founder-turned-recluse-turned-mythic cult icon, has shared its first trailer ahead of its U.S. release this summer.features new interviews with the band’s surviving members — Roger Waters , Nick Mason, and David Gilmour — to provide insight intomastermind’s meteoric rise, acid-fueled breakdown and eventual exile from the band.
“There are some people who must have a weakness of some sort, like a switch waiting to be turned, and that switch will go, and they’ll never quite come back,” Gilmour says in a voiceover in the trailer. The documentary — named after an unreleased song Barrett brought to his final practice with Pink Floyd — also includes interviews with legions of the artists inspired by Barrett’s brief tenure with the band — The Who’s Pete Townshend, Blur’s Graham Coxon, MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden and more — plus former Pink Floyd managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King, playwright Tom Stoppard and Barrett’s sister Rosemary Breen.
The film was directed by Roddy Bogawa and the late album cover designer Storm Thorgerson, who created iconic Pink Floyd covers like“Would anyone care about the story of Syd Barrett if Pink Floyd hadn’t become one of the biggest bands of all time? Would Pink Floyd have existed without Syd?” Bogawa said in a statement.
“I miss Storm probably in the same way as many of those in our film miss Syd, a friend who they dearly loved and shared fond memories and adventures — Syd just happened to become one of the most famous cult icons in music.”
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