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Pink Floyd: nine of the iconic band's best songs, from Echoes to Learning to Fly

We rank the band’s best tracks

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"John Lennon doesn't have to do this, why should I?": Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, and the creation of See Emily Play

Written by co-founder Syd Barrett, See Emily Play gave the fledgling Pink Floyd their first UK Top 10 single

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“The four-note phrase is arguably the most recognisable motif of the entire Pink Floyd catalogue”: Seven powerful moments that help make Wish You Were Here so unique

…and two of them occur before a single note is heard of the band’s 1975 classic

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"The whole 'I Hate Pink Floyd' thing was hilarious. Anyone who took that seriously needs a new head." The story of the unlikely friendship between The Sex Pistols' John Lydon and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour

Despite what you may have heard, there is no animosity between England's most famous punk and prog rock bands

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Earliest known Syd Barrett painting to be auctioned

Syd Barrett's 1963 pastel and watercolor Dried Flowers goes up for auction in July

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“I thought Syd could do no wrong. It’s so sad that he couldn’t continue with the fever he started with. ” Why David Bowie was “passionately in love with” Syd Barrett and took huge influence from his “magical" time in Pink Floyd

"His impact on my thinking was enormous." David Bowie on Syd Barrett

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“Syd was always experimenting. He had a very open sort of mind, to an almost dangerous degree”: the truth behind the myth of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd’s original singer and psychedelic icon

Original Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett died on July 7, 2006. This is the story of the rise and decline of a psychedelic icon

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“We were sure A Whiter Shade Of Pale would drop out of the charts, but it just stuck there!” See Emily Play became Syd Barrett’s last stand as Pink Floyd took flight

Their second single remains their second-biggest hit, and will always be significant in their history

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The paradox of the Lakers’ head coaching job

Is the Lakers' head coaching job an attractive and coveted one, or is it a toxic one?

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"Roger Waters took it off the album because it was too dark, and it is." The story behind the Syd Barrett song that Pink Floyd considered too disturbing to be released, but The Jesus And Mary Chain recorded for their first single

The story behind the Pink Floyd song the band kept in their vaults for almost 50 years

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"I was halfway through Atom Heart Mother thinking, 'What the f*** are we doing? This is a bit ambitious!'": The stories behind Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets' new Set The Controls setlist

Warning: Contains spoilers

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“How could Syd Barrett find being in the back of a van with the lads interesting, when his head was out there? You’re working all the time in your head”: The prog credentials of Prefab Sprout’s Paddy McAloon

There are hints throughout the band’s catalogue, but cult album I Trawl The Megahertz, built from quotes found in broadcast media, is Exhibit A in the prog case

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“Everyone’s story is different… All I can say is he was definitely there, and it was weird”: Syd Barrett’s surprise visit to Pink Floyd‘s studio

Five years after they’d felt forced to dump him, the band’s original leader shocked his former colleagues at Abbey Road in 1975

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"When David Bowie walked into the room, it was like the messiah walked in." Drum legend Steve DiStanislao recalls the night that David Bowie performed a Syd Barrett classic with Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Richard Wright

Steve DiStanislao looks back on playing alongside David Bowie, David Gilmour and Richard Wright for one very special evening

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Wish You Were Here? Former beachfront home of legendary Pink Floyd manager on the market in Sussex for £3.5m

Steve O’Rourke lived at the property while he managed Pink Floyd

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd; Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story and more – review

In a bumper week for rock-related programmes, a long-gestating profile of Syd Barrett offers little that’s new, Bon Jovi get the show they don’t quite deserve – and there are glaring gaps in a history of Gary Glitter’s crimes

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: the trippy story of Pink Floyd’s lost member Syd Barrett

An immersive documentary about the band’s founder, who left the group to live in solitude. Plus: more explosive drama in Traces. Here’s what to watch this evening

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“He was one of the most crucial figures of the ’60s. Much of the underground was his invention”: the forgotten story of John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, the man who invented psychedelic London

He helped launch Pink Floyd’s career and got arrested with the Rolling Stones – John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins was the King Of The 1960s Underground

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Cool new prog music you have to hear this week from Big Big Train, Exploring Birdsong, Midas Fall and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog music to check out from Caleb Landry Jones, Circuline, Dave McLean, Abstrakt Lake and more...

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“A unique, sometimes unsettling experience… His baritone gives the songs a shade of unorthodoxy which goes beyond typical English hippie eccentricity”: Kevin Ayers’ Joy Of A Toy (Remastered Gatefold Vinyl Edition)

Syd Barrett’s contribution is absent in an edition that sticks religiously to 1969 template

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How Syd Barrett cast a spell that lasted throughout Pink Floyd's career

Pink Floyd are synonymous with Roger Waters and David Gilmour, but Syd Barrett remains the lost genius at the heart of the band

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“It was when we knew Roger Waters wasn’t going to be part of anything we did, but before he’d officially left. He had us trapped in limbo. I was putting my toe in the water”: David Gilmour’s solo career

Despite saying it’s less complicated to work alone, David Gilmour’s association with Pink Floyd means he never wandered far, or for long, from the band

Evening Standard

Highgate house where Pink Floyd was formed available to rent for £12,000pcm

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Richard Wright and Syd Barrett all lived at the house on Stanhope Gardens in the sixties

The Guardian - UK

‘Is my play still relevant? I don’t care!’ Tom Stoppard on his Gaza quandary and reviving Rock ’n’ Roll

As his Velvet Revolution drama returns, the great writer talks about his mounting Israel-Gaza uncertainties, the epiphanies he has in every hot shower – and our one-star ‘corker’ review of The Crown

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In late 1967 Pink Floyd stayed at Alice Cooper's house before appearing on American Bandstand: on both occasions Syd Barrett completely baffled his hosts

While in California to promote their Apples And Oranges single, Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett began to show signs of the behaviour that would lead to his departure from the band

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