6 January 2026
Pink Floyd‘s co-founder and main songwriter/vocalist SYD BARRETT,
real name Roger Keith Barrett) was born on 6 January 1946.
Happy 80 to the visionary musician whose promising career
was torpedoed by drug abuse and mental problems.
He co-wrote/recorded the first two Floyd albums – The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
and A Saucerful Of Secrets – and released two solo LPs in 1970, The Madcap Laughs
and Barrett. He passed away on 7 July 2006, aged 60.
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