Gilmour expressed the desire to see Barrett again in an interview with Italian website La Repubblica Spettacoli & Cultura in 2006, a few months before Syd’s death, saying: “Yes, I would have liked (To have visited him in the last decades). I’d love to go and see him one of these days and maybe I will – before it’s too late”. In an interview with Word magazine in 2006, before Syd’s death, Gilmour was asked if he considered inviting Barrett to play with him on his recent solo album “On an Island” and he answered explaining why he couldn’t reach his ex-bandmate: “No, I leave Syd alone. So they decided to tell Waters, Gilmour, Mason and Wright to leave Syd alone and don’t talk to him anymore. Why Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour never talked with Syd Barrett after the 70sĪccording to Pink Floyd members they couldn’t visit or talk to Syd Barrett because his family said that anything related to the band, especially the musicians, would hurt his feelings. ![]() In interviews in the last decades David Gilmour explained the reason why he and the other Pink Floyd members never talked with Barrett until his death at the age of 60 in 2006. The only member of the band that saw Barrett face to face after that was Roger Waters, who had a brief encounter in the departament store Harrods with Barrett, who “scuttled away” when he saw Waters. ![]() ![]() But the last time they saw their ex-bandmate was in 1975 when he appeared without being invited in the “Wish You Were Here” album sessions and watched the band record. Richard Wright, Waters and Gilmour later produced Barrett’s solo albums in 1970 to help him.
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