Sad, in my view someone who deserverd the title 'Legend'
Always kept his act different but trendy. Not always to peoples taste in his style of music, but very influentional.
My first memories.
Space Oddity, summer 1969, played so much just after we all got excited about the moon landings, launched his career, remember it well, singing it in the school yard, and also those stylophone adverts christmas 1970.
There was also his 1967 laughing Gnome that he did, so 'Syd Barrett' that was a hit on childrens radio in the late 1970s.
So many personas since then, and have loved or been mixed on his differing styles over the years. But his uniquue way of changing styles always kept an older and captured a new audience.
RIP