Syd Barrett was an English musician and artist who had a net worth of $500 thousand at the time of his death. Syd Barrett was best known as the co-founder and original frontman of the English rock band Pink Floyd. He recorded four singles with the band, as well as its debut album “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” and parts of its second album, “A Saucerful of Secrets.” After being ousted from Pink Floyd on account of his copious psychedelic drug use and unstable behavior, Barrett had a brief solo career before retiring from public life entirely in 1972.