Richard Wright[Pink Floyd]

[steve56]

Just read hes passed away .

[Jonone]

[Arginald Valleywater]

Headlining the great gig in the sky I hope. Brilliant musician and always came over as a genuinely decent bloke.

[colonel]

Not a drummer- but a truly great keyboard player. The Zep are my band- but the Floyd are in there as well- and now they can never reform.

My condolences go to those who loved and dmired him.

[max_tranmere]

I think that's really sad. I was a fan of theirs, and saw them on The Division Bell tour at Earls Court in 1994. He was a major part of the band, even more so than some people who were credited as having much more to do with it than him. Nick Mason admitted years later that he had had 'minimal involvement' in the 'A Momentray Lapse Of Reason' album (AMLOR) - released in 1987.

Rick Wright was only credited as being a senior backing musician on later albums after he was sacked from the band by Roger Waters in early 1983. After Waters left the band in 1985, Wright tried his best to rejoin it. He was allowed back but could only be credited as a backing musician as he had missed out on 'The Final Cut album' (1983). Later photo's of "Pink Floyd" would only feature David Gilmour and Nick Mason.

It seems obvious though that Wright had more to do with the AMLOR album than Mason did - in spite of not officially being in the band, and, presumably, earning a hell of a lot less money from it than Mason did, on account of Mason being one of one two people in the band photo. Wright was on every record and tour following his 'rejoining' - right up until recently. He appeared a lot on Gilmour's solo album "On An Island", which came out in 2006. So really he had more to do with the later Floyd than Mason but from the billing and photographs, it would appear the other way around.

Some journalist's claimed later that David Gilmour personally wrote out Richard Wright's paycheck's, but this was later denied by Gilmour. It is very sad that he has passed away, and it is genuinely a great loss to music. There have only really been three major bands in history where the keyboards were a very key part of what was going on, and where they really defined the sound - so much so that in the case of these three bands, you could tell which band it was just from its keyboard sound, and without hearing the vocals. Those bands were Pink Floyd, Genesis, and The Doors.

A very sad loss.

[nikonman]

That's a shock.
One of my favorite bands
Has now joined Syd for the great gig in the sky
RIP

[Arnold Layne]

A huge part of The Pink Floyd's sound, never even knew he was ill, after not long completing David Gilmour's on an Island tour as well, his fantastic muscianship will live in particulary in my favourite "Echoes", been a huge fan since I was a kid, a very sad loss indeed.

[Dave Wells]

Ditto, sad loss.

[steve56]

Think it was his lungs read on another site he was a heavy smoker.

[mrmcfister]

65 is no age these days.Death .....when and how will he come calling? Very sad.Some of their tunes move me to tears.RIP.