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[–]hennaojichan 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Wish You Were Here was about him but maybe Everybody Knows.

[–]Optimus85[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Also "Shine on you crazy diamond".

[–]hennaojichan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

You know your stuff.

[–]Zapped 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Didn't the guys give him writing credits after he left the band so he and his mother would always have money coming in?

[–]hennaojichan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It sounds like something they would do but this is the first I've heard of it. Thanks

[–]Optimus85[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think so. I know he wrote a couple of song on The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and one song on Saucerful of Secrets which I believe he received royalties from long after his departure from the band. It's a tragic story really. There's this sad anecdote of Waters about a bald and fat weirdo brushing his teeth compulsively and hanging out in the studio where the band was. Waters later realized it was Syd and he started sobbing.

[–]mahavishnunj 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I know he wrote a couple of song on The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

He wrote 90% of that record.

There's this sad anecdote of Waters about a bald and fat weirdo brushing his teeth compulsively and hanging out in the studio where the band was.

Here's a picture of it: http://cultstories.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/syd-barrett-cult-stories-music-pink-floyd-2.jpg