Pink Floyd keyboard player and founder member Richard Wright has died at the age of 65 from cancer.
The group released their first record in 1967 with Wright appearing alongside lead guitarist Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason.
Wright penned songs on albums including Dark Side Of The Moon as well as Wish You Were Here.
Our thoughts are with his family.
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There must be a Great Gig in the Sky right now.
Ciao Rick
Yes indeed. I saw this on Wired today, very cool… “Echoes” as a soundtrack to 2001: http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/09/in-memoriam-pin.html
I’ll still never get over hearing them play that at the Royal Albert Hall a couple of years ago. I was very happy.