On this date, Barrett left the entry in his diary blank. His father died of cancer on 11 December 1961, less than a month before Barrett's 16th birthday. Later, in 1957, he attended Cambridgeshire High School for Boys with Waters. Īt one point at Morley Memorial Junior School he was taught by the mother of future Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters. He would never have allowed it." He was a Scout with the 7th Cambridge troop and went on to be a patrol leader. His sister Rosemary said: "He was never Syd at home.
He used both names interchangeably for several years. Īnother account is that when he was 13, his schoolmates nicknamed him "Syd" after he showed up to a field day at Abington Scout site wearing a flat cap instead of his Scout beret because "Syd" was a "working-class" name. One story of how Barrett acquired the nickname "Syd" is that at the age of 14 he was named after an old local Cambridge jazz double bassist, Sid "The Beat" Barrett, which claims Syd Barrett changed the spelling to differentiate himself from his namesake. A year after he purchased his first acoustic guitar, he bought his first electric guitar and built his own amplifier. He bought a ukulele aged 10, a banjo at 11 and a Hofner acoustic guitar at 14. īarrett played piano occasionally but usually preferred writing and drawing. In 1951, his family moved to 183 Hills Road. His father, Arthur Max Barrett, was a prominent pathologist and was said to be related to Elizabeth Garrett Anderson through Max's maternal grandmother Ellen Garrett. Roger Keith Barrett was born on 6 January 1946 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire to a middle-class family living at 60 Glisson Road.
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