{"id":12483,"date":"2006-07-11T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/11\/pink-floyd-founder-syd-barrett-dead-at-60\/"},"modified":"2006-07-11T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T22:19:00","slug":"pink-floyd-founder-syd-barrett-dead-at-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/11\/pink-floyd-founder-syd-barrett-dead-at-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Floyd Founder Syd Barrett Dead At 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0%2C%2C2-2265034%2C00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"150\" height=\"195\" alt=\"Syd Barrett, 1970\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/sydbarrett.jpg\" \/><\/a>The <i>Times Online<\/i> reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0%2C%2C2-2265034%2C00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett &ldquo;died peacefully at home&rdquo;<\/a> from unknown causes.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syd_Barrett\" target=\"_blank\">Barrett<\/a> cofounded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/cg\/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;sql=11:fy508qztbtn4\" target=\"_blank\">Pink Floyd<\/a> with Roger Waters in 1965, but by the late &lsquo;60s, just as the band was gaining fame, drug use and psychological problems led to his split with the band and &ldquo;near-total reclusion.&rdquo;  Pink Floyd&rsquo;s iconic 1975 album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/cg\/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;sql=10:y60e4j270waq\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Wish You Were Here<\/i><\/a> was dedicated to Barrett, especially the songs <i>Shine On You, Crazy Diamond<\/i> and the title track.<\/p>\n<p><i>Wish You Were Here<\/i> is one of my favorite songs of all time, and I&rsquo;m quite sad to hear this news.  I&rsquo;ve uploaded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/sounds\/PinkFloyd-WishYouWereHere.mp3\" title=\"Wish You Were Here MP3 file\" target=\"_blank\">song in MP3 format\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/icons\/sound.gif\" width=\"11\" height=\"11\" \/><\/a> for your listening\/downloading pleasure; here are the lyrics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,<br \/>blue skies from pain.<br \/>Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?<br \/>A smile from a veil?<br \/>Do you think you can tell?<br \/>And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?<br \/>Hot ashes for trees?<br \/>Hot air for a cool breeze?<br \/>Cold comfort for change?<br \/>And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?<br \/>How I wish, how I wish you were here.<br \/>We&rsquo;re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,<br \/>Running over the same old ground.<br \/>What have we found? The same old fears.<br \/>Wish you were here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/music\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">music<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/obituaries\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">obituaries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/mp3\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-115265577995215500?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times Online reports that Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett &ldquo;died peacefully at home&rdquo; from unknown causes. Barrett cofounded Pink Floyd with Roger Waters in 1965, but by the late &lsquo;60s, just as the band was gaining fame, drug use and psychological problems led to his split with the band and &ldquo;near-total reclusion.&rdquo; Pink Floyd&rsquo;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/11\/pink-floyd-founder-syd-barrett-dead-at-60\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pink Floyd Founder Syd Barrett Dead At 60&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}