by Gian Palacios  http://www.pink-
floyd.org/barrett/sydarticle.html ]  'So beautiful and strange
and new!  Since it was to end all too soon, I almost wish I had
never heard it. Nothing seems worthwhile but just to hear that
sound once more and go on listening to forever. No!  There it is
again!' he cried,          from 'The Wind in the Willows' by
Kenneth Grahame  .....And so it must have been, turning the
dials of a small radio set in the early days of Spring 1967. The
distant crackle of Radio Caroline, one of the numerous pirate
radio stations broadcasting from off the English shored,
spilling forth an exotic, mysterious sound. 'See Emily Play' by
the Pink Floyd. Along with John Lennon, Roger 'Syd' Barrett
created psychedelic music. The English version of psychedelia,
as opposed to the strain found in San Francisco, was a melange
of indigenous folk, traces of 1940s pop, vestiges of the blues
and Mod boom of the preceeding years, informed by the anarchic
wail of free jazz, and a strong dose of the peculiarly Englis