Richard Wright
English keyboardist, co-founder of Pink Floyd (1943-2008) · United Kingdom · Musicians · Died at 65
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Something wrong?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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Wet DreamAlbum1966“There were rare moments when a feeling and longing for solidarity with other black people would take hold of him.”In their words"Flight", p. 109, Harper Row 19661943Born28 July 1943Also in Deutsch
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Pink Floyd 1967 with Syd Barrett (higher quality) (cropped) (b)In their own words 10
, He was sitting in a white home; dim lights burned round him; strange objects challenged him; and he was feeling angry and uncomfortable.
There were rare moments when a feeling and longing for solidarity with other black people would take hold of him.
But the moment he makes the attempt his words falter, for he is confronted and defied by the inexplicable array of his own emotions.
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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 the late '70s and left after touring The Wall in 1981, returned as a session player in 1987, then rejoined fully for The Division Bell in 1994. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Pink Floyd in 1996, played Live 8 in 2005, and toured with Gilmour's band before lung cancer killed him in London in September 2008 at 65.
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