Canvases and Letters Show how Pink Floyd Founder Syd Barrett Put Painting Before Pop Music

Canvases and Letters Show how Pink Floyd Founder Syd Barrett Put Painting Before Pop Music

LONDON (REUTERS).- He helped create one of rock's greatest bands, but the late Syd Barrett always considered himself a painter before a Pink Floyd founder. Speaking at an exhibition of the troubled musician's canvases and letters, his sister Rosemary Breen said Barrett could never understand why people put his brief success with Pink Floyd ahead of his lifelong passion for art. ...http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=45807

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