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Wright taught himself how to play piano (and several other instruments) as a jazz-mad child growing up in London, and brought a sense of improvisation to the R&B group he formed with school friends Roger Waters and Nick Mason. When Syd Barrett joined in 1965, the band was renamed and redirected, matching Barrett's weirdness and whimsy with orchestral swells and experimentalism. After Barrett left the group because of mental instability and was replaced by Gilmour, the cohesiveness at the core was never quite the same. Waters seized creative control and reportedly threatened not to release...
...Global Contender Re your story on New York, London and Hong Kong and their status as global financial and trade hubs: Rather than celebrating Ny-lon-kong, you should have hailed New-syd-don [Jan. 28]. Sydney is a larger city than Hong Kong, and more companies have their Asia-Pacific regional headquarters there. The Australian Stock Exchange, based in Sydney, is among the world's 10 biggest and No. 3 in the Asia-Pacific. Sydney is one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities: about 3 in 10 residents come from overseas, representing 170 countries. In asserting that Hong...
...that, in Stoppard's view, was as potent a force for revolution as Vaclav Havel's speeches. Scenes are punctuated with the sounds of groups like the Rolling Stones and the Plastic People of the Universe, a Czech band imprisoned during the Soviet crackdown--with a special nod to Syd Barrett, a founding member of Pink Floyd, who was ousted by his band over his erratic, drug-fueled, near psychotic behavior...
...group finally broke through for a goal in the final frame. Sarah Wilson fed the puck to McLean in front of the net, and with Krakower on the doorstep distracting Huskies netminder Syd Arbelbide, McLean, with her back turned, flipped a backhand shot into...
...SYD'S SOUND SURVIVES The death of Syd Barrett, a founding member of Pink Floyd, had fans remembering when the band was young. Our Feb. 25, 1980, story on the album The Wall underscored how the trippy troubadours maintained their psychedelic sound...