Name:
Roger Keith (Syd) Barret
Born: January 6th, 1946.
Guitar, Vocals
Syd had a normal
childhood and loving parents. He was a popular and successful student,
and his passions ranged from camping and sports to drama and painting.
He was once a Boy Scout patrol leader.
Dr. Barrett
encouraged Syd's musical interest with the gift of a banjo, and later,
a guitar. Dr. Barrett died when Syd was just 14. It's been proposed
that this trauma was the first 'catalyst' in Syd's eventual dementia.
Syd and Dave were
friends at a very early age, and while attending school, they would
hang out together, teaching each other guitar....Dave was the better
guitarist, and Syd's talent lay in words and lyrics...they would flow
from him easily, according to Dave.
The founding member
of the band that so many today admire and respect, today lives in
seclusion and in ill health....a once brilliant mind destroyed by
drugs. Syd is a legacy and a lesson for all.
Name: George Roger
Waters
Born: September 9th, 1943.
Bass, Vocals
Roger has 2 children,
Harry and India with Priscilla, has been married to Jude and Carolyn.
Roger's father was killed in action at Anzio, only a few months after
he was born. As a young teen, Roger's pursuits included playing with
toy guns (& shooting real ones), and staying up at night listening
to his radio tuned to Armed Forces Network or Radio Luxembourg.
He did not like
apprenticeship as a naval cadet, quit, and was given a dishonorable
discharge. He instead became chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear
Disarmament's local youth chapter.
Roger's life from the
beginning, and still is, a conscious and unconscious mourning for the
father he never knew, and hatred of the hierarchy of circumstances
that robbed him of his father.
While Roger's lyrical
'brilliance' of the past cannot be denied, his inability to come to
terms with his grief and hatred eventually wore out its welcome with
the majority of his fans. Roger quit Pink Floyd in the mid 1980's.
Name: Richard William
Wright
Born: July 28th, 1945.
Keyboards
Rick has 3 children,
Gala, Jamie, and a young son, by former marriage. He is presently
married to Millie.
For Rick as a young
man, he was at a loss for a career to pursue at the prep school he
attended, until someone suggested architecture. The Regent Street Poly
is where he met Nick and Roger. Rick didn't want to be an architect
however, he wanted to be a musician... the rest is history. Rick came
back to life, so to speak, with TDB... he co-wrote WTIO with Anthony
Moore, and co-wrote Cluster One, WDYWFM, Marooned and KT with Dave.
One of Rick's
favorite things to do is get away on his 65-foot sailing yacht
whenever he has the opportunity.
Name: Nicholas
Berkeley Mason
Born: January 27th, 1945.
Drums
Nick has 3 children,
Holly, Chloe and Carey with Lynette, and is presently married to
Annette.
Nick was born with
the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth. He accompanied his father to
Vintage Sports Car Club events at an early age, and later inherited
and developed his passion for racing and collecting vintage
automobiles. At the Frensham Heights boarding school, it is said Nick
is still remembered as a world class mischief maker.
Today, Nick races
Ferrari's, Bugatti's, and Maserati's, among others that he also races
and owns for his own enjoyment.
Name: David Jon Gilmour
Born: March 6th, 1946.
Guitar, Vocals
Has 7
children....Sara, Clare, Alice and Matthew by Ginger, Joe and Gabriel
by Polly, and Charlie who is Polly's son by a first marriage.
In contrast to Roger,
Dave was reared by permissive and easygoing parents. At 13, he was
given a Spanish guitar by a neighbor and so the journey began. Dave's
greatest musical asset is his sense of feel and timing, according to
one former member of Jokers Wild, and to some present day fans, we
would have to say that his talents reach beyond that to include a
marriage of heart to guitar and tender concern for humanity.
When Dave was a young
teenager, his father's profession drew him overseas, to the U.S.,
leaving Dave to independently fend for himself....playing U.S.
military bases with Jokers Wild, and working odd jobs, including his
famous stint as a male model. All of this helped to instill in Dave,
his underlying grit and a single-minded determination to succeed on
his own terms...that was to resurface during the Floydian 'wars' much
later....and it was to carry him through in the future, to the ringing
of a Division Bell and beyond.
Dave enjoys flying,
among other interests, and his collection consists of vintage aircraft
that he has shown, and flown, at various air shows. His first love,
however, is still his music.
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Today's
Pink Floyd only has three original members, David Gilmour, Nick Mason,
and Richard Wright.
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Roger Waters has his own solo career and Syd Barrett is no longer in the
music business.
Information
presented on this page was taken from the following website: Pink
Floyd
