HAVE YOU GOT IT YET: The Impossible Song That Broke Pink Floyd (Video Essay)

What is a song that is designed never to be played? In a London rehearsal room in nineteen sixty-eight, Syd Barrett tried to teach Pink Floyd a new composition, and every time they got close to learning it, he changed it, so that they could never catch it, never finish it, never get it. Its title was a question he kept asking them: have you got it yet? And the answer, forever, was no. So when a genius writes a song whose only real subject is that you will never understand him, is he playing a cruel joke, or telling you the most honest truth of his life? Jorge Lucio de Campos