At this very second, the FM radio station in your town known as “The Bear” or “The Eagle” is playing one of their songs. It is a band that never seems to go away. The story of Pink Floyd is one of the foundational myths of classic rock history. And then the band went on to sell hundreds of millions of albums and stage mammoth concerts in stadiums all over the world.

Eventually, he was replaced by another chum from Cambridge named David Gilmour.

Then Syd discovered LSD and he had a major mental breakdown. As a young man, he formed a band with a boyhood school chum named Roger Waters. Seventy-six years ago this month, Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett was born in Cambridge, England.