Richard Wright (1943-2008) Pink Floyd Keyboardist

by Scott Beale on September 16, 2008 · 3 comments

Richard Wright

Richard Wright, Pink Floyd keyboardist and founding member, died on September 15th at age 65 after a battle with cancer.

David Gilmour of Pink Floyd has a nice tribute to Rick on his website.

via Bradley Horowitz on Twitter

photo via David Gilmour

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1 Nik Hewitt September 16, 2008 at 7:47 am

Big persoanl fan. 1st album I ever bought was Relics…

There's a tribute page set up on our Lasting Tribute website at – http://www.lastingtribute.co.uk/tribute/wright/... – those who appreciated the mans work, we'd appreciate your comments :-)

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2 Hugh Briss September 18, 2008 at 8:55 am

The first album I ever bought when I was about 13 was Dark Side of the Moon and one of my favorite all time Pink Floyd songs was Us and Them, which was written by Wright. Sad loss for sure.

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3 jeff99az October 18, 2008 at 12:20 am

Great Musician. He's literally playing now at the “Great Gig In The Sky”. Sad for us, but joy in Heaven.

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