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Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett & the Grief Behind Wish You Were Here
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Syd Barrett was the genius who founded Pink Floyd… and the friend they lost long before he was gone.Fifty years after Wish You Were Here, the album still feels like a monument to grief, guilt, and a band trying to understand the collapse of someone they loved.
This is the story of Syd, Pink Floyd, and the masterpiece shaped by trauma.In this episode of The Last Mixed Tape, we dive into how the loss of their original songwriter haunted the band, from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, to the breakdown that shook the group, to the themes of madness explored on The Dark Side of the Moon, and finally to the emotional creation of Wish You Were Here.
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