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From: kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: The Wall
Message-ID: <2499@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 14:13:02 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  2 14:13:02 1985
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Reply-To: kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch)
Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA.
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Keywords: About Syd or Roger?
Summary: 

In article <260@mit-eddie.UUCP> nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) writes:
>
>> To me, the Wall seems to be a more complete and elaborate retelling of
>> the tale that the Album Wish You Were Here tells, and I beleive that
>> the general consensus is that WYWH is about Syd...
>
>It is?  "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is surely about Syd, but I don't
>think the rest of the album is.  "Have A Cigar" is clearly *not* about
>Syd.
>
>> (btw, does anyone know what has happened to him? I heard he was
>> released...).
>
>Released?  Was he ever locked up?  The last I heard, he was living at
>home with his mother.  Though, that info is a little old.  As soon as I
>receive my Syd Barret fanzines, maybe I can tell you more.
>

I read in an interview with Gilmour and Waters that The whole Wish you were
here album is about Barrett. In "Have a Cigar" the line "Oh by the way
which one's Pink?" was really supposed to have been asked to the band in
their early stages. Syd was supposed to have come into the studio while
they were doing "Shine On" and it supposedly had an amazing effect on the band.
He was supposed to have looked a complete mess. Yes, he was once locked up and
if I remember coorectly, he was again locked up recently because supposedly
he hads gotten even worse than he was before.



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                              Paul Kirsch
                              St. Joseph's University
                              Philadelphia, Pa

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