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00:00My relationship with Sid Barrett has always been constant.
00:08He was always my favorite.
00:09I love Gilmore, I love all the painful I'd love, and they're amazing.
00:13But Sid is like this sort of weird beacon.
00:16He's like 1966, he's like Arthur Lee.
00:19They're like these people that were...
00:21I mean, they're psychedelic, obviously,
00:22but they're just that 1966 purity.
00:26I liked his style, I liked his walk,
00:28I liked the way he talks, you know.
00:30There's something very English, isn't there, about the Sid Barrett?
00:32Gardens, flowers, sheds, ponds, it's sort of dragonflies,
00:36it's that, it's very specific, that thing.
00:40I think that's why Americans love it.
00:44Shine On, what a song.
00:47It's a movement, isn't it? It's like classical music.
00:49Pink Floyd almost transcends the genre,
00:52they're almost classical, they're almost...
00:55They're everything, aren't they?
00:56When you think about the soundtrack to your life,
00:58it's always something like Pink Floyd.
01:00It's not, you know, it's always that kind of...
01:04Yes, it's cinematic, and it's classical, and it's cool, and it's...
01:10Yeah, it's amazing.
01:11Sid was probably the pioneer of that.
01:13So he was kind of the pin-up, wasn't he, of psychedelia?
01:16He was the pin-up poster boy for psychedelia,
01:18because he's so good-looking and so stylish and so elusive.
01:22Even in the early days, really enigmatic.
01:24You couldn't really ever pin him down.
01:26So I suppose he left, but because he didn't die, he left, he was still alive.
01:31And so when I listened to that, and the lyrics are fantastic, and the guitar is so good.
01:39And you just think of Sid, it's like a beautiful tribute, isn't it?
01:42And the fact that he turned up.
01:44How did he know it was happening?
01:46I mean, how did he get there?
01:48I think about that often.
01:51Did he get a cab?
01:52Who told him they were...
01:53I mean, how did he even know?
01:55It's so bizarre.
01:56It sounds like a made-up story, but there's photographs of him in the studio.
01:59I know, it was obviously really traumatic for them, and upsetting, but...
02:03How did he get there?
02:05I think about that a lot.
02:06Was he happy?
02:08What was he doing?
02:09What was he thinking?
02:10Was he painting again?
02:14What a cover!
02:15It's sort of two men shaking hands, and one's on fire.
02:18It's like a Magritte image or something.
02:20And the Dark Side of the Moon cover as well, incredible.
02:23So the artwork was as good as the music, but it was also timeless.
02:27So you don't know, who are these people?
02:29Who are the Pink Floyd?
02:30What does it mean?
02:32What's this image?
02:33When you're 12, and you're seeing two guys shaking hands, one of them is on fire.
02:37And the music goes exactly with that as well.
02:40So the music is perfectly in sync with the visuals, with the weird surrealism, with the weird sort of eccentric.
02:47And that's all very Sid Barrett as well, you know?
02:50And obviously, it's all of them, but it's...
02:53Yeah, there's something brilliantly timeless about them, and that is the most perfection, that album.
02:59So beautiful.
03:00The lyrics on Have a Cigar are amazing as well.
03:02It's funny and cool, and guitar is out of control.
03:07I love Storm Thorgsen.
03:09Album covers like Wish You Were Here, I probably saw them before I ever saw a Magritte painting, you know?
03:14Or a Max Ernst painting.
03:16And then when I saw a Magritte painting, or Dahlia, I was like, oh, okay.
03:21There was something there, but it was photographic, you know, photography, rather than painting.
03:26It is a masterpiece, though, that album, Kazza, and that album.
03:30It's a masterpiece.
03:31And it's based on Sid Barrett, who is a walking masterpiece.
03:36And that's the only bit you'll use.
03:38Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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