User:PCMorphy72/List of works about Syd Barrett

Iconic figure, complex topic

Albums
The most popular album in this list is obviously Wish You Were Here, although it is not an album strictly about Syd Barrett, nor the band has never claimed it was dedicated to him, but it is a concept album that follows themes closely related to Syd Barrett, his permanence in the band, and his departure (see the concept of this album, and the topic of Syd Barrett). Also, this album contains the song "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", which is absolutely about Syd Barrett and occupies almost 70% of its length, giving it even quantitatively the right to be an album included here.

An album (or the work for what it was made for) is considered "dedicated" if that was clearly stated somewhere. The same is for an album "about Syd Barrett", if the references in most of the songs don't give enough evidence themselves. If most of the songs are cover versions of Syd Barrett songs (or sound-alikes of them), it is implied that it is a cover album.

Books
Some reference works and biographies about Pink Floyd are included here if they give the most complete and updated information about Syd Barrett, or if a substantial part of them is about Syd Barrett, or if some important parts are or were unavailable in other books. The other books within a chapter or article about Syd Barrett are not listed here, but their specific part may be listed in the section Essays / Articles / Interviews.

If a book has tipped-in pages (plates/portaits) they are included in the page count.

The audio editions of the post-2002 books by John Cavanagh, Nick Mason, and Rob Chapman, are listed in the section Other works in audio format. Other printed material like sheet music, catalogues, advertising, memorabilia, etc. is listed in the section Other works in printed format. A number of other books have been published by self-publishing or print on demand, e.g. by PageKicker (Syd Barrett MiniBio, Syd Barrett MiniBriefing) or by General Books LLC (Syd Barrett Songs, Syd Barrett Albums), but they don't represent proper works about Syd Barrett, because of the lack of editing work in the material copyed from other sources, or the lack of authorship in the factual information reported.

Documentaries / Films
In this list the word movie is used for a fictional film, while a work has to be considered a documentary if not otherwise specified. If no director was credited, who had a major role in the creation is listed (to be precise, Elliot Riddle was the editor of the work, while Mark Radcliffe, John Harris and Chris Berrow were the presenters).

Note that the titles may have beeen changed through the various editions ramaining basically the same work, like for the 2001 documentary Syd Barrett: Crazy Diamond, changed in The Pink Floyd & Syd Barrett Story for its DVD release.

The single interviews are listed in the next section Essays / Articles / Interviews. The shorter video clips are in the section Other works in video format. Four works with short homemade footages where Syd Barrett was filmed in 1966, 1967, 1969, and 1998 are omitted in the list above because of the lack of independent (non-Syd Barrett) work required in their creation in order to consider them proper works about Syd Barrett, although a bit of extra footage and non-original music have been added in order to adorn their public release in more recent years. Them would be part of the Syd Barrett videography, in this case practically a poor addition to the Pink Floyd videography until 1968. Anyway they are listed here separately:
 * Pre-show for Pink Floyd at Knebworth '90 (20 min), aka Lost In The Woods, with Syd Barrett footage (1 min), perhaps filmed in 1967 by Storm Thorgerson and in 1969 by Mick Rock, screened live and broadcast on PPV in 30 June 1990
 * Syd Barrett's First Trip (11 min), filmed in 1966 and 1967 by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, released on VHS in 1994 and on DVD in 2001
 * R.K. Barrett: a day so dark so warm (13 min), with Syd Barrett footage (2 min), filmed in 1998 perhaps by Dion Johnson, sold on VHS in c. 2000
 * Psychedelia (22 min), with Syd Barrett footage (1 min), filmed in 1969 by Kevin Whitney, screened live in August 2007, sold on the 2 original Super 8 reels in June 2014

Among the other works not properly published but available on the internet, there are these two 10-minutes documentaries by IndicaUnlimited:
 * MAGNESIUM PROVERBS 1: The True Life Story of SYD BARRETT, uploaded on 5 August 2010
 * MAGNESIUM PROVERBS 2: SYD BARRETT - Into the Wildwood (1964-65), uploaded on 26 August 2010

Then, it would follow the third IndicaUnlimited's video Magnesium Proverbs 3, edited basically to accompany "Astronomy Domine", so it is a video clip that would fit better in the section Other works in video format.

Essays / Interviews / Articles
Only the most important articles are listed (e.g., the title appeared on a front cover).

The interviews are with Syd Barrett where not specified otherwise. Among the various articles on the internet not published in Books or magazines, there are the transcriptions from the interviews in the documentary The Thing About Syd (July 2007) and from the 1967 Syd Barrett interview by Thomas Lopez (Nov. 2007) (which was trascribed also by Rob Chapman in an unpublished part of his biography).

Paintings / Artworks
Only the paintings/drawings which appeared in an exhibition are listed. The photo shoots listed were an important part of the printed publication where they appeared, and some of the photos from them were published later in books, magazines and large-sized photographs. The most extemporaneous photo shoots are excluded (e.g. the ones not made in a studio). http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/books/the-pie-eyed-piper/story-e6frg8nf-1225900097417 http://moussemagazine.it/richard-aldrich-and-the-19th-century-french-painting-at-cam-st-louis/ http://deermilk.deviantart.com/art/Syd-Barrett-s-Brain-95417720 http://bojar.deviantart.com/art/Syd-Barrett-111359665 (? oil http://lowly-owly.deviantart.com/art/Syd-Barrett-2008-425083715) (? ink by gothicathedral http://www.deviantart.com/art/DSS-No-58-Syd-Barrett-208648953) (? drawing ink by ConfusedLarch http://www.deviantart.com/art/Syd-317061584 acrylic by Robin-Waldren http://www.deviantart.com/art/Syd-Barrett-44265530 painting by by deermilk http://www.deviantart.com/art/Syd-Barrett-s-Brain-95417720

Songs / Cover versions
main article:

Other works in audio format
Audio edition: Orion Audiobooks, U.K., 2005, ISBN 0-75287-327-X, 3 CDs. (read by Nick Mason) http://www.pinkfloydarchives.com/PFBooks/BooksSM.htm#SMAL Maximum Syd Barrett - The Unauthorized Biography of Syd Barrett Published October 7th 2010 by Blackstone Audiobooks Audio Rob Chapman, Simon Vance ISBN:144176402X (ISBN13: 9781441764027) Pink Floyd's Piper at the Gates of Dawn (33 1/3 Series) [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition]

Other works in printed format
Kevin Ayers - Bananamour tourbook 1973 (with commentary on Syd Barrett) http://www.pinkfloydarchives.com/PFBooks/BooksTFR.htm#KABM73 2010 Calendar available from next week http://www.sydbarrett.com/news_2009.htm

Other works in video format
The animation "Syd Barrett Visits His Accountant" is the only video clip properly published, since it was webcast by Frederator Studios on November 15, 2007, as 9th epidode of the series The Meth Minute 39. In regard to other animations available on the internet, these are two examples:
 * Effervescing Elephant (2013, 1 min 36 sec), by Steve Bobinski
 * Animated Album Cover - Syd Barretts "Barrett" (1970) (2012, 52 sec) by MMXP

Using slideshows to accompany Syd Barret songs as a music video is a common thing for the large number of self-made videos on YouTube, but a bit of originality can be found, for example, in the ones that use different songs:
 * vid4syd - For Syd Barrett (1946 - 2006) (2013, 4 min 16 sec) by MusicbyMrcorbety
 * In Memory of Syd Barrett (2008, 5 min 34 sec) by limpidgreen07

The video The String Quartet - A Classic Rock Tribute To Pink Floyd PART 1 (2010, 7 min 43 sec) includes original shots between a live performance of instrumental covers with strings and piano.

The shots of live performances with audience are listed in the section Other performance works, while the other cover versions, though within a video, should be listed in the separate article List of cover versions of Syd Barrett songs.

Other works in digital format
The constructions of websites devoted to Syd Barrett, in order to host and share news, comments, artworks, etc., aside from thee blogs already listed in the above section Blogs / Fanzines, are the most demanding digital works not already discussed. The reference websites among the Syd Barrett fan communities were and are:
 * The Syd Barrett Archives
 * Astral Piper

In this section are considered also the digital audio files traded or sold only in digital formats like MP3, FLAC or SHN, but not including a release of a musical work.

Although every Syd Barrett recording should not be considered a work about him but rather a work of his own, sometimes the work to assemble a large selection can be considerable. Every official compilation album or box set belongs to the Syd Barrett discography, which counts 69 recordings, but in early 2000s the Yahoo group Laughing Madcaps started to trade a series of CDs, with SHN files, with the purpose of having available in a single collection an all-embracing selection of the recordings previously available only in traded or sold bootlegs: the first 10 discs of the series called Have You Got It Yet? include 118 bootleg recordings, 68 edited version/remixes, 17 interviews/documentaries. Other 11 discs were made around in 2003, with 1 disc with all the Syd Barrett photos availabe on the internet, 1 disc with 20 unreleased covers, already listed in the section Albums (Apr. 2003), and discs with 36 videos, 115 covers and 25 related songs.

hallucalation video

websites

Other performance works
live with syd barrett A tribute concert was held at the Barbican Centre, London on 10 May 2007 city wakes, with video shot focus on syd barrett live on Castelbolognese http://web.archive.org/web/20060513100628/http://www.lucaferrari.net/articoloscritti.php?ID=11 March 17th 2007 - Special Tribute for Syd Barrett to be held in London on May 10th http://www.nme.com/news/syd-barrett/23955