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PINK FLOYD
from The Peter van Breugel
SongScape Collection


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Painted in Acrylics on
composite board by the renowned Australian Artist Peter van Breugel
FFeaturing
a Songscape of clues to 25 song titles in images from the band
that gave us the Legendary Albums Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall.
Some obvious, some cryptic, these images also include titles from the
early works Piper At the Gates Of Dawn, A Saucerful of Secrets, Atom
Heart Mother & Obscured by Clouds as well as Dark Side, Wish You Were
Here & The Wall
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This
Special Syd Barrett Edition Print is dedicated to Syd’s memory and
features an image of Syd and images of his songs including Pink Floyd’s
first Singles, Arnold Layne & See Emily Play.
A list of all the 25 song
titles is included with the print.
Each copy of this
limited edition Print has been signed by the Artist.
Print
size: 80cm x 60cm. (31.5" x 23.5") Printed on high quality thick paper -
Ready for framing
$49
and NOW
available as a Postcard

Now Selling $5
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The Back Catalogue Poster
This Poster is an awesome example of
Rock Music and Graphic Art coming together!
The idea is brilliant, the girls are stunning and the "Back Catalogue" of music
represented here is legendary.


Back
Catalogue Poster available in 3 different sizes
91 x 61 cm -
$15
or Door Poster 53 x 158 -
$25
or Giant Poster 135 x 97 cm -
$35

'Shine on you crazy
Diamond'

Syd Barrett dies aged 60
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SYD Barrett, the founder of Pink Floyd has died aged 60.
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The wayward genius passed
away from cancer last Friday in the scruffy semi-detached Cambridge
home to which he retreated as a recluse more than 30 years ago.
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A spokeswoman for Pink
Floyd music publishers said: "I can confirm that Syd Barrett has
died.
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He died peacefully and
there will be a private family funeral.
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"We would ask that the
family be left alone and be given space at this time."
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The singer's funeral will
be for family and no members of Pink Floyd are expected to attend.
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Syd, who created, named
and powered the pied pipers of the psychedelic rock movement,
shunned fans and rarely ventured outside his front door following a
psychedelic drug induced breakdown at the peak of his career. He was
later immortalised in Pink Floyd's song Shine On You Crazy Diamond.
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On his death certificate,
his occupation was given as "retired musician".
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Born Roger Keith Barrett
on January 6, 1946, in Cambridge, he was given the nickname Syd aged
15.
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During the 1960s, when Syd
came of age, Cambridge played a very special part in the spiritual
birth of modern pop music across Britain and America.
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The local music scene was
thriving with bands such as Geof Mott and the Mottoes, the
Sundowners, the Swinging Vibros and the Redcaps all vying for
popularity.
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The Victoria Ballroom -
where Marks & Spencer now stands on the Market Square - was one of
the most popular hangouts. Musicians including Toni Santi, Clive
Welham, Willie Wilson and Nick Barraclough
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* now a BBC Radio 2
presenter - were the names on everyone's lips.
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But the two Cambridge men
who were to have the most lasting effect on British music were Syd,
guitarist with Geof Mott and Mottoes, and Dave Gilmour, singer and
guitarist with the band Jokers Wild.
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Syd formed Pink Floyd in
1965
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controversial departure was in '68 after he had penned the hit
singles Arnold Layne and See Emily Play along with the songs on the
first album, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn.
- While the band went on
to achieve worldwide fame, he lived in the basement of his mother's
semi in Cambridge, where he boarded up the windows to keep out of
the eyes of the press and fans. He recorded two solo albums.
- Syd's withdrawal from
public life led him to enjoy cult status among some Pink Floyd fans,
with many websites and books dedicated to him. He was often
described as the first acid casualty.
- Clive Welham said: "I
only knew Syd before his breakdown. He was a wonderful man - a nice
guy with a lovely sense of humour. He was very likeable and had no
malice in him.
- "He was a very
talented painter as well as a musician. How on earth he got mixed up
with such awful drugs, I don't know, but he liked to try things and
clearly went too far.
- "I have often seen him
around Cambridge but never talk to him - he was always in a world of
his own.
- It would have felt
wrong and I think it would've been a disastrous things to do - I
doubt he would've known who I was."
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Syd's Cambridge
Home of the last 30 years
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A Fan's parting
message
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The Madcap
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Pink Floyd
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- Neighbours
said the former rock star never answered his door to callers and
remained a recluse. They said he found it hard to make eye
contact.
- At this point, his
sister Rosemary Breen, who lived a few miles from Syd in
Cambridge, told the News he had not spoken to his former band
mates - Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Rick Wright, or his
replacement, Dave Gilmour - for nearly three decades.
- She said: "That is
another life for him, another world in another time.
- He is not Syd
anymore, he is Roger.
- There is no
contact (with the band members) and he does not want them to get
in touch with him."
- She added: "He
does DIY, he listens to music and he goes out."
- Mrs Breen helped
care for Syd in the years following his breakdown.
- She has declined
to comment on his death.
- Syd's brother Alan
Barrett said from his home in Linton, near Cambridge: "Roger
died on Friday.
- There will be a
small family funeral soon. We just wish to be left alone."
- Syd's father died
when he was still in his teens. It is believed this is one of
the factors that led to his downfall.
- It is understood
that Syd financed his modest lifestyle through royalties from
his Pink Floyd and solo records.
- Group's roots were laid
in city's pubs and clubs
- THE story of Pink
Floyd is well- documented, but their roots lay firmly in the
pubs, cafes and nightspots of Cambridge in the 1960s - a
highpoint which the local music scene has never managed to live
up to again.
- Syd and Dave
Gilmour dominated the Cambridge scene in the early 1960s.
- Syd left Cambridge
on receiving a scholarship to Camberwell Arts School in London
in 1963 and joined a band with his old friend from Cambridge,
Roger Waters.
- Fellow
Cantabrigian émigrés Rick Wright and Nick Mason also joined the
band and, after a succession of names including Sigma 6, The T
Set, the Meggadeaths and The Screaming Abdabs, Syd eventually
suggested taking the names of two Georgia bluesmen, Pink
Anderson and Floyd Council, and combining the names to create
Pink Floyd.
- Syd wrote the hit
singles Arnold Layne and See Emily Play along with the songs on
the first album, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn.
- Two years later,
his brain frazzled by drugs, he left the group, his legacy
already assured.
- Pink Floyd went on
to achieve worldwide recognition with epic albums such as Dark
Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall.
- In the 1980s
relationships among band members soured and Roger Waters left
the band.
- He started a legal
battle with the remaining members for the rights to the name
Pink Floyd, but he failed in his attempt and went on to record
solo work instead.
- The feud, one of
the greatest in rock history, ended for the Live 8 concert in
July 2005.
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Text Reprinted from Cambridge Evening News
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All Syd
Barrett & Pink Floyd Music is available from Offbeat
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This
First Edition is now out of print |
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Painted in Acrylics on
Canvas by the renowned Australian Artist Peter Van Breugel
This Limited Edition print
featured a songscape of 23 haunting song titles in images from the band
that gave us "Dark Side of the Moon" and "The Wall". Some obvious,
some cryptic, these images include titles from Atom Heart Mother, A
saucerful of secrets, Obscured by clouds & Meddle as well as Dark side,
the Wall & Wish you were here.
A list of all the 23 song titles was included with the print.
Each copy of this
limited edition Print was signed by the Artist.
Print size:
80cm x 60cm. (31.5" x 23.5") Printed on high quality thick
paper. |

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