Del Monte pineapple 🤷♂️
So btw Sept 67 and Oct 67 he took the trip that he never came back from. Don't be fooled by the pic Oct 1st as it's retouched to add focus to his eyes.
I found this sequence of photos to be incredibly moving as we see the light leaving his eyes midway through 67. Such a beautifully fragile, extraordinarily talented man.
Thanks Yes! that's one of the reasons I did it, was to see the steady progression, and one can see it, by August 6th he's gone blank Thanks Mark!
I noticed that instantly yes
@@johnnygraham4004 Maybe im missing something but there are shots where he does look like that but later on hes smiling and his eyes look normal again to me?
@@Peter-k2j yes he goes in and out, is focused and then loses it again, Nick Mason mentioned this, But in general he lost a large chunk of his presence and personality by August, this according to Rick Wright in his interviews.
Rick Wright "there was a complete difference, he's still looking the same, but he was somewhere else."
The last picture in 82 says, yes I'm still here, but please leave me alone.
haha Yes!
people say he looked unrecognizable past 1973 or 74 but the photo of him in the 80s is exactly what he would have looked like regardless of mental illness, he looks well in that and has his trademark smile and adorable eyes
True
Exactly, that's what I thought. Over weight, shaven eye brows etc etc. After the mid seventies he looked nothing like these descriptions.. very odd
Syd Barrett was very photogenic throughout, he never understood all the interest in him, now that's a real genius
Interesting comment, I think that's one of the reasons why he's still fascinating to many people, he never seemed to be posing, and was pretty genuine throughout; authentic. Thanks Cosmic!
@@johnnygraham4004 Thanks for the pictures! .. Syd Barrett was first and foremost an artist, second more remembered as the mastermind behind the early "Pink Floyd Sound".. it was his Band and he named it, this second bit would be something he distanced himself from for the rest of his life as he lived as a recluse not to bothered in Cambridge where he was born.
I'm lucky to live in near Cambridge it's my home .. Syd "Roger" Barrett was just too good for this world at the end he should and will be considered a great fine artist who .. just happened to form the most famous Group in the World ..
@@johnnygraham4004 Thanks for the photos .The one with the stripey t shirt -the same as the one where hes playing mirror disc guitar sitting down by the mike ? I think news of the world took that and their manager jenner said' come tomorrow as they are under the influence'(syd) the next day syd had a waistcoat on but along with donavon the move ect they was in news of the 🌎 for wrong reason s.
@@cosmicretrouniverse have you seen him?
Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far, Shine on Syd ❤...
It’s a shame Syd became better known for his illness (which started before Pink Floyd) than for anything else. Yes, he was very ill on occasions, but he got dropped by his friends in the band (gradually) due to his unreliability (unreliability is a killer in a band). And he always (always!) wanted a quiet life. Many early interviews make that clear. The good news is he spent the rest of his life pursuing his first love of painting, and he seems to have had little problem getting the train from Cambridge to London on his own to attend exhibitions at the Royal Academy and elsewhere. I’m sure there were many days when he struggled, but equally there is lots of evidence that there were many days when he did not. Ask anyone at the academy to describe him and they all say the same thing: “quiet”.
I lived and worked in Cambridge in the 1980’s and would see him occasionally clutching programme etc from art exhibitions. I never summoned up enough courage to say more than ‘hello’ to him. I couldn’t even bring myself to say ‘Hello Syd’ as it seemed too presumptuous. He seemed happy and healthy on the outside. Always clean well groomed and well dressed. And smiling.
My uncle knew Syd as they played on the same bill a couple of times. He liked Syd more than Waters and Gilmore, who he thought were very ambitious.
Syd was a beautiful young man, but IMHO he wasn’t cut out for the rigours of being a rock star, and not just because of his mental health issues. He just didn’t want it.
Thank you for a great video.
Thanks Jack, very interesting, I like all of Syd's music and see him as a great talent, in the videos I'm just trying look and discover. I do think people can learn from what happened to him, I have no agenda one way or the other (I like the later Pink Floyd equally.) Thanks for commenting.
i feel like he might have been a big fan of john lennon in the mid 60s given his haircuts and glasses syd wore around the same time john was wearing them. lennon wore those tinted glasses in 1966
Thanks for sharing, this short comment answers a lot of the questions I've had the last 30 years.
What a curious fascination people have with this man. I think people’s intrigue with this man was/is his physical attractiveness. Perhaps even beauty… along with his deep quiet. But where would all this intrigue be had he been ugly and repulsive? This all says much more about US than it does about Barrett. Most of the time, he wasn’t even mentally in the room.
@@christopherp.hitchens3902 True, we place a premium on good looks, but methinks it's more a problem for females, and that does rankle. Roger made some incredible music, and therein lies most people's interest. Try composing just one extraordinary and gorgeous song sometime -- it ain't easy.
The difference between May, 1967 throughout that summer and into the autumn is stark. You can see something broke or went horribly awry.
Yes true, in the summer months after the BBC broadcast, he starts to come apart and in the fall he seems to be just hanging on/showing up. (to my eye) Thanks Jp!
He was a intelligent person, who studied fine arts, and then he started composing music....now, according to this friends, what he started doing next, was unthinkable
He still looks well in the last photo. At home and away from what he left in London.
Very good sequence. Heartbreaking but still... Thanks.
The two photos from May 14th 67 at 3:40 encapsulate the line " You shone like the sun" to me. An emotional trip for sure. Thanks for sharing these!
Always love Piper at the gates of dawn ..Rest in peaceSIR SYD
It's good to learn that he still had a life he could enjoy after Pink Floyd! And that it was not as tragic as it is usually depicted. Very much appreciate your testimony! 👏👏
Watch the recent interview with his sister Rosemary. She says it was very sad, and that he had no friends, and that he was hard to handle. Not much to enjoy. A picture can lie.
@@dreamangus1505Go read My lovably ordinary brother Syd
Tim Willis - The Times - July 16, 2006... Syd Barrett. Net
Bravo, very tasteful approach.
As the timeline progressed I felt myself anticipating some sad pics looming from the mid-70s era but thankfully you skipped the infamous Abbey Road '75 photo and instead used brighter pics of Syd smiling in the early 80s.
Classy piece of work Johnny Graham
Thanks Yes I mean, everyone has bad episodes in their lives, why amplify them, I was glad to see he became healthier later, but just chose to live privately, Thanks Nick, much appreciated comment :)
Yes it is , very nicely done . Uplifting even . We don’t really know what anyone goes thru in life, and it aint all bad . Very nicevid - i agree . Regards
Would have been good to put the one from Gilmore's wedding, he doesn't nearly look as bad but it does illustrate the progression more truthfully
Syd was absolutely brilliant 👍🏻💯🎸 musican and a artist.. still my favourite no matter what..and pink floyd, my second favourite band..(Beatles) #1 nice video, cheers mate.
He was such a good looking guy !!!! Wow ❤❤❤
the September 11 1967 pic...black holes in the sky indeed
Mesmerising and haunting RIP Syd.
Thanks for these chronological pics of Roger "Syd" Barrett! They are good to see.
Wow, I remember that photo of him at the Pink Floyd session for “shine on” I think it was in 1974. Everybody talks about how bad he looked then and how “unrecognizable” he was (made Rodger waters and Gilmour cry) but in these he looks just like himself when he was a kid. I don’t see the dark lifeless eyes that so many documentaries try to tell you he had post Floyd. Thank you for positing ☮️
Roger Waters is an asshole. He betrayed his best friend Syd
That was June 1975
If you search his (few) photos of 1975 it's clearly worst than these, he is shabby, almost bald, he doesn't even have eyebrows. Glad to see these other pictures where he looks much better.
Glad to see not photos of him of the 1975 the year he was out of this world after that year he seems to be recover from this period
yeah he looked good in 1978 and the early 80s, was probably just going through a bad patch in 75
Love your mad music Syd. RIP
Thanks Juxta, I had to do a spur-of-moment edit at the end so it lost 7 seconds at the very end (I had to use the youtube internal editor which is tricky) so I may fix the ending and/or do a slightly longer version. Thanks!
What a profound impact his short time as a musician/writer had and continues to have. A complete original, and inspiration to many 💓
What a fantastic video that gets better and better.....
Great job, great music too !
Great pics, many have not seen before. Good work!
Marvellous, I speak someone who has admitted Syd for well on 55 years. Thank you.
RIP Syd ! I remember running into you in June of 1982 in Cambridge England
How was it like?
Nice to see him smiling at the end though. He had found peace.
Thank you I enjoyed that very much.
He was such a cool looking guy when he was in the 60’s
Great collection of images. Thanks for this.
In the pictures from February/March '67, you can see in his eyes that he's been tripping a LOT at this point.
YEP. COULDN'T COME BACK. RIH SYD SHINE ON DIAMOND 💎 ✨
One of the coolest most charismatic guys ever.
Great job! The pic at 7:33 was completely new to me!
Fabulous, thank you.
Not many pictures from the mid seventies, well... apart from 'that' one that's not in this collection. But it's good to see him looking healthier and smiling at the end there, after what I imagine was a rough few years in his life.
I miss the Alexei Sayle look.
Really nice compilation, and timeline , real eye opener. Very nice job 👍. Amazing. One thing i noted was its not so black and white as everyone seems to recall (?) just a general trend towards a kind of reinvention of himself .. we are all playing a role - its not what we ARE . Our essential being remains untouched. Itsnice to seehim happy in the later shots . Nothing between 71 and 78 .. I got Mick Rock’s psychedelic renegades - an intimate book of photos of Syd .. Roger i should say. Fabulous book with extraordinary pictures . Ive also noticed that he never looks the same in any two pictures- every shot is a completely different expression. Obvious you may think, but some folk look similar in every picture of them . I find this fascinating. Good job 👍, Nice one .
The picture of him on May 14, 1967 was when he and Roger Waters were interviewed by Hans Keller. That interview is out here on TH-cam. Syd was his bright, shiny self. In the interview, he was fully intact. Other pictures prior to that may have been while under the influence of some kind of drug. He was intact May 1967. Piper At The Gates Of Dawn was released August 5, 1967. They were in a recording studio next door to The Beatles at Abbey Road Studio in June 1967 to record the album while Sgt. Pepper was being recorded. They met the Beatles. Nothing seemed abnormal. Syd's "lost weekend" occurred after that.
Keep that in mind while you watch the progression of time.
Where he did STP and totally lost it.
Quanto talento e quanta bellezza buttati al vento. Tutti cercano di capirlo,di interpretarlo,ma Syd era e rimane unico.
Nice tribute, shows him as he'd like to be remembered.
Too many tried to open the doors of perception & regretted it, so sad
Fascinating to see these pictures one after another in this format. It looks to me like something goes wrong midway through 1967. Nice to see that in the last picture he at least looked happy and healthy.
That January 21, 1967 picture reminds me of Peter Green, another brilliant Guitarist.
Green has the same trouble and dasteny like Syd.
I wanted to see a progression like this thank you.
Such a good looking guy in his youth. There must have been girls swarming around him like bees.
I remember running into him summer of 1982 in Cambridge England ,, I know of him however I just stood there !!
In that 1963 photograph he looks like the actor who played Acastus in "Jason and the Argonauts" that year.
This is fascinating. Interestingly, in the John Edgington interview with Joe Boyd, Joe recalls finding Syd in a gutter “at the end of May” (67) and being told by his girlfriend he had been tripping for days. Joe says that’s the first time he really became worried about Syd and then shortly after that coming face to face with Syd at UFO and Syd staring straight through him. He recalls that being the first time Syd just stood on stage.
Equally, Dave Gilmour recalls having seen Syd before heading out for his gigs in France in 67. He then recalls coming back after a few weeks to buy some new mics and linking up with Syd at the See Emily Play recording sessions. He mentioned it was a “big shock” due to the total transformation in Syd who didn’t appear to recognise him. See Emily was recorded on 21st May 1967.
Putting that together with these photos, you can see the moment the lights went out. The May 14 67 photo is Syd at the Hans Keller interview (“why does it have to be so terribly loud”?) and you can see the warmth and energy in his face. In the photos thereafter, he just has an intense stare - the warmth is gone.
Yes very well put, People have come on to argue about this, but the friends and fellow musicians who were there, saw the entire thing unfold, and have told the story. People such as June Child and Duggie Fields were right there and have said, unfortunately, that Syd took trip upon trip, and I think myself that Syd's main purpose was to experiment and be free to express himself, and as soon as that was curbed, he withdrew. Thanks for commenting naish!
His lyrics on Piper portray a man feeling social isolation and loss of sense of self. I'd sure like ti hear what he was like a littke earlier. He was already a lost soul on Pink Floyd's first album. Btw, 'Which one's Pink?" SYD, that's who!
@@rokarolla Yes that's true, he/they recorded it all through that period Spring to Summer 1967 so, he is already feeling it.
Thanks a lot, that's very interesting 👍
Absolutely superb work here. I love the haunting background music, and these certainly are very rare photos indeed !!! Thank you !
Que Hombre Más Atractivo y Elegante y Súper Inteligente! Lastima de su 😭 triste final🙏
Tenia el destino marcado, Virginia....estas personas super inteligentes consideradas genios como Barrett , llevan siempre alguna secuela interna....y lo peor que pudo haber hecho el, es haber abusado del acido lisergico...ya que estas drogas producen alucinaciones......lo que John Lennon y Paul Mc Cartney en sus ultimos 3 discos que grabaron , como el album blanco, Abbey Road y Let it be, tambien consumian LSD, pero a un nivel moderado.....entonces EN EL CASO DE BARRETT, se le potencio el problema de esquizofrenia, que segun algunos dicen por ahi, el ya tenia un cierto grado de esquizofrenia antes de volverse loco........segun los especialistas, casi todas ls personas con alto coheficiente inlectual, se terminan aislando, y acaban haciendo lo que no es adecuado....y mas aun, si sufrian de alguna adiccion como el ,y ante una droga letal .
Боже, какой красивый человек! И его красота даже больше внутренняя нежели внешняя. А какой взгляд!.. нигде не увидела в его глазах ни болезни, ни сумасшествия, только невероятно глубокую печаль и невыразимую боль. Еще вижу выражение тревоги и, даже , порой, испуга. Нигде не увидела пустоты в глазах - да, есть некоторый ,, уход на другую сторону,, - в любом случае, взгляд направлен в глубину себя, вовнутрь ( возможно, поэтому он кажется пустым и остекленевшим). В некоторых кадрах в глазах виден свет, чистота и детскость какая-то... просто невероятная харизма, гений, разумеется... Очень точно подобрана музыка, можно сказать, Syd весь соткан из этой музыки. Послушайте еще Giya Kancheli ,, Mourned By The Wind,, ... очень похоже. Пусть россыпью звезд вечно сияет твой космос, великий Syd Barrett! Низкий поклон за Вашу работу, Jonny!
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Покорнейше прошу меня простить, *Mr. Barrett*, "@@Ddddersqfhybhh
Theres always something haunting to see someone play out in photos, you see them at their best and slowly see them grow old in seconds. 😮
7:15 Syd Barrett pioneered the gothic emo style
He actually looked good in the last pic
Yes he seemed to have come the worst at that time :)
I think the last one appears to have been edited by someone who wanted to give Syd a Hollywood sheen and a winning smile 🤣
@@GeorgieWood765 I don't touch any of these to alter them in form and I leave the outlines intact, I don't play with the sharpness either, which I think, makes some pictures look fake. If someone did alter this, they did a 100% great job, because I can't detect any seams :)
I've found the original and it is a real photo by Janette Beckman, someone purchased the HD original and cropped it at a portrait (it's unaltered)www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/photo-of-musician-and-artist-syd-barrett-formerly-of-pink-news-photo/85030213/license
@@johnnygraham4004 I stand corrected 👍🙂
Thanks, may he rest in pease. ✌🏻👊🏼
The late 70s/80's photos give a bit more context to his post recording artist life; I'd only seen the '75 Polaroids from EMI where he looks like Divine out of drag; Apparently that was just a phase
I love Syd RIP legend
remember when you were young...
The poor man had to answer his door saying “Syd doesn’t live here anymore” to every person who knocked.
He just wanted to be Roger Barrett.
The smiles in the pictures of him later in life were ingenious of his happiness with his family.
He wasn’t a casualty of the era, he was a prisoner who escaped it.
He earned his freedom, but sadly he always hid from his own identity.
My favorite is the May 1981 picture. "Fooled you all."
He didint fool anyone but himself come ON. You trying to claim he was somehow not extremely sick in the head but planned it all? 😂🙄🤡
I want to make it clear that what I say here is only dumb "theories" based on my love for the image of the man I've got, based on all the different information I have run into. But he seemed to go from being here and alive with that sparkle in his eye to completely gone, way deep in his head. Dead eyes. And then back to the present, and so on. It seems he never "lost it" but was drifting in and out of bad and good mental states; he clearly had mental problems that might have been pushed forward by his extant drug use. Anyhow the man should not be pried into (epecially not his later years where he retreated from the public eye) but loved for the wonderful music he was able to bring to us.
Obviously no one will ever know what was in the mind of this very creative guy. Luckily, we’ll forever have his music and lyrics. Honestly, the first PF record taken by itself, is enough of an example of how talented Syd was at the time. The mystery is how quickly, the ability to harness it, slipped away.
Thanks Johnny ❤
Long live Syd!! Rest in peace u crazy genius!!
7th July, 2006 Syd Barrett took his leave from this plane, to 'See Emily Play'. Sometimes the rest they seek can only be obtained, when they brush the dust of this Earth from their feet. RIP Syd & thanks for sharing your thoughts, before they were stolen from you 😊
Whatever happened to Syd seemed to have occurred around July/August 1967. So very sad.
He was beautiful. Very expressive eyes. You see him off the drugs by the early 70s given the normal pupil size. Most likely medicated once he joined a normal life with his Mom and sister. Gilmore sent him money up until his death.
He barely smiles from June 67 onward.
He looks very haunted.
That's the music industry. Management, Record company, PR people.
SYD BARRETT FOREVER...
You've been making great videos fella, I'm really amazed with all this content. Thank you very much man. You may enjoy my music as well, Syd's my biggest inspiration and thats my contribution to bringe this atmosphere that Syd has dug. Thank you.
He was Hero ❤
R.I.P❤
I think getting kicked out of the pink floyd is what killed his soul. The drugs he used before getting kicked out were just recreational, he was experimenting like most people were back then, the guys from floyd were way to tough on him, I think they wanted to change the musical direction of the band, so they used his "drug problem" as an excuse to kick him out. The drugs he took after pink floyd were just an escape and a copping mechanism to try to ease the pain and sadness for what he had lost, drugs probably contributed to the deterioration of is mental health, but sadness was the main cause of his undoing. Rip legend. I say all this cause I know the pain, I have lost so much in my life that I totally get syd's situation, what he went thru, I also used to be more outgoing but i changed, life changed me, sadness changed me, people's betrayal changed me, so im not like that anymore. And now I find myself debating the meaning of everything thay I used to think was important, fame, money and all that is useless or maybe not I don't know, i guess I'm just not as inclined on chasing those things anymore.
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ah no. thats not what happened. he was getting on stage and standing motionless with his hands by his sides for 40 minutes while the band played on. he wasnt "just experimenting like most people were back then". he took acid day after day after day. it fried his brain. he was unable to play music live, communicate or be reliable in any way. they even tried keeping him in the band and were a 5-piece for the month of January 1968. Roger & Dave tried to get him to a shrink; to get him the help he so desperately needed. he wouldn't stay or accept any help. if you think that they concocted a plan to get rid of him because they wanted to change the musical direction of the band, you are utterly nuts @mexicanpepe4life
Nope Syd was the architect of his own demise. Stop blaming Pink Floyd!!
Chase your self!
Then you know 💩 about Pink Floyd’s history then….cuz he was SUCH A WRECK for so long…..THEN they kicked him out ….but that he was only staring and standing there blankly onstage for MONTHS AND MONTHS….so yea NOPE you’re wrong….Itmwasnt getting kicked out that made him lose is mind. Just wow at the ignorance…..
The spark seemed to leave his eyes sometime in June 1967. 😢
great set of photos I muted the sound though I don't like the atmosphere I don't think it reflects the images well except for some of the 1967 ones, it's nice to see he looked well in many of the 70s shots and not as stressed as the hectic late 60s period, it's strange because that Shine On You Crazy diamond story about him appearing doesn't seem to reflect how he looked around that time, he looked the same as he ever did except for thinning hair
Cool vid. A couple Ive not seen before! Surprised you didnt include the ones of him in 1975 where he just turned up whilst Floyd were recording. 'Ive been eating lots of lamb chops'...
Great to watch
Shine on Syd where u are now ❤
It’s quite shocking to see the gradual changes in Syd’s face throughout 1967 as his mental health deteriorated. Sadly, Syd was in his early 20s when this all took place, which is the time many young males develop Schizophrenia, with or without the use of recreational drugs or psychedelics. It’s very sad. Having worked in the mental health field, I’ve seen this progression first hand.
..........to be fair Syd does not look too bad at all in those last 2 photos !
Planet Earth is such a strange place to live.
The inventer of modern music
Bellissimo Syd
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HE WAS A GENIUS. SO SAD
Poor guy. I just want to hug him.
Have you got it yet?
I wish you'd put Interstellar Overdrive live in the background
I like to pull them out of the well-known context and reframe the photos, to have a fresh look at them, Thanks tho :)
@johnnygraham4004 It's a great idea and I loved it.
This reminds me of my brother. His mental decline was very similar. So heart breaking. The amount of drugs my brother took could kill a horse. He is in a care home now. A former shell of himself, he was also an artist and very funny.😢
😢 very moving
In the last photo he looked fine. He really didn't change that much through the years.
I wonder if he ever saw Pink Floyd the wall movie? He must have, i watched it while tripping and took a bad trip, jumped out a 4 story window woke up three days later in hospital,
I watched it in a room with five strangers and one friend, i lost it, i did watch it while clean but it was not the movie i saw in that house as i became lead role, strange as F
some dates are off, the second to last photo of syd with his sister that you have dated may 1981 was (according to the syd barrett website) from 1978
overall good video shows the progression of his mental illness but also how he had happiness and peace after PF
He was so handsome 😢
Increíble como las drogas acaban con alguien muy talentoso y la destruye por completo tenia todo para disfrutar de su vida que triste y aun así hoy en dia los jóvenes no toman en cuenta eso esta a la alza los jóvenes enfermos de drogas.
what was his etnicity? he was very intersting looking
Interesting question.. Not seems pure English..
Like the vast amount of indigenous British Syd was likely to have been a mix of Germanic/Celt, nothing more exotic than that. There are millions of us with Syds ethnic colouring and features.
Obvious music examples George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Robert Smith, Ian McCuloch, Keith Richards etc etc etc endless list....
Praticamente is only cucasian
The Piper at the gates of dawn! RIP legend
Widać jak wraz z upływem czasu gasl ten świetny artysta.....
some dates are difficult... like 8 jul 67... p f were playing a gig in Northwich
lol People do gig and take photos/make videos on the same day--it's doable, And they did
it's futile to split hairs, take it as a whole :) P , p f is wrong: should be caps: Pink Floyd
This is what happened to many people back in the 60’s who took too much LSD .. Some people it didn’t have any real long term damaging affect ,, but others it basically transformed their brain from a normal human mind to a Del Monte pineapple 🤷♂️
The timeline of some photos is incorrect, but the video is interesting.
It happened in April 1967, we can only guess what
So btw Sept 67 and Oct 67 he took the trip that he never came back from. Don't be fooled by the pic Oct 1st as it's retouched to add focus to his eyes.
So btw that was end of July
(don't b fooled)
Ummm clearly was in may but ok
Not sure about the Jan '70 to June '70 pics - hair grows about 1/2" a month. That looks like more than 3" of growth.
Did he ever comment some Pink Floyd albums?