RIP Pink Floyd’s Richard Wright
Members of Pink Floyd, from left, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright, are shown in this 1988 Associated Press file photo.
The Associated Press is reporting that Richard Wright, one of the founding members of space rock songsmiths Pink Floyd, died Monday after a battle with cancer. He was 65.
Wright met Roger Waters and Nick Mason while they were in college and started the band Sigma 6, which became Pink Floyd, according to the AP.
Wright wrote “The Great Gig In The Sky” and “Us And Them” from the band’s seminal album, “The Dark Side Of The Moon.” As keyboardist, he helped fashion Floyd’s distinctive otherworldly sound, incorporating lots of eerie organ and synthesizer sounds into the band’s music.
He left the band in late ’70s - Waters fired around the time the band was making “The Wall” and rehired him as a session player - but Wright returned to play on the band’s 1987 dehydrated (the term my buddy Kyle uses to describe Floyd’s post-Waters days) album “A Momentary Lapse of Reason.”
Click here to read the AP obituary.
Click here to read Entertainment Weekly’s tribute.
-BAM
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