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."
eh, i hated pink floyd anyway....overrated shyte that only sounds good when you're on drugs......last time i enjoyed pink floyd was the last time i took acid (3 and a half years ago)
awww, I know a lot of it was frat rock but Live at Pompeii is SO FRICKIN AWESOME!
post by MikeofDecrepitude nli at Sep 17,2008 5:29pm
Live in Pompeii definitely captured the more meandering and abstract side of Pink Floyd. It represents all that was great about them. Careful with that Axe, Eugene and Echoes > Pink Floyd hits found on the radio.
