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Fact #102117

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Short story:

The Spectrum Five play the first of two nights at Beat City, Oxford Street, London, UK. Their line-up includes Syd Barrett, Nick Mason and Richard Wright, who will all find greater fame as members of Pink Floyd.

Full article:

Roger Waters (bass, Pink Floyd] : I'd had a guitar in Cambridge, but I never really played it much. Nick and Rick were both there doing the same course and we had a kind of blues group when we were in our second year. Then Syd came up to London - he'd lived round the corner from me in Cambridge but I didn't really know him very well because he was a couple of years younger than me.