Their spacey, psychedelic sound is like nobody else and they put out two well-regarded albums with said student-Syd Barrett-as the creative force. And here it is in a nutshell.Īrt school student takes up singing and the guitar and forms a band with friends under the weird name The Pink Floyd Sound. One of rock’s most enduring legends and cautionary tales (usually with the descriptor “tragic” attached) is that of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd. It will screen in NY and LA theaters in July, with more plans to roll it out after already having been seen at some film festivals. Photo © The Pink Floyd Archive “Storm called me from LA and said ‘We’ve started the film on Syd!’ He was already conducting interviews!” Bogawa says.Īnd thus, years later, we now have the deep-dive documentary Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd (Mercury Studios via Abramorama). But if he thought the decision to go forward was still his, he was mistaken. Intrigued, he spent the summer digesting books about Barrett and other documentaries, and even making a brief outline with Thorgerson and an illustrator about what a potential film would look like. “And so, the next morning we were at breakfast and and Storm said to me ‘So, what are you doing about Syd Barrett, Roddy? Maybe you are the one!” Bogawa laughs via Zoom from his home. It was at a screening of that film that musician Rob Dickinson of the band Catherine Wheel first floated the idea that Bogawa’s next doc should be about Pink Floyd’s “lost” co-founder, Syd Barrett. Though-as Bogawa admits-when a musician friend first brought up that name, he thought it sounded like “some Finnish death metal singer.”Ĭlassic Rock fans know Hipgnosis images from the covers for Pink Floyd records including Atom Heart Mother, The Dark Side of the Moon, and Wish You Were Here, as well as memorable projects for Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC and Genesis. Film poster Later, as a film director, he put another foot in their camp by directing a documentary on the band’s close friend/longtime graphic designer and the firm he co-founded, 2011’s Taken by Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis.
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