BREAKING... RIP Rick Wright...

[leaddraft]

Rick Wright: Wish you were here


On this date 33 years ago, Pink Floyd released its underrated classic "Wish You Were Here." And on this date in 2008, that title becomes sadly applicable to Pink Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright -- dead at age 65 from cancer.

In an eerie bit of timing, Wright died on the same day Floyd guitarist David Gilmour said in a published interview that chances for another Pink Floyd reunion are almost non-existent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DXCHa9BYfE

 

[HappyHemphog]

I'm just glad to say I saw him perform live.

RIP - Shine On You Crazy Diamond

 

[bluebublelove]

wow. this is terrible. I didn't even know he was ill.

...RIP...

 

[grapepunched]

wow, another Floyd member gone forever,
their music was so heavy man i'm almost glad they're seperated!
they blew my mind more than once and i don't know
if they ever could have been any better than in Animals or DarkSide or the Wall...
though all other albums rawk out to, especially some meddle! heehee=)
RIP

-gp

 

[leaddraft]

Now hit the MSN...

Now hit the MSN...

Pink Floyd member Richard Wright dies
Wright died Monday after a battle with cancer at his home in Britain
LONDON - A Pink Floyd spokesman says founding member Richard Wright has died. He was 65.

Wright died Monday after a battle with cancer at his home in Britain. His family did not want to give more details about his death. The spokesman is Doug Wright, who is not related to the artist.

Richard Wright met Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and Nick Mason at college and joined their early band Sigma 6.

Sigma 6 eventually became Pink Floyd and Wright wrote and sang some of the band’s key songs. He wrote “The Great Gig In The Sky” and “Us And Them” from Pink Floyd’s 1973 “The Dark Side Of The Moon.”

He left the group in the early 1980s to form his own band but rejoined Pink Floyd for their 1987 album “A Momentary Lapse of Reason.”

MSNBC

 

[leaddraft]

cry, cry...

cry, cry...

RIP..
Shine On You Crazy Diamond..

 

[Dutchgrown]

He has left a wonderful legacy in his music. That's the great thing about musicians, they live on in our minds through their music. I'm an avid PF fan...has always been my favorite band, of all bands....brings me to tears to lose such a talent...we're all gonna go sometime, today was simply his time.

RIP.


dg

 

[del...]

i didn't know he was sick...another great loss for us all. vh1classic has been running "the making of dark side of the moon" and pink floyd documentaries including a syd barrett bio and i'm sure we'll be seeing more...it's a sad day indeed.

 

[Stoner4Life]

A SAD DAY INDEED​

I'm a huge fan, especially of the early daze 60s ~ 70s.
The older I get the more steadily my peers seem to be
moving on, Rick being just a handful of yrs older than I
makes it hit home all the harder.......

R.I.P. Rick Wright

 

[oldpink]

oh man this news gutted me to the bone
I've seen Rick with Floyd a few times over the years now

RIP Rick Another Crazy diamond lost to the world

 

[WoW maannnn]

so sorry.
ive spent many breaths listening to his work goodbye

 

[subrob]

just saw this on msn. came here to start a thread. he will be missed.

 

[FallenBuddha]

I am totally shocked at the news, my very earliest memories of non-church or kiddie music is Darkside of the Moon (when i was a child i loved, the "alarm clock song", time) and in first grade when we were learning about England i told the teacher desperation was the English way, and they remain to this day my fav band. I have held out hope for a reunion, especially after live 8 but to no avail. His keyboard playing, especially in the reprise of shine on you crazy diamond, was simply haunting. I recall an interview with him where they, Pink Floyd, had played at the royal albert hall, and he had the pipe organ rigged with fire works damaging the pipes, it was the last time they ever were allowed to play there. Thanks mr. Wright for all the fond musical memories, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

peace -fb

 

[oldpink]

theres a tribute thread I have started in the music forum with some embedded video's of rick
Click here to see the video's

 

[WoW maannnn]

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pink+floyd+echoes&search_type=&aq=0&oq=pink+floyd+e

echoes 4 u

 

[Don Cotyle]

I'm another big fan of Pink Floyd. R.I.P Rick Wright...I'm sure theres a Hammond B3 and amp waiting for him up in Heaven so he can keep rockin on!!!

 

[Farmer John]

Shine on, and thank you for the music...you will be missed...one of the great ones gone...

 

[hoosierdaddy]

Shine on you crazy diamond, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

 

[herbie5000]

yep it's a bad week for psychedelic rock keyboardists. jason stuart from hawkwind also died this week. rip.