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...“Wait, before I go insane,” he chants in a frazzled Syd Barrett voice: “Just reach out and touch my face.” Groundedness is provided by the comfortingly heavy sound of an electric guitar....
...or the banished Pink Floyd luminary Syd Barrett?) feels like a hackneyed distraction....
...It opens with a charmingly whimsical guitar riff reminiscent of Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd. The song is called “Tiny Galaxies”, one of several tracks with cosmic associations....
...Loewy commissioned Syd Mead, a designer who would go on to create the haunted passages of the USS Sulaco, the spaceship in Aliens, to visualise his design....
...Syd Barrett was the only former member of the band to be mentioned, commemorated by an epic combination of “Wish You Were Here” and parts of “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”....
...At the end, there is a synth-pop styled Neşet Ertaş cover; then on “Içinde Uyanıyoruz Hakikatin” Akyol asserts her kinship with Syd Barrett and Brian Jones even as the lyrics take a ride on an Anatolian...
...But when Syd is launched at the British Museum, terrorists attack. Tobias is murdered and Syd disappears....
...the Day Judith O’Reilly, Head of Zeus, RRP£18.99 Rip-roaring, Tarantino-esque adventure featuring haunted former assassin Michael North and his mini-crew on the trail of terrorists who have kidnapped “Syd...
...“As far as trying to emulate Syd,” Kemp says, “I’m singing Syd by having taken the baton through [David Bowie’s persona as] Ziggy Stardust, through Johnny Rotten. Because that’s how I view it....
...The limited-edition portraits – which also include shots of Syd Barrett, David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Kate Moss – will be available in various sizes....
...It is the ex-Pink Floyd guitarist Syd Barrett. “People who never set foot beyond the Land of the Sane just don’t understand,” he tells Jasper, helpfully signalling his impending psychic collapse....
...In contrast, Stanley dances down the street in delight after finally getting Syd to notice him....
...US R&B singer Syd, vocalist with The Internet, trills lightly over scuffed-up beats and house music piano in “Doorman”....
...The home, a stylish, modernist building arranged on one level and completed in 1979, was designed by the architect Syd Furness for himself and his family....
...I Have to Feed Larry’s Hawk duly contains echoes of whimsical Syd Barrett (“Fog City”) and a disheveled glam rock band (“Neighborhood Light”). But it also evades the dangers of retro-worship....
...“Assault and Battery” belied its title once strings were overlaid, and in the affectless two-part harmonies of Dave Brock and Magnus Martin you could hear echoes of Syd Barrett and Roger Waters’ singing...
...Was Gary Kemp, late of Spandau Ballet and the writer of none-less-lysergic hits such as “Gold”, really going to be singing the songs written by rock’s most famous acid casualty, Syd Barrett?...
...The Internet were formed by two ex-members of the Los Angeles group, Syd Bennett and Matt Martians....
...The song proceeds to try to lighten the mood with mazy but mellow melodies, encouraging blasts of the trumpet and breathy backing vocals from Longstreth’s fellow Californian resident, R&B singer Syd, a typical...
...The title is a Syd Barrett-style pun on the small town in the south of France where it was recorded, Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort....
...On the front row were Nas, who just released an album produced by Kanye West, A$AP Ferg, Syd and Keith Ape. “I wanted to relate to this generation,” said Piccioli....
...It takes the form of a letter by Roger “Syd” Barrett, the group’s doomed founder-member, written to his then-girlfriend in 1965. He draws her a small picture of the band’s freshly decorated van....
...Craig David appears on the smooth R&B charmer “Got It Good” and The Internet’s Syd the Kyd contributes a wonderfully hazy vocal to the relaxed disco-funk of “You’re the One”....
...In between come 13 scruffy songs, brief, a bit scrappy but hypnotically paced, Donovan casting himself as a fuzz-rock Syd Barrett, dreaming of happier days....
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