Syd Barrett - Intel by John Hill-Turner

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Syd Barrett In 1972, Syd Barrett formed a short-lived band called Stars with ex-Pink Fairies member Twink on drums and Jack Monck on bass. Though the band was initially well received, one of their gigs at the Cambridge Corn Exchange proved to be disastrous (Monck describes just how disastrous it was in a TV interview in 2001 for the BBC Omnibus series documentary 'Crazy Diamond'). A few days after this final show, Twink recalled that Barrett stopped him on the street, showed him a scathing review of the gig they had played, and quit on the spot. However, John Hill-Turner remembers his girlfriend Mary Jane Walton-Bell subsequently asking Stars to play what turned out to be their final disastrous (lunchtime) session at their café, The Dandelion, in City Road, Cambridge and believes this to be the last time Syd played with Stars. In fact the band played only one number before Barrett withdrew to the back garden and rode round on a white bicycle for a while before leaving.