SYD BARRETT'S BROTHER IN LAW INTERVIEW 27/10/1988

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  • Interview by Nicky Campbell with Paul Breen, Syd's brother in law on BBC Radio One on the 27th of October 1988 shortly after the 'Opel' LP of studio out-takes was released.
    Syd's current whereabouts and activities during that time are discussed, finishing off with Paul assuring us that Syd was happy, and that he would pass on our very best regards to him.

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  • @dr.buzzvonjellar8862
    @dr.buzzvonjellar8862 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I believe every word Paul said. Syd knew what he was doing and he knew how to take care of his mental health to the extent it was possible. Thank you for posting

  • @mikewatts867
    @mikewatts867 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Hearing this makes me happy. He had an amazingly positive spirit, and is so often portrayed as a shell of himself. Is Syd Happy? Best question ever asked of him. And the answer was yes.

    • @Valientlink
      @Valientlink 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yeah, it's not like he was ever suicidal despite all that happened.

    • @michaelholtermann9129
      @michaelholtermann9129 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The healthy Syd Barett was very creative. Unfortunately, he had the wrong friends. His sister Rosemary once said: His bad times started with Pink Floyd!!! I think his bad times started in the shared flat where Syd lived!!! He hung out too much with junkies... A real tragedy for Syd and his family. Syd and Pink Floyd were a good match... The first record, The Piper...... is a good record... In 1968, Syd was kicked out... Unfortunately, he didn't learn anything from it!!! He continued to take drugs... Syd was on the verge of schizophrenia on his 2 solo records in 1970. His 2 solo records should have been recorded with Pink Floyd, they would have been better musically. That was it... Syd failed as a painter and musician. I'm interested in how Syd lived with his illness... The Barrett family doesn't say anything about it...

    • @mikewatts867
      @mikewatts867 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@michaelholtermann9129 well this interview is with a family member and he speaks of exactly what you are suggesting they never said anything about. He didn't accomplish the things he should have had, musically or with his painting. I mean it didn't continue. But he ended up settling in to a contented life, it just wasn't the life we envisioned for him. Even before the drugs and mental illness took control of his life, from everything I've seen and read, he didn't want to be in the spotlight. I think we can appreciate that in his final years, he enjoyed his day to day routines. If it hadn't been the drugs and bad influences in the late 60s, superstardom in the 70s would have done him in and maybe he would have lost his life to worse drugs than the mind altering ones that contributed to his mental illness. He tended to his garden, enjoyed his neighborhood and whatever else he did. He basically become an old man at a young age but he stuck around for many years in his comfortable bubble.

  • @VanishedPNW
    @VanishedPNW 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    God bless the radio interviewer, "is Syd happy?" That actually kind of choked me up. What a thing to ask, and its a thing you ask when you truly love someone/want to know how theyre doing.

  • @keriford54
    @keriford54 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    I find this reassuring, seems like he was relatively happy most of his life and his eyes were not "like black holes in the sky". His sister said similar things. But how dare he give up the glory of rock music! 😉 I wish there was a documentary on his rather ordinary later life with just interviews with family and people he knew in later life and no interviews with famous people who had no contact with him at the time.

    • @MrNEILSUPERNAUT
      @MrNEILSUPERNAUT  ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Make sure you watch the new 'Have you got it yet?' brilliant documentary that covers his whole life.

    • @fak2397
      @fak2397 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      There is a reason why he doesn’t want to remember his glory days 😢

    • @talrasha1985
      @talrasha1985 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      You may read 'a very irregular head' by Rob Chapman (and read some interviews of Nick Mason, he Is more honest than his bandmates).

    • @keriford54
      @keriford54 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@talrasha1985 Does that deal well with his later life?

    • @talrasha1985
      @talrasha1985 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@keriford54 yes, but there may not be as much thinds as you might want, but it's still very informative and valuable. This is the only objective book about Syd. Rob breaks down all the myths about him, does not make diagnoses based on photographs, but honestly describes his life, based on the PF tapes, the words of his family, childhood friends, bandmates from Stars and others.

  • @arthurlockwood8735
    @arthurlockwood8735 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    See Emily play remember it well lovely times in the 60s. Going to work in 1967 of to the. Cotten mill in Lancashire Nelson. Tony's hicks home town. Singin. See Emily play to make us happy loog day to work. Love that song thanks 😊🙏💯🇬🇧👌👍

  • @jeremylatta9038
    @jeremylatta9038 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    After listening to Rosemary Breen talk about how they all interacted with Roger in the later years I'm going to hazard a guess that Paul Breen didn't pass on Nicky's well wishes

  • @vernonsmith6965
    @vernonsmith6965 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Great interview

  • @roberthodibella2607
    @roberthodibella2607 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    THANKS DEAR NEIL!!!

  • @rarerockphotography
    @rarerockphotography 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Nice undramatic interview

  • @silverdragon710
    @silverdragon710 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    I doubt he was truly happy. Content yes, he had peace, he didn't have to work, he was free with leisure time and he had his sister to help him. But it's probably a far cry from what he would have wanted. ❤

    • @benhouse9358
      @benhouse9358 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Happiness isn't something we achieve and then inhabit indefinitely. It comes and goes. I think Syd went a long time without feeling any sense of happiness, but eventually rediscovered it and was able to then pursue it in a way that worked for him.
      People seem to think that he was bitter about not being able to fulfill his musical ambitions. I think he regretted pursuing music over painting in the first place. In the end, he didn't have to work or worry about money, and he didn't want or need the company of others. All he wanted to do was paint, and that's what he did.

    • @silverdragon710
      @silverdragon710 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@benhouse9358 I don't think you know what he wanted. As if painting and making art is some kind of nice relaxing pass time. It's hard being an artist especially when you have much to express but lack direction. And he also had a lot to express musically and by the reports of how it ended I don't think it must have been very satisfactory to just quit, not just music business but life in general. But you could be right. Maybe he was happier than most. I know I'd love to live his life. Money coming in while I do whatever I want without any responsibility meanwhile the whole world revers me.

    • @baron0877
      @baron0877 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@silverdragon710 No one is qualified to speak on what Syd probably did or did not want unless they knew him personally. Anything else is speculation.

    • @silverdragon710
      @silverdragon710 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@baron0877 It's not so much speculation when you hear what others who knew him say. So yeah based on that and general ideas of well being, I don't know, but I don't think it's a far fetching idea that he wasn't that happy.

    • @captainfeedback1
      @captainfeedback1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You make the assumption that everyone must want to be involved in the music business.

  • @keyboardwarrior9406
    @keyboardwarrior9406 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I love the internet. Thank you

  • @iainstewart7104
    @iainstewart7104 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There's a Mark & Lard one talking about people Syd would chat to at a park in Cambridge

  • @kissed61
    @kissed61 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I would have asked how communicative and lucid he is

  • @michaelholtermann9129
    @michaelholtermann9129 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Syd Barrett's second solo album is the best. It's better than Pink Floyd records 2, 3 and 4. So Syd could still play music. Even though the recordings were difficult, according to David Gilmour. It's a sad story. Syd Barrett continued to take drugs on his two solo albums. No brain can handle that!! The last documentary didn't show anything new ??? I'm interested in Syd Barrett the person, how he lived with his illness ?? How long did Syd battle his drug addiction ??? Was Syd in a psychiatric hospital ?? Why did he live in such isolation ?? Could he or did he not want to play music anymore ?? Syd Barrett lived in an inner prison. He was tormented by his demons. He screamed often several times a night. Stories from his neighbor. I don't know if he ever found redemption or peace for his soul ??

  • @pawnotdaw4559
    @pawnotdaw4559 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Is anyone really happy?

  • @iainstewart7104
    @iainstewart7104 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He would have been 42 then

  • @xmunki1389
    @xmunki1389 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I seriously doubt he was happy, considering his well documented violent outbursts in the eighties. Content and relatively stress-free, sure. But actually happy and satisfied with life? I'm not too sure about that one.

    • @jmdavison62
      @jmdavison62 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I agree. I got the impression that Rosemary Breen tried a bit too hard to de-glamourize her brother by putting forth the idea that Roger Barrett was "ordinary" and happy. He may have resigned himself to his condition by 1998, and he was lucky to have family who helped to support him and tolerate the occasional violent outburst, but that's a far cry from living a normal life.

    • @p47-frdmfgter04
      @p47-frdmfgter04 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      what "well documented" outbursts?

    • @janpierzchala2004
      @janpierzchala2004 ปีที่แล้ว

      I just read his neighbors testimony. Lots of broken windows - but only Syd's own. @@p47-frdmfgter04

    • @MrNEILSUPERNAUT
      @MrNEILSUPERNAUT  ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@p47-frdmfgter04 ttexshexes.blogspot.com/2011/01/david-sore-syd-barrett-article-genius.html

    • @CoreyW6292
      @CoreyW6292 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@MrNEILSUPERNAUTWow. Thank you!

  • @michaelholtermann9129
    @michaelholtermann9129 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The healthy Syd Barrett was very creative. He was a talented, gifted young man. Unfortunately, he had the wrong friends. He started taking drugs very early on. The first record with Pink Floyd The Piper...... is a good record. Syd wrote 52 songs. Unfortunately, he took LSD several times a week... That's too much. No brain can handle that!!! He failed as a painter and musician!!! At 22, Syd was a sick person. ... He became lethargic... He was mentally absent... He didn't live in the here and now..... He could no longer play the right scale.... He was no longer productive... He had thinking and speaking disorders..... He wanted to climb walls.... He wanted to become a doctor and get married.... He wanted to start a cult.... He wanted to hit his sister Rosemary on the head with his guitar 🎸... Psychiatry wasn't ready at that time... Syd had dropped out!!!! 🎞️🎥 His whole life should be made into a movie.... I don't know if he ever found redemption or peace for his soul ??? He lived in an inner and outer prison....

    • @captainfeedback1
      @captainfeedback1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Took acid several times a week... Were you there? How do you know that?
      You don't. You also obviously know nothing about LSD and how quickly the human body builds up a tolerance to it - taaking it several times a week would have no effect. Imagine how the guy must have felt when he was alive, knowing idiots like you were spouting so much bullshit about him.