Pink Floyd & Britannica Films (Happy Birthday, Syd Barrett!)

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Pink Floyd & Britannica Films (Happy Birthday, Syd Barrett!)
      

Roger Keith Barrett---singer, songwriter, and founding member (1965) of the trailblazing rock group You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login---was born this day (January 6) in 1946.  He wrote most of the band's early hit songs, and he was a major influence on psychedelic rock of the 1960s.  He long suffered from mental illness and heavy drug use and was notorious for his erratic behavior.

His fan base, however, remains firmly entrenched. One such fan even created this video, featuring Barrett singing "Dark Globe" (a song often referred to as "Wouldn't You Miss Me" and assumed to be aimed at Barrett's former bandmates) from his first solo album The Madcap Laughs.  

The song is set to, of all things, an old film produced by Encyclopaedia Britannica, a film that the videographer ... plays backwards.

         

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