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SYD BARRETT'S SECRET FILM!

2:00 PM GMT 28/09/2007

SYD BARRETT'S SECRET FILM!

"Syd and I were trying to make a new kind of film," explains Stern now. "No linear structure, but consisting of music and fragments, and lots of little 30-second episodes. Like an aid to meditation - to give the viewer a sense of oneness." Syd would never see the film through to completion, but Stern did, later pitching it to Pink Floyd at the height of their fame.

Blake has also unearthed a number of previously unseen pictures, including this one of David Gilmour (top left) photographed on top of the Cambridge School Of Art's rag week float in 1965. Gilmour was then fronting his own band Jokers Wild, and travelled to St Tropez that summer, spending a fortnight hitchhiking and busking around France with Syd Barrett. “Dave was always more clean-cut than Syd, though,” remembers one old college friend. “He had a college look, an American style of dress, and it went down very well with the women.”


Almost a hundred former associates, ex-band members, producers, girlfriends, managers, roadies and others are interviewed for Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story Of Pink Floyd. It’s in bookshops from October 4, but you can win one of five gratis copies by answering this Floydian conundrum…

The title of Syd Barrett’s song, Chapter 24, was taken from which source book for ’60s heads?

a) The I Chingb) The Naked Lunchc) The Doors Of Perception

Email your answers to Editor@mojo4music.com, with the subject line Floydian Conundrum, and if you’re one of five pulled out of the MOJO kepi on October 8, you’ll receive a book that looks something like this...


And for more information about Pigs Might Fly go to www.markrblake.com.

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Competition Terms & Conditions• No prizes can be traded or exchanged for a cash alternative• Closing date for this competition is October 8• All entrants are responsible for including correct contact details• The judges decision is final and no negotiation or debate will be entered into.• All winners will be notified by email.• This competition is open to all UK readers, except employees and associates of Emap. And their families. And pets.

Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 2:00 PM GMT 28/09/2007

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  • Mr. Blake, I just read your new Barrett "MOJO" article here on your site and it's excellent! I look forward to buying your book here in the USA. Hopefully it will be available to "us foreigners" SOON!
    Best Wishes,
    Syd Crain

    Posted by Syd Crain at 5:42 AM GMT 29/09/2007 Report Abuse

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  • That's a photo of Syd Barrett with a short haircut, not David Gilmour.

    Posted by Paul at 9:17 PM GMT 12/10/2010 Report Abuse

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