Below, we're taking a look at 60 Rock Songs Inspired by Books and Literature, for the most part limiting it to one entry per ...

Music historians and fans have long known that the band’s 1975 album was a tribute to the band’s founding member, Syd Barrett, who left the band due to struggles with his mental health.

Moreover, many fans, if they don’t consider The Dark Side of the Moon to be Pink Floyd’s finest work, often regard its successor, 1975’s Wish You Were Here, as their best. Influenced even more by Syd ...

The song in question is ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’, the sprawling epic that bookends 1975’s Wish You Were Here, which is loaded with Roger Waters and the band’s sadness at the psychological decline ...

He attended the Perse School in Cambridge, and befriended Roger 'Syd' Barrett, a student at the nearby ... him by the release of Wish You Were Here (1975) that Waters intended to have complete ...

Hipgnosis – a term mixing “hip” with “gnosis” (meaning “mystic thought”) – was coined by Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett for the ... solo album (Beginnings, 1975) on the landscape ...

Using the broadest brush strokes, Pink Floyd became the UK’s first major psychedelic band thanks to their visionary leader ...

The life of Syd Barrett was not an easy one, but the legacy he left behind is one of the most respected in psychedelic rock.

In terms of contributions, that’s not bad going for a musician who originally joined in the capacity of support guitarist to the ailing Syd Barrett. Gilmour’s influence on Floyd’s ...

It’s hard to imagine the world of progressive music without David Gilmour’s distinctive and accomplished playing. His soaring ...

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett stands apart. She is the only former full-time law professor on the right wing. And she differs from her five fellow conservatives for the obvious reason ...