Pink Floyd drummer says ‘we should have toured The Dark Side of the Moon for longer’ | Music | Entertainment
Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets, with Guy Pratt and Gary Kemp, play live in Canada (Image: Getty)
Those early albums encompass the music of Pink Floyd’s first singer, Syd Barrett, who left in 1968, dropping out of music altogether four years later. A reclusive figure until his death in 2006, it’s unclear exactly why Barrett walked away from music.
“When Syd wrote for the band, the first six months of Pink Floyd were very happy,” reflects Mason, now 80. “Then it got very sr sad, as Syd more…
