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Floyd founder Wright dies at 65

Pink Floyd keyboard player and founder member Richard Wright has died aged 65 from cancer.

Wright appeared on the group's first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, in 1967 alongside lead guitarist Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason.

Dave Gilmour joined the band at the start of 1968 while Barrett left the group shortly afterwards.

Gilmour said: "He was such a lovely, gentle, genuine man and will be missed terribly by so many who loved him."

Writing on his website, he added: "And that's a lot of people. Did he not get the loudest, longest round of applause at the end of every show in 2006?"

Wright's spokesman said in a statement: "The family of Richard Wright, founder member of Pink Floyd, announce with great sadness that Richard died today after a short struggle with cancer.

"The family have asked that their privacy is respected at this difficult time."

He did not say what form of cancer the self-taught keyboard player and pianist had.

Live 8

Wright, a founder member of The Pink Floyd Sound - and other previous incarnations including Sigma 6 - met Waters and Mason at architecture school.


Wright rejoined Pink Floyd for the London Live 8 concert in 2005
Pink Floyd achieved legendary status with albums including 1973's The Dark Side Of The Moon, which stayed in the US album chart for more than a decade.

Wright, known as Rick earlier in his career, wrote The Great Gig In The Sky and Us And Them from the album.

Waters left the band in 1981, performing his last concert at London's Earls Court.

Wright, together with Gilmour and Mason, continued to record and tour as Pink Floyd during the remainder of the 1980s and into the 1990s, releasing their last studio album - The Division Bell - in 1994.

In 2005, the full band reunited - for the first time in 24 years - for the Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7617363.stm

[Rivieras]

yeah...I can't get into pink floyd anymore after this one psycho bitch of an ex turned out obsessed by them. Seriously twisted fans I'll tell you.

When Bob Dylan dies though...I'll still listen to his old stuff, much better.

[Draggy]

yeah...I can't get into pink floyd anymore after this one psycho bitch of an ex turned out obsessed by them. Seriously twisted fans I'll tell you.

Lol, exactly the same reason but change ex-gf into ex-bf

[Obev]

nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu u :[

[Suburbanelite]

I can imagine being obsessed with the Floyd... they're pretty amazing. Gonna miss Wright

[Melena]

is all i can say to this.

[izembo]

*cue screw 2008 comments*

[Nuriko]

Pink Floyd has been my favorite band for years now. I'm no where near as crazy as some of those obsessed fans though...I think...Definitely a sad day

[TheShadyMan]

I blame his cancer on the consumeristic fucks I see wearing the Dark Side of the Moon gear who have never listened to it, and nine times out of fucking ten can't even tell you what the fuck it is.

[Shalyn]

;-;

[AkashiXI]

I blame his cancer on the consumeristic fucks I see wearing the Dark Side of the Moon gear who have never listened to it, and nine times out of fucking ten can't even tell you what the fuck it is.

Lol, my friend took his shirt and replaced the lettering with, "Dark Side of the Wat"

[Demisses]

my dad used to be a major pink floyd hippie so i grew up listening to them. first it was Syd Barrett now rick wright (((

another great musician will be missed <3

[Lavik]

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[guartz]

good riddance, goddamn hippi

[HAcoreRD]

fuck.

[Cletis]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my power has been out for 3 days and this is the shit i came back to