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Last
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Picture of PINK FLOYD: (left to
right) Rick Right, Roger Waters, Nick Manson, and Syd Barrett.
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| Original Pink Floyd
line-up had Syd Barrett on
lead guitar instead of Dave Gilmour, otherwise personnel has remained
steady.
Roger Keith (Syd) Barrett was born January 1946 in university town
Cambridge,
England. Together with Waters and Gilmour he attended Cambridge High
School for
Boys. Moving to London, he attended Camberwell School of Art where, in
addition
to painting, he learned to play guitar. He played in various groups,
Geoff Mott
and the Mottos, The Hollering Blues, and, as a folk-duo, with Dave
Gilmour who
taught him Stones licks during their lunch-break. George Roger Waters
left
Carnbridge to study architecture at the Regent Street Polytechnic in
London.
Doing the same architectural course were Nicholas Berkeley Mason and
Richard
William Wright both Londoners who arrived at the poly via Frensham
Heights and
Haberdashers'. Waters, Mason and Wright formed a group and called
themselves Sigma
6. They were managed by Ken Chapman, an ex poly student but he had
no luck
in selling them to a record company. They tried for fame as The T-Set,
also as
The Abdabs, even as The Screaming Abdabs. It was as The Abdabs that
they were
given their first interview, in the poly newspaper. At that time Clive
Metcalf
played bass and Roger Waters was on lead. The group had two singers:
Keith
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