![]() ![]() ![]() The hippie wave itself would crash against the Hells Angels at the Altamont concert in 1969, where one of them stabbed dead a gun-wielding teenager, leaving behind assorted flotsam and jetsam. But Barrett’s excessive use of psychedelic drugs and apparent mental health issues would soon take their toll and he was kicked out of the band in 1968. The band’s main songwriter, Syd Barrett, channelled that utopian euphoria through his childlike, off-kilter sensibilities to create a record that aligned perfectly with the heady, lysergic mood of the counterculture. When Pink Floyd released their debut album, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, in 1967, the “Summer of Love” was in full swing. ![]()
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