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Richard Wright
said
He was sitting in a white home; dim lights burned round him; strange objects challenged him; and he was feeling angry and uncomfortable.
— "Fear", p. 47, Harper Row 1966
Richard Wright
English keyboardist, co-founder of Pink Floyd (1943–2008)
- Fame60.1
- Momentum2.0
- United Kingdom rank#225
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- Fame60.1
- Momentum2.0
- United Kingdom rank#225
- Musicians rank#216
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Lived 1943–2008, aged 65United Kingdom
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Updated 2026-06-09
The keyboards that defined Pink Floyd's sound — the spectral swells, the jazz-tinged organs, the textures that made "Dark Side" shimmer — came from Richard Wright, the co-founder who stayed quietest in the mix and left the loudest hole when he died.
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Wright met Roger Waters and Nick Mason studying architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic in London, and the three formed Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett, hitting commercial success in 1967. After Barrett's departure and David Gilmour's arrival in 1968, Wright wrote and sang early tracks like "Remember a Day" and "It Would Be So Nice", then shifted mainly to arranging as Waters and Gilmour took over songwriting. His jazz-rooted playing on Farfisa and Hammond organs became essential to the band's atmosphere, threading through classics like "Time" (1973), where he sang lead. He contributed less by t…
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Richard Wright
said
There were rare moments when a feeling and longing for solidarity with other black people would take hold of him.
— "Flight", p. 109, Harper Row 1966
Richard Wright
said
But the moment he makes the attempt his words falter, for he is confronted and defied by the inexplicable array of his own emotions.
— p. viii
Richard Wright
said
I sensed, too, that the Southern scheme of oppression was but an appendage of a far vaster and in many respects more ruthless and impersonal commodity-profit machine.
— p. xv
Richard Wright
said
I found that I had written a book which even bankers' daughters could read and weep over and feel good about.
— p. xxvii
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- Broken China1996
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