Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, and artist. He is most remembered as a founding member of progressive rock pioneers Pink Floyd, providing major musical and stylistic direction in their early work, although he left the group in 1968 amidst stories of mental illness and burnout due to drug use.

He was active as a rock musician for about seven years, recording two albums with Pink Floyd and three influential solo albums before going into self-imposed seclusion lasting more than thirty years. His post-rock band life was as an artist and keen gardener, ending with his death in 2006, and a number of biographies have been written about him since the 1980s. During his withdrawal from public life there were numerous speculative, although largely appreciative works done for him, most notably his former band Pink Floyd's 1975 album Wish You Were Here.

Roger Keith (“Syd”) Barrett (born January 6, 1946 in Cambridge , England , died 7th July 2006 in Cambridge, England) was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. Best remembered as one of the founding members of the group Pink Floyd , Barrett was active as a rock musician for only a few years, before mental instability forced him into obscurity, but he has been remarkably influential. Pink Floyd (originally called both “Tea Set” and “The Pink Floyd Sound”, then later “The Pink Fl