New tribute to Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett

When Simon Gunton began putting together a tribute to Syd Barrett, the enigmatic musician and original member of Pink Floyd who died in 2006, he says he could "never have imagined" the effect it would have on the mental health service users he was working with. "They really seemed to identify with Syd," he says. "There was a connection, especially among the musicians. The story of Syd's music, the fact that he was so creative and experimental, that he never did the same thing twice, it really re...

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