Syd Barrett was a founding member of which band?
Syd Barrett Syd Barrett Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, songwriter, and musician. As a founder member of the band Pink Floyd, Barrett was the lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter in its early years and is credited with naming the band. He was ousted from Pink Floyd in April 1968 after David Gilmour took over as their new guitarist, and was briefly hospitalised amid speculation of mental illness and his excessive use of psychedelic drugs. Barrett was musically active for less than ten years. With Pink Floyd, he recorded four singles, their
Syd Barrett other band members soon grew tired of Barrett's antics and, on 26 January 1968, when Waters was driving on the way to a show at Southampton University, the band elected not to pick Barrett up: one person in the car said, "Shall we pick Syd up?" and another said, "Let's not bother." As Barrett had, up until then, written the bulk of the band's material, the initial plan was to keep him in the group as a non-touring member—as the Beach Boys had done with Brian Wilson—but this proved impractical. Gilmour subsequently became a full-time member of the band. According