Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

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Just to note some more interesting articles on Syd Barrett all from the Guardian:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,804928,00.html

and from the Guardian culture vulture blog site:

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturevulture/archives/2006/07/11/the_piper_who_s.html

Strangely ,though unappreciated on their release,Syd's two solo albums "The Madcap Laughs" and "Barrett",became more fasciinating with the passing of time.While his old bandmates made themselves the bêtes noirs of punk by accelerating into concept-heavy virtuosity,Barrett was one of those few artists whose legacy was enhanced after punk.
His two solo albums gradually became set texts for a generation of artists who ascribed a raw purity to Barrett's outlook.

Pink Floyd were originally called The Pink Floyd Blues Band.Barrett had coined the name as a fusion of two grizzled bluesmen called Pink Anderson and Floyd Council,although some hippy romantics will always prefer the story he later told of the name being transmitted to him by a flying saucer while he was sitting on Glastonbury Tor. (Perhaps it was Sun Ra in the fyling saucer who claimed to be from Saturn). They say that "Space Is The Place" - Okay June Tyson sing it for me.