The Pink Floyd and those unpublished letters of Syd Barrett

Nineteen years after his death, the myth of Syd Barrett does not set. After the “Have You Got It Yet?” Film, released last year, to revive the human and artistic parable of the founder of Pink Floyd, a book now thinks about it. It is titled “Pink Floyd Shine On: The Definitive Oral History”, the biographer of the legendary British rock band Mark Blake wrote it and will contain exclusive and unpublished material, including letters written by Syd Barrett himself between 1965 and 1966 to his girlfriend of the time, who “reveal his most intimate thoughts on the band, their first session of recordings, his concerns about abandonment. of the art school and much more “. To read the letters, and the more generally book, fans of Pink Floyd will have to wait for 9 October. The book will be published in the United Kingdom by New Modern and is not known, at the moment, if it will also be translated into Italian.

Mark Blake, author of the best-seller “Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd”, published in 2007 and then reprinted in 2013 and 2017, which became a sort of “Bible” for the Floydians, also included interviews with David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and the late Richard Wright in the volume: “My hope is all the readers- Fans more avid to those who are discovering the music of Pink Floyd for the first time – can live an engaging and immediate experience of one of the most important bands in the world, “he says.

The release of “Pink Floyd Shine On: The Definitive Oral History” coincides with the sixtieth anniversary of the birth of Pink Floyd, the fiftieth anniversary of their multi-platform album “Wish You Were here” and the twentieth anniversary of the Pink Floyd reunion performance at the Live 8 Charity Concert. Twenty years from the death of Syd Barrett, who died at only 60 years of pancreas cancer.