“Oh, they [the Media] definitely don't want to know the real Barrett story… there are no facts involved in the Barrett story so they can make up any story they like, and they do. There's a vague basis in fact: Syd was in the band and he did write the material on the first album, 80% of it, but that's all. It is only that one album, and that's what people don't realise. That first album, and one track on the second. That's all; nothing else.”

—  Roger Waters

quoted in Lost In The Woods by Julian Palacios, 1997
Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett

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English songwriter, bassist, and lyricist of Pink Floyd 1943

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