Blue Plaque for Syd
As part of the BBC’s Music Day which took place on the 15 June 2017, a Blue Plaque for Syd was unveiled at Anglia Ruskin University. In Syd’s day the University was called the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology and here is where Syd studied art. The Blue Plaque appears on the original arts building. The plaque was unveiled by his sister, Rosemary Breen, who said that Syd would “have loved it.”
By the time Syd was studying at the College he was already making the first steps in his career as a musician and was performing locally.
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Gifted psychedelic-rock pioneer streaks like a comet across the Swinging London music scene, sears his mind on drugs, descends into madness, and disappears. He became something more horrifying than a rock martyr like Jim Morrison or Jimi Hendrix; he became a kind of living dead man. The most famous episode in the Barrett legend was his 1975 reunion with Pink Floyd, when he turned up unannounced at Abbey Road Studios just as the band was recording their Barrett elegy, “Shine On, You Crazy Diamond.” He was a gruesome apparition—bloated, with a shaved head and shaved eyebrows—and none of his ex-bandmates recognized him.
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