March 2009
40 posts
“Emily tries but misunderstands,
She often inclined to borrow somebody’s...”
Pink Floyd's lost muse comes out to play
Only a small and exotic elite can truly claim to have inspired a famous pop song. Warren Beatty was derided in Carly Simon’s ‘You’re So Vain’ (although some maintain that the song is about Mick Jagger),while the model Patti Boyd - rhapsodised in Eric Clapton’s ‘Layla’ and George Harrison’s ‘Something’ - has earned her place twice over.
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saucerfulofsecrets:
Pink Floyd - See Emily Play
“I’d like to be rich. I’d like a lot of money to put into my...”
“I’m disappearing, avoiding most things.
Syd Barrett”
saucerfulofsecrets:
Syd Barrett - No Good Trying
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oneafter909:
Syd Barrett /...
“I don’t think I’m easy to talk about. I’ve got a very...”
“I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on...”
Arnold Layne had a strange hobby Collecting...
•A poem for Syd•
Eyes by John Steele
A withered marble comes across the window And beans upon my head I look up to see it is a statue. It speaks, but speaks no words His sounds are vibrations on the air The air turns pink and crawls in to the floorboards Tomorrow scuttles from behind a clouded landscape to survey the scene. His eyes pick up the thoughts as they Bounce across the flame. The statue turns quietly....
“SYD’S SAD FAREWELL”
Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun. Shine on you crazy diamond. Now there’s a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky. Shine on you crazy diamond. You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom, blown on the steel breeze. Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine! You reached for the secret too...
“Baby Lemonade”-SYD BARRETT