Comparing Pink Floyd And The Rolling Stones

Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones are arguable the two greatest bands to come from England during the 1960's “British Invasion”. Eventually, both bands would end up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1996 and 1989 respectively). Both bands had there roots in the Blues. They were talented, had sex appeal, and were fashion suave. The girls loved them, the guys though they were cool, and everyone was trying to imitate their style. However, despite all the initial success, tragedy would strike both bands early. Drugs and mental illnesses would depredate and destroy both of the young bands' prodigious, iconic front men. Both Brian Jones (The Rolling Stones) and Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd) were out of the bands they had started by the end of the 1960's; a decade in which they helped define.
The multi-musically talented Brian Jones met fellow band mates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in 1962 when Jagger and Richards responded to Jones advertisement in a magazine looking for musicians to audition to try out for a R&B band. Jagger and Richards had become previously enamored with Jones when they saw him play the slide guitar at concert with his old band, the Roosters, and were
They were initially a Blues band, but Barrett's unorthodox method of playing guitar helped them carve out their own unique niche in the burgeoning Psychedelic Rock scene in London. Syd Barrett, not unlike Brian Jones, had an original, flamboyant fashion style that was people were trying to emulate. Also, he was well known to like to have participated in recreational drugs, most notably LSD. Energetic and imaginative, Barrett was Pink Floyd primary song and music writer. His fantastical lyrics was in sync with his psychedelic tone. He was charisma was gravitating and Pink Floyd was becoming a stable in the local underground. Everyone knew them for eccentric front man and their lively, semi-chaotic