The Chapter "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" deals with the history of the band Pink Floyd, with a special accent on one of its former band members, Syd Barrett.
The Little Grey Men was one of Syd Barrett's favourite books; an excerpt from it was read at his funeral.
It includes "Scarecrows in the Rain", a tribute to the late Syd Barrett which the band claimed they wrote in just hours.
The device was popular with guitarists and was used by Brian May, Jimmy Page and Syd Barrett among others.
Golden Hair, a song by Syd Barrett that is structured around the original Joyce poem
Altered Images, were a big influence on Brandon at the time, as well as his other favourite bands such as The Cure, Aztec Camera, Syd Barret, The Coral, and 1960's psychedelic band July.
The record featured minimal, acoustic songs with psychedelic influences, reminiscent of Skip Spence’s Oar and Syd Barrett’s Opel, and was recorded by Mark Nevers in Nashville, TN.
He was involved on the historic Syd Barrett solo recordings, and remastered his compilation albums.
As he was still able to play basic guitar chords, he joined several friends from the Los Angeles music scene to perform a tribute to Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett, which they called A Room Of Musical Tunes.
Syd Barrett | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Barrett Watten | Barrett | William Barrett | Majel Barrett | Dave Barrett | Barrett-Jackson | Syd Mead | Wilson Barrett | Syd Shores | Shirley Barrett | Rona Barrett | Danny Barrett | Bo Barrett | Wild Willy Barrett | Vinnie Barrett | Thomas J. Barrett | Syd Little | Stanton Barrett | Paula Barrett | Nancy Barrett | Judith Barrett | Deirdre Barrett | David V. Barrett | Barrett Martin | Barrett (album) | Syd tha Kyd | Syd Field | Stephen Barrett |
Blackhill Enterprises was a rock music management company, founded as a partnership by the four original members of Pink Floyd (Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Richard Wright), with Peter Jenner and Andrew King.
His music has evolved significantly, to become a distant entity from some of his earlier blues-based work, showing a definite influence of more experimental bands such as The Homosexuals and The Fall, and some absurdist elements which have led to comparisons to compatriot exponents of that genre, Vivian Stanshall and Syd Barrett.
Syd Barrett from the early Pink Floyd usually played this guitar before switching to a Fender Esquire, and also Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin used this model of guitar on live performances of "Kashmir", "In My Time of Dying", "Black Mountain Side", and "White Summer".
In May 2007 Martha Wainwright, her mother, Kate McGarrigle, and cousin Lily Lanken performed "Golden Hair" and "See Emily Play" at the Syd Barrett memorial concert at the Barbican Centre in London.
During this period of exposing newly-written compositions to live audiences (sometimes even making them up on the spot) Treacy and Ball nominated personal figureheads that almost personified their own destinies - Teenage Filmstars "I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape" (1980) and the TV Personalities "I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives" (1981).
The focus of the film is Syd Barrett, the lead vocalist and guitarist of the early Pink Floyd, who created their unique psychedelic sound and most of the band's early songs, including the singles "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play" and much of their first album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine in a retrospective review for Allmusic felt that the music on the album showed the influence of the Beatles, the Byrds and Syd Barrett, and that in its turn it influenced the jangle pop of R.E.M. and other underground pop of the 1980s.