Did The Beatles ever meet Pink Floyd?
Yes, Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd did meet. It was while Pink Floyd was recording The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn at Abbey Road studio’s and The Beatles were right down the hall recording Sgt. Peppers. Pink Floyd’s engineer at the time was Norman Smith who was the producer for The Beatles on all their albums up to Rubber Soul, so it was probably through him that they met. Here is how Roger Waters described it, “I remember the first sessions we did at Abby Road on four-track. The Beatles were making ‘Sgt. Pepper’ in the other studio. At about five-thirty in the afternoon, Ringo, Paul and George came into our studios and we all stood rooted to the spot, excited by it all.” Nick Mason tells it a bit differently. “We spent three months recording it (piper at the gates of dawn) which was quite a long time in those days. Bands used to have to finish albums in a week, with session players brought in to play the difficult bits. But because The Beatles were taking their time recording Sgt Pepper i
