“Roger would always disappear for a few days to write lyrics and he came up with this tribute to Syd. It was a remarkable coincidence that, not long after we’d finished recording ‘Shine On…’, Syd wandered into the studio at Abbey Road. “For years after he left, Syd was the elephant in the room when it came to Pink Floyd. The thing was that the Syd I knew hadn’t been around for a long time. If I have one regret it’s that I’d not been more forceful with his family and gone to visit Syd in Cambridge.