A genius on the pitch but a real trouble magnet. Ben Stokes (pictured) has been known to damage his dressing- room locker after having an off- day with the ball So short is his temper, that when Ben Stokes – English cricket's answer to Superman – makes a rare low score with the bat or has an off- day with the ball, he has been known to damage his dressing- room locker. Aware that the match- winning all- rounder has a self- destructive fuse, opponents goad him with insults designed to send him into a blind rage and put him off his game. England's team psychologist has tried everything to help Stokes keep his cool, the latest tactic being to urge him to slowly and methodically pack every item of equipment in his kitbag on returning to the pavilion, in the hope that he might calm down during the ten minutes it takes to complete this laborious task. According to those close to the flame- haired firebrand, whose thrillingly explosive playing style is comparable with that of the legendary Sir Ian Botham, it seemed to be working.

In the early hours of Monday, however, when he became embroiled in a shameful street brawl, it appeared nothing would have stopped him in his tracks. The behaviour of this 6ft colossus outside a Bristol nightclub – where he had been drinking with team- mates to celebrate a victory over the West Indies – was caught on a mobile phone video, obtained by a red- top newspaper. The trouble began after Stokes and other England players went on a bar crawl in an area of Bristol thronging with students out for fun during 'fresher's week' at the city's university. According to one witness, when the cricketer was drinking in a club called Mbargo he heard two gay men being insulted, and when he spoke out to defend them an argument broke out. At that point, no punches were thrown. But when Stokes and Hales left the club, and by chance met the alleged abusers again in the street, a fight broke out. Paying no heed to fellow England player Alex Hales, who was apparently trying to draw him away from trouble, and summoning the freakish strength that enables him to smite sixes over the grandstand roof, Stokes powered into action, striking what appeared to be a bottle from one man's hand.

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The sound of shattering glass echoed around the deserted street. His night out in Bristol was caught on camera and the cricket star was later arrested by police. Then, after an ugly pavement grapple, he got up, advanced on the second man, and floored him with one devastating blow. By now the first man was backing away, but Stokes made for him in his bright white trainers and slapped him. The video, apparently shot from a building overlooking the fracas, spans barely 6.

For Stokes, the England Test team and cricket as a whole – still regarded as a game played by gentlemen – the repercussions of this unedifying incident will be disastrous. Now 2. 6 years old, and thought to have matured sufficiently to have been made England vice- captain, Stokes was held overnight in police cells.

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One of the two men needed hospital treatment for facial injuries. In a few weeks, he was due to travel with the team to Australia for this winter's Ashes series, yet if by then he faces trial for a potentially imprisonable offence, it seems unthinkable that the England management would allow him to board the plane. Indeed, despite the suggestions Stokes might have been defending someone from homophobic abuse, his actions were so shocking that his place in the team must be in doubt, even if he is not charged. The England and Wales Cricket Board, which yesterday suspended Stokes and Hales 'until further notice', will also want to know why the player – who once admitted losing count (at 2. Jagerbomb' shots he had drunk on a night out – was again out on the tiles. His sponsors must also be deeply concerned.

In addition to New Balance, he has a lucrative contract with Red Bull – deals which, together with the £1. Indian Premier League for just six weeks a year, and the £7. England – are estimated to boost his annual income to well over £3million. Then there is his family. On October 1. 4, Stokes is due to marry his fiancee, Clare Ratcliffe, 2. Layton and Libby, with whom he lives in his Durham mansion.

Miss Ratcliffe, from Somerset, met Stokes when she went to watch a cricket match, and he chatted her up whilst fielding on the boundary. Watch Big Hero 6 Online Iflix. Whether the wedding will now go ahead on schedule remains to be seen, but she is said to be 'devastated'. Following events from their home in New Zealand, his parents, former rugby league player and coach, Ged, and mother Deb – ironically a counsellor who works with victims of violent crime – must feel the same way. So, too, must the England selectors. For Stokes, whose astonishing feats include scoring the fastest 2. The star was seen standing over a man who was on the ground following the incident in Bristol. If anyone is taking satisfaction from this saga, it can only be the Australians, who feared he would demolish them this winter – and whose players and supporters would no doubt jibe him mercilessly if he was to make the Ashes tour.

Stokes was described to me as a 'mild- mannered, kindly' man when not in the heat of battle, and the first to lend his shoulder to team- mates with problems. So what could be behind his confrontational manner? The obvious place to look is his childhood.

Though many England fans prefer to forget it, Stokes is actually a New Zealander by ancestry and birth. His red hair and freckles come from his father's side of the family, but he also has Maori blood from his mother's distant relatives – a connection of which he is proud enough to mark with a tattoo on his arm. Born in Christchurch in June 1.

It was a streak his son inherited. When Stokes was 1.

UK, where his father took a coaching job. They settled in the Cumbrian town of Cockermouth, where he was teased for his accent and did not fare well academically – leaving school with just two GCSEs – but earned popularity for his sporting heroics. Yet as a friend told me, 'Trouble always seemed to follow him around, like a moth to a flame.'In a school rugby match, an opposition player took such a dislike to him that he ran up and punched Stokes just as he was about to take a conversion kick. A melee ensued and the game was abandoned. He also broke his hand during a cricket match after an altercation with the pavilion door. That trouble continued after his career began. In 2. 01. 3, when he toured Australia with the England Lions (effectively, the national reserve team), Stokes and a team- mate were flown home in disgrace after persistent late- night drinking.

Ordering him to pack his bags, coach Andy Flower gave it to him straight: 'You don't want to play for England. You just want to p*** it up the wall with your mates and have a good time.'The England and Wales Cricket Board yesterday suspended Ben Stokes (pictured) and Alex Hales. Stokes, then 2. 2, swore at him and vowed to prove him wrong.

By dint of his 'freakish' talent, as the former England Michael Vaughan describes it, he has done so. But the red mist has continued to descend at regular intervals. In 2. 01. 4, when he fractured his wrist by smashing it into a dressing- room cupboard, after getting out for a duck in Barbados, team- mates nicknamed him 'The Hurt Locker'. Another unseemly confrontation came after he was 'sledged' – the cricketing term for insulted out on the pitch – to breaking- point by the temperamental West Indian player Marlon Samuels. When Stokes was bowled out, Samuels mocked him with a salute; Stokes squared up to him and let fly with a volley of abuse, and it seemed for an instant that blows might be exchanged. We might have thought, for the sake of his career, that he would give up the booze – at least during the playing season – but no. Recklessly, during a recent interview with The Times magazine, he even admitted to drinking during a five- day Test match.

Why not? We're grown men, go out for dinner, have a few pints,' he said. I'm 2. 6, not 1. 4.

Syd Barrett - Wikipedia. Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1. July 2. 00. 6) was an English musician, composer, singer- songwriter, and painter. Best known as a founder member of the band Pink Floyd, Barrett was the lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter in its early years and is credited with naming the band.

Barrett was excluded from Pink Floyd in April 1. David Gilmour took over as their new guitarist, and was briefly hospitalised amid speculation of mental illness. Barrett was musically active for less than ten years.

With Pink Floyd, he recorded four singles, their debut album (and contributed to the second one), and several unreleased songs. Barrett began his solo career in 1.

Octopus" from his first solo album, The Madcap Laughs (1. The album was recorded over the course of a year with five different producers (Peter Jenner, Malcolm Jones, David Gilmour, Roger Waters and Barrett himself). Nearly two months after Madcap was released, Barrett began working on his second and final album, Barrett (1. Gilmour and featuring contributions from Richard Wright. Two years later, he left the music industry, retired from public life and strictly guarded his own privacy until his death in 2. In 1. 98. 8, an album of unreleased tracks and outtakes, Opel, was released by EMI with Barrett's approval. Barrett's innovative guitar work and exploration of experimental techniques such as dissonance, distortion and feedback influenced many musicians.

His recordings are also noted for their strongly English- accented vocal delivery. After leaving the music industry, Barrett continued with painting and dedicated himself to gardening. Pink Floyd wrote and recorded several tributes to him, most notably the 1. Wish You Were Here, which included "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", as homage to Barrett.

Biography. Early years. Syd Barrett was born as Roger Keith Barrett in the English city of Cambridge to a middle- class family living at 6. Glisson Road.[2][3] Barrett was the fourth of five children.[4] His father, Arthur Max Barrett, was a prominent pathologist[2][5][6] and he was related to Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, through Max's maternal grandmother Ellen Garrett, who was Elizabeth's cousin.[5][6] In 1. Hills Road.[2][3]Barrett played piano occasionally, but usually preferred writing and drawing. He got a ukulele at 1. Hofner acoustic guitar at 1.

A year after he got his first acoustic guitar, he bought his first electric guitar and built his own amplifier. One story of how Barrett acquired the nickname "Syd" is that at the age of 1. Cambridge jazz double bassist, Sid "The Beat" Barrett, which claims Syd Barrett changed the spelling to differentiate himself from his namesake.[1.

Another story is that when he was 1. Syd" after he showed up to a field day at Abington Scout site wearing a flat cap instead of his Scout beret because "Syd" was a "working- class" name. He used both names interchangeably for several years. His sister Rosemary stated, "He was never Syd at home. He would never have allowed it." He was a Scout with the 7th Cambridge troop and went on to be a patrol leader.[1.

At one point at Morley Memorial Junior School he was taught by Roger Waters' mother, Mary. Later, in 1. 95. 7, he attended Cambridgeshire High School for Boys (with Waters).[2] His father died of cancer on 1. December 1. 96. 1, less than a month before Barrett's 1. Also on this day, Barrett had left the entry in his diary blank. By this time, his brothers and sisters had left home and his mother decided to rent out rooms to lodgers.[1. Eager to help her son recover from his grief, Barrett's mother encouraged the band in which he played, Geoff Mott and The Mottoes, a band which Barrett formed, to perform in their front room. Roger Waters and Syd Barrett were childhood friends, and Waters often visited such gigs.[2] At one point, Waters even organised a gig, a CND benefit at Friends Meeting House on 1.

March 1. 96. 2,[2] but shortly afterwards Geoff Mott joined the Boston Crabs, and the Mottoes broke up. In September 1. 96. Barrett had taken a place at the Cambridge Technical College art department,[2. David Gilmour.[2.

During the winter of 1. Beatles made an impact on Barrett, and he began to play Beatles songs at parties and at picnics. In 1. 96. 3, Barrett became a Rolling Stones fan and, with then- girlfriend Libby Gausden, saw them perform at a village hall in Cambridgeshire.[2. It was at this point Barrett started writing songs; one friend recalls hearing "Effervescing Elephant" (later to be recorded on his solo album Barrett). Also around this time, Barrett and Gilmour occasionally played acoustic gigs together.[2.

Barrett had played bass guitar with Those Without during the summer of 1. The Hollerin' Blues the next summer.[2. In 1. 96. 4, Barrett and Gausden saw Bob Dylan perform.[2. After this performance, Barrett was inspired to write "Bob Dylan Blues".[2. Barrett, now thinking about his future,[2.

Camberwell College of Arts in London.[2. Barrett enrolled in the college in the summer of 1. Pink Floyd years (1.

Starting in 1. 96. Pink Floyd evolved through various line- up and name changes including "The Abdabs",[3. The Screaming Abdabs",[3. Sigma 6",[3. 0] and "The Meggadeaths".[3. In 1. 96. 5, Barrett joined them as The Tea Set[3. T- Set).[3. 3] When they found themselves playing a concert with another band of the same name, Barrett came up with "The Pink Floyd Sound" (also known as "The Pink Floyd Blues Band",[3.

The Pink Floyd").[nb 1] During 1. Richard Wright's gave the band free time to record.[nb 2][3.

During this summer Barrett had his first LSD trip in the garden of friend Dave Gale,[4. Ian Moore and Storm Thorgerson.[nb 3][4. During one trip, Barrett and another friend, Paul Charrier, ended up naked in the bath, reciting: "No rules, no rules".[4. That summer, as a consequence of the continuation of drug use, the band became absorbed in Sant Mat, a Sikh sect. Storm Thorgerson (then living on Earlham Street) and Barrett went to a London hotel to meet the sect's guru; Thorgerson managed to join the sect, while Barrett, however, was deemed too young to join. Thorgerson perceives this as a deeply important event in Barrett's life, as he was intensely upset by the rejection. While living within proximity of his friends, Barrett decided to write more songs ("Bike" was written around this time).[3.

London Underground, Blackhill Enterprises and gigs. While Pink Floyd began by playing cover versions of American R& B songs,[4.

After Bob Klose departed from the band, the band's direction changed. However, the change was not instantaneous,[nb 4] with more improvising on the guitars and keyboards.[3. Mason reflected, "It always felt to me that most of the ideas were emanating from Syd at the time."[nb 5][3.

At this time, Barrett's reading reputedly included: Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan, and The I- Ching. During this period, Barrett wrote most of the songs for Pink Floyd's first album, and also songs that would later appear on his solo albums.[4. In 1. 96. 6, a new rock concert venue, the UFO (pronounced as "you- foe"),[5. London and quickly became a haven for British psychedelic music. Pink Floyd, the house band,[4. Roundhouse,[5. 3][5.

London Underground" psychedelic music scene.[8]By the end of 1. Pink Floyd had gained a reliable management team in Andrew King and Peter Jenner.[5. Towards the end of October 1. Pink Floyd, with King and Jenner, set up Blackhill Enterprises, to manage the group's finances. Blackhill was staffed by lodgers Jenner found in his Edbrooke Road house, and among others, Barrett's flatmate, Peter Wynne Wilson (who became road manager, however, since he had more experience in lighting, he was also lighting assistant).[5.

King and Jenner wanted to prepare some demo recordings for a possible record deal, so at the end of October, they booked a session at Thompson Private Recording Studio,[5. Hemel Hempstead.[nb 6][5.