Richard Wright dies at 65[views:1657][posts:10]________________________________ [Sep 15,2008 1:05pm - zyklon ""] 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." |
| ___________________________________________ [Sep 15,2008 1:43pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] fuckin bullshit. fuck you Pink Floyd for not reuniting for a world tour before this happened |
| __________________________________________ [Sep 15,2008 3:43pm - corpus_colostomy ""] originally, i thought this was about the author of 'black boy' and 'native son.' |
| ___________________________________ [Sep 15,2008 6:45pm - dreadkill ""] rip dick wright :( |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 16,2008 2:35pm - Whoremastery ""] fuck!!! |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 16,2008 2:57pm - orgymf@work ""] 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) |
| ___________________________________________ [Sep 17,2008 7:44am - Mikeofdecrepitude ""] Watched Live in Pompeii last night. He was a great man for writing Us and Them. Bong rips for Wright. |
| ____________________________________ [Sep 17,2008 8:40am - i_am_lazy ""] FuckIsMySignature said:fuckin bullshit. fuck you Pink Floyd for not reuniting for a world tour before this happened +infinity billion. |
| ________________________________ [Sep 17,2008 10:41am - Seth ""] Hated them anyway |
| ________________________________________ [Sep 17,2008 10:44am - thuringwethil ""] awww, I know a lot of it was frat rock but Live at Pompeii is SO FRICKIN AWESOME! |
| ________________________________________________ [Sep 17,2008 5:29pm - MikeofDecrepitude nli ""] 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. |