Joy of a Toy by Kevin Ayers (November 1969): plays guitar on 'Religious Experience' (' Singing a Song in the Morning') – bonus track on remastered 2003 CD.'-' denotes a release that did not chart. The Best of Syd Barrett: Wouldn't You Miss Me? Live List of live albums, with selected chart positionsĬompilations List of compilation albums, with selected chart positions Solo career Albums Studio List of studio albums, with selected chart positions The album was released by Pink Floyds former American label, Capitol Records, to compete with their then-current studio album The Final Cut.The album is particularly notable for including the track 'Embryo,' an outtake from the Ummagumma album that later became a concert staple in a greatly elongated form. In 2004, the five songs from Top Gear, and three songs from a then-newly discovered tape of Bob Harris show, were released as The Radio One Sessions. These songs were released as a mini-album, in 1987, as Syd Barrett: The Peel Session. On 24 February 1970, he recorded five songs (one from The Madcap Laughs, three from Barrett, and a one-off, 'Two of a Kind') for the BBC Radio show Top Gear. Both albums, released in 1970, were re-released as a double album in 1974, after the unexpected success of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. To this day, his Pink Floyd songs are used frequently on the band's various compilations.Īfter he left Pink Floyd, he recorded two solo albums, The Madcap Laughs and Barrett. With the band, he recorded and wrote the majority of songs for their first album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, and was credited for one song (' Jugband Blues') on their second album A Saucerful of Secrets. Syd Barrett (1946–2006) was an English rock musician who was best known as the original frontman and primary songwriter of Pink Floyd.

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