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Posted: 2022-01-27T09:02:38Z | Updated: 2022-01-27T09:02:38Z

Before Pink Floyd became one of the worlds biggest stadium acts from the 1970s through the 1990s, the band had some much smaller and far stranger public appearances.

One of its first U.S. television appearances was a surreal performance on Dick Clarks American Bandstand in 1967, in which the band mimed its way though the song Apples and Oranges.

New restored footage by Swedish artist Alex Stubbe Teglbjrg , a.k.a. Artist on the border , shows how the band at the time Syd Barrett on guitar and vocals, Roger Waters on bass, Rick Wright on keyboards and Nick Mason on drums didnt exactly crank up the enthusiasm.

But what most stood out was the indifferent appearance of Barrett, the bands increasingly troubled leader who was slowly being consumed by his struggles with both drug use and mental illness:

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