“I FEEL A RESPONSIBILITY”
SYD BARRETT and DAVID GILMOUR: two very different men bonded by art, friendship and history.
“THIS ISN’T a memory, but it’s a deduction that when I joined Pink Floyd, I would have been singing Syd’s songs the way he’d sung them,” says David Gilmour, on the typically English singing voice he shares with Syd Barrett.
Gilmour joined Pink Floyd in January 1968 to help Barrett, who was slowly unravelling and barely performing on-stage. But after a handful of shows as a five-piece, Floyd chose to carry on without their founding singer and songwriter.