Pink Floyd's Rick Wright R.I.P.
 

Just found out about this (taken from Guardian site):


Founding member of Pink Floyd dies

 

Richard Wright, one of the founding members of Pink Floyd, has died today following a struggle with cancer. He was 65.
Wright was the band's long-term keyboard player, as well as a songwriting contributor to classic albums such as Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here. He also mastered a wide range of instruments including the synthesiser, saxophone and Farfisa organ, during the many years of Pink Floyd's career.
The band formed in the mid-60s, during which time Wright performed as a vocalist on many of the their songs. However, his preoccupation later on was with experimental compositions, a credit to the many instruments he played.
Wright released a solo record in 1978 called Wet Dream and went on to form pop group Zee in the 1980s, though, perhaps unsurprisingly, neither were quite as successful as his original band.
Wright performed with the surviving members of Pink Floyd in 2005 for Live 8.
Fellow founding member Syd Barrett died of pancreatic cancer in July 2006.

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Rest in peace, Rick - you were always a gentle soul, and you helped bring a lot of great music to this world.

I just heard about it five minutes ago. This is so beyond depressing. I'm at a loss for words (no Division Bell pun intended.)

Shine on, Rick. :7(

Oh dear. What a shame. I bumped into him about two years ago at a dingy working-men's club where he and David were practicing for their Albert Hall shows, we said hi to eachother briefly, but he looked and sounded ill even then.

Nice guy, even if he was the quiet one.

One of my favorite rock keyboardists.

That is truly sad news.

OH MY FUCKING GOD NO

coincidentally i was just listening to pink floyd in the car. "any colour you like" which has his best keyboard work on it.

okay i'm in mourning for the next ten years easily. i might actually cry.

fuck... this is terrible

i just played great gig

cheers dude, you will be missed

It's nothing worth crying about, I mean, he was just a guy who could play the piano pretty damned well.

but i loooooooove them

all of them

even waters, the smug bastard

I genuinely loved Syd. I really felt I had some sort of connection with guy, his music and his approach to life. So when he died it was a really tough blow. Wright, horrible as this may seem, was the remaining member of Pink Floyd who if he died would have the least effect on me. And it hasn't. But I still celebrate what he did and what he was bloody good at. As Pink Floyd are the most painfully English rock band ever, I intend to mourn him in a very English stiff upper lip way.

Yeah it's a shame. I guess this makes a Pink Floyd reunion tour that much more unlikely. Not that it would have ever happened anyway. Not only was he a great keyboard player, he was also a great singer. He added so much dimension to their music. Well, at least he got to play the Live 8 show and enjoy the tour with David Gilmour a couple years ago. Rest in peace Rick.

I always appreciated his overall peacefulness during the band's history. Even when Waters sacked him, he didn't make much of a stink about it. Very un-douchey member in a band full of (mostly) douches.

Bad news.
Take it easy Rick.

FUCK
HE WAS MY FAVORITE MEMBER!!!

FUCK.

:(

This sucks.

I see a Pink Floyd weekend coming up...

this is sad. I remember when Syd dies. I was depressed for like a week

Yeah, buy Syd was always kinda whacko. It was kind of forseen that he would die. But RICK?! He was only 65! And no one knew publicly that he had cancer! What the fuck.

nooo :(

Just watched the Arnold Layne video. Weird to think now only two of the guys in it are still alive now...