Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Richard Wright and Syd Barrett lived in the house in the 1960s.

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Further north, on Peckham Road, is the small but influential South London Gallery (SLG) and the Camberwell College of Arts, whose alumni include Mike Leigh, a filmmaker, and Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd's legendary acid-casualty guitarist.

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But a lack of popular recognition, combined with the increasing fragility of his health, led Syd Barrett to abandon the music industry altogether and, despite a couple of abortive attempts to re-ignite his career, Barrett remained, for more than 30 years, British rock music's greatest recluse.

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