How the core Pink Floyd members met at architecture school and an art college

The band’s original rhythm section and keyboardist all met at London’s Regent Street Polytechnic in the early 1960s. Roger Waters and Nick Mason were both studying architecture there and started jamming together around 1962. Richard Wright was also in the architecture program, though he’d already been to the London College of Music; he joined Waters and Mason in a loose student group that went through names like Sigma 6, The Abdabs, and The Screaming Abdabs.

The missing piece was Syd Barrett. He and Roger Waters had known each other since childhood in Cambridge, but Syd had moved to London to study painting at Camberwell School of Art. In 1964, Bob Klose—another architecture student