Resultado de búsqueda
Michelle Coomber hosts a rare and exclusive interview with Jenny Spires, ex-girlfriend and lifelong friend of Syd Barrett. Jenny talks of her life with Syd and hanging out with Pink Floyd, her experiences with the in-crowd and watching the moon landing with Jerry Garcia!
In December 1964, 18-year-old Syd met 15-year-old Jenny Spires at Cambridge’s Union Cellar. Jenny has tried to keep her privacy and stayed away from books she dismisses as “lop-sided”, TV docs and interviews; until now. “He came up and introduced himself,” she recalls. “Unbeknown to me he had sketched a picture of me ...
Syd was Jenny's first boyfriend, but of course she was still only 15 and at school, so whilst they were in love, it became by necessity more of a deep friendship than a full-on affair.
Pink Floyd guitarist Syd Barrett wrote this for his girlfriend, Jenny Spires. In the song, Syd shows her his bike, which he borrowed. He also shows her his mouse named Gerald, a clan of gingerbread men and a cloak.
Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett’s one-time girlfriend Jenny Spires was at Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia’s house on July 20, 1969, to watch the historic landing on the moon.
It was there that a chance meeting with Jenny Spires, an ex-girlfriend from the Floyd days, led to Syd being introduced to Spires’ then-husband, a 23-year-old bassist called Jack Monck. “Jenny was very protective of him,” remembers Monck, “and I think he felt safe around her and, by extension, me.
This song was likely about Syd’s girlfriend, Jenny Spires, who he had a very close relationship with; in Spires' words, “he was my first boyfriend and that always seemed to draw us back ...
