[larodi]

"When you were young, the light shined so bright. Shine on, you crazy diamond"

a song from the same bygone time, we'll romanticizing about, we've not really even started romanticizing about yet.

[derwiki]

IIRC that was very specifically about Syd Barrett, the first Pink Floyd frontman, who took* too much acid and “retired early.”

* it is super lame that people dosed him without his consent

[larodi]

Indeed, and while they did the recording for Dark Side of the Moon he miraculously, almost creepily appeared in the studio. They did not recognize him - bald head and all.

I did not know Sid got dozed without consent, but this is not something to do to people. There was knew a girl who was doing it and eventually everyone figured out and started avoiding her like plague.