RIP Richard Wright of Pink Floyd

Danny Tse
Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
edited September 2008 in Music & Movies
Founding member of Pink Floyd has passed away due to cancer
LONDON - A Pink Floyd spokesman says founding member Richard Wright has died. He was 65.

Wright died Monday after a battle with cancer at his home in Britain. His family did not want to give more details about his death. The spokesman is Doug Wright, who is not related to the artist.

Richard Wright met Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and Nick Mason at college and joined their early band Sigma 6.

Sigma 6 eventually became Pink Floyd and Wright wrote and sang some of the band's key songs. He wrote "The Great Gig In The Sky" and "Us And Them" from Pink Floyd's 1973 "The Dark Side Of The Moon."

He left the group in the early 1980s to form his own band but rejoined Pink Floyd for their 1987 album "A Momentary Lapse of Reason."

Wish You Were Here indeed....RIP
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  • ESavinon
    ESavinon Posts: 3,066
    edited September 2008
    Rip.
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited September 2008
    Rip.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited September 2008
    RIP

    Someday I'd like to hear the real Pink Floyd story...
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  • hoosier21
    hoosier21 Posts: 4,413
    edited September 2008
    from "The Great Gig in the Sky"

    "And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I
    don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying?
    There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime."

    "If you can hear this whispering you are dying."

    "I never said I was frightened of dying."
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  • pmckeealaska
    pmckeealaska Posts: 808
    edited September 2008
    I didnt even know he was sick. Man, was this sudden. RIP.
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited September 2008
    A sad day for US and them......

    RIP

    RT1
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  • DAGLJAM6
    DAGLJAM6 Posts: 635
    edited September 2008
    Played "Animals" and ""Wish You Were Here" last night on the TT didn't have a clue he was sick.....
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  • jaysonbarnett
    jaysonbarnett Posts: 257
    edited September 2008
    This is a very sad day for me!!!!!!
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited September 2008
    Shine on, Richard
    JC approves....he told me so. (F-1 nut)
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited September 2008
    The below is currently on David Gilmour's official website and it is sooooo sad....
    No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend.

    In the welter of arguments about who or what was Pink Floyd, Rick's enormous input was frequently forgotten.

    He was gentle, unassuming and private but his soulful voice and playing were vital, magical components of our most recognised Pink Floyd sound.

    I have never played with anyone quite like him. The blend of his and my voices and our musical telepathy reached their first major flowering in 1971 on 'Echoes'. In my view all the greatest PF moments are the ones where he is in full flow. After all, without 'Us and Them' and 'The Great Gig In The Sky', both of which he wrote, what would 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' have been? Without his quiet touch the Album 'Wish You Were Here' would not quite have worked.

    In our middle years, for many reasons he lost his way for a while, but in the early Nineties, with 'The Division Bell', his vitality, spark and humour returned to him and then the audience reaction to his appearances on my tour in 2006 was hugely uplifting and it's a mark of his modesty that those standing ovations came as a huge surprise to him, (though not to the rest of us).

    Like Rick, I don't find it easy to express my feelings in words, but I loved him and will miss him enormously.

    David Gilmour
    Monday 15th September 2008
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  • sda2mike
    sda2mike Posts: 3,131
    edited September 2008
    sad, sad day:( i've been really enjoying summer '68 in my mp3 while jogging. what a loss. there truly goes any hope of a pf renuion. oh well. rip...mr wright
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  • Norm Apter
    Norm Apter Posts: 1,036
    edited September 2008
    Wow, this is huge and sad news -- as big for me as the death of John Lennon or John Bonham nearly 30 years ago. The first one to go from the mighty Floyd (even if Roger Waters has been estranged from the rest of the band for awhile, there's something about not having even having the possibility of the whole band playing together again).

    I saw them in Raleigh-Durham in May 1994 during the Division Bell tour. I was stone-cold sober and it was by far the best concert I've every seen. I can still recall the intensity and magnificence of the show as if it took place a few months ago.

    RIP
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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited September 2008
    Wow, I don't even know what to say. So many musicians die, and I don't usually give it too much thought, but damn...this is different-I'm not sure why, but it is. Might be because PF was such a big part of my teenage years- I don't know. I'm saddened.

    RIP Mr. Wright.

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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited September 2008
    Roger Waters has chimed in on the passing of his ex-bandmate....

    http://www.roger-waters.com/
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  • dholmes
    dholmes Posts: 1,136
    edited September 2008
    Bad news,all these guys are getting old like me.Dark side came out when I was a hs senior,loved it!!! didnt have good spks back then but headphones & some rolled up herbs fired up & I was in heaven!!!
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  • simm
    simm Posts: 570
    edited September 2008
    Very sad news....

    Norm- I was at that same show. We were down on the field right beside the mirror when it came up at the end of the show.
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  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited September 2008
    I saw them in, I guess 1971. Before DSOTM, quite well before they'd transitioned into the mega-show productions. They played a technically awesome set, far less equipment to set up than they evolved into. :p

    Just finished remodding the caps on this set of RTA 11T's, and I have to say they sound now like I'd hoped they would.
    Schubert's Death and the Maiden was exquisite on them, now playing Pulse, Disc 1. Also just wonderful.

    Shine on, Richard, you gave a great show that keeps on going......
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