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Pink Floyd play at Hastings Pier, Hastings, England, UK, Europe. This is believed to have been the last gig at which Syd Barrett played with the group.
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David Gilmour (guitarist, Pink Floyd) : He went mad. I mean, I don't know why exactly. People have bandied about all sorts of theories about why they think he went mad. I'm not at all as clear on it as a lot of people who don't know anything about it are.
He was a very close friend of mine when I was about 14. And, he went mad. I watched him go mad, and saw it all the way through, and ah, I produced two albums with him afterwards - solo albums, and I probably know him as well as anyone in this world knows him, but you know, one just doesn't know. People have said all the stuff about it being acid and all that sort of stuff which he certainly had done, but so had all sorts of other people who didn't go mad. I mean, who knows?
I don't understand these things well enough to make hard and fast, you know, assertions as to exactly why he went mad, but go mad he did - there's no question about that. He still is, what you would call, what I would call... unable to communicate with people.
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He was a very close friend of mine when I was about 14. And, he went mad. I watched him go mad, and saw it all the way through, and ah, I produced two albums with him afterwards - solo albums, and I probably know him as well as anyone in this world knows him, but you know, one just doesn't know. People have said all the stuff about it being acid and all that sort of stuff which he certainly had done, but so had all sorts of other people who didn't go mad. I mean, who knows?
I don't understand these things well enough to make hard and fast, you know, assertions as to exactly why he went mad, but go mad he did - there's no question about that. He still is, what you would call, what I would call... unable to communicate with people.
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