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was well within the Pink Floyd camp. It soon became apparent to anyone close to the band that Syd Barrett, the band's innovative, brilliant young songwriter/singer/guitarist, was slowly losing his grip on reality. Some blamed his increasingly erratic behavior on drugs -- Barrett's LSD intake at that time was excessive by any standard. Others pointed to the general pressures of success. Whatever the cause of their leader's disintegration, by the end of 1967, the future of Pink Floyd looked bleak.