Lady Writer on the TV

RIP Syd Barrett

January 6, 1946 - July 7, 2006

“It’s awfully considerate of you to think of me here.

And I’m much obliged to you for making it clear,

"I honestly think that if it hadn’t been for that band [Cream], I would have had a perfectly respectable career in perhaps a more esoteric way."

“So I do think of myself in that way as hopefully someone who will go on as long as there’s an audience and as long as I can without striving to have huge hit records because I think in a way if I’d had hit singles or something like that years ago it would have been difficult for me to carry on the way I have.”

"There were parties all the time at our house in the early seventies. There’d be all these grown-ups who wouldn’t take any notice of us kids, but uncle Keith would always hang out with us, chatting or drawing or painting." - Zak Starkey on "uncle Keith" 

"I’ve probably cried every single day since Keith died. He went in 1978. I’ve never actually calculated, but it’s an awful lot of tears" - John Entwistle