My favorite rock & roll anecdote about Pink Floyd’s founder Syd Barrett visiting the band after they had not seen him for years….
According to the Pink Floyd autobiography A Saucerful of Secrets by Nicholas Schaffner, when Barrett came into the control room, the remaining members of Pink Floyd were listening to the finished recording of the album. This was the eve before Pink Floyd were going on a US tour. David Gilmour didn’t recognize him at first – they hadn’t seen him in years. Syd was fat, bald, had shaved eyebrows and was wearing a white trenchcoat with white shoes. When someone tried to break the ice by asking Syd how he had put on so much weight, he maniacally replied, “I’ve got a very large fridge in the kitchen, and I’ve been eating a lot of pork chops!” That was the last time any of the Pink Floyd members have seen him.