Richard Wright Dies (Pink Floyd)

Richard Wright, a founding affiliate of the bedrock accumulation Pink Floyd, died Monday. He was 65.

Pink Floyd's agent Doug Wright, who is not accompanying to the artist, said Wright died afterwards a action with blight at his home in Britain. He says the bandage member's ancestors did not wish to accord added data about his death.

Wright met Pink Floyd associates Roger Waters and Nick Mason in academy and abutting their aboriginal band, Sigma 6. Forth with the backward Syd Barrett, the four formed Pink Floyd in 1965.



The group's jazz-infused bedrock and drug-laced multimedia "happenings" fabricated them darlings of the London consciousness-expanding scene, and their 1967 album, "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn," was a hit.

In the aboriginal canicule of Pink Floyd, Wright, forth with Barrett, was apparent as the group's ascendant agreeable force. The London-born artist and son of a biochemist wrote songs and sang.

The bandage appear a alternation of commercially and alarmingly acknowledged albums including 1973's "Dark Side of the Moon," which has awash added than 40 actor copies. Wright wrote "The Great Gig In The Sky" and "Us And Them" for that album, and after formed on the group's ballsy compositions such as "Atom Heart Mother," "Echoes" and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond."

But tensions grew amid Waters, Wright and adolescent bandage affiliate David Gilmour. The tensions came to a arch during the authoritative of "The Wall" if Waters insisted Wright be fired. As a result, Wright was relegated to the cachet of affair artist on the bout of "The Wall," and did not accomplish on Pink Floyd's 1983 anthology "The Final Cut."

Wright formed a new bandage Zee with Dave Harris, from the bandage Fashion, and appear one album, "Identity," with Atlantic Records.

Waters larboard Pink Floyd in 1985 and Wright began recording with Mason and Gilmour again, absolution the albums "The Division Bell" and "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" as Pink Floyd. Wright aswell appear the abandoned albums "Wet Dream" (1978) and "Broken China" (1996).

In July 2005, Wright, Waters, Mason and Gilmour reunited to accomplish at the "Live 8" alms concert in London — the aboriginal time in 25 years they had been onstage together.

Wright aswell formed on Gilmour's abandoned projects, a lot of afresh arena on the 2006 anthology "On An Island" and the accompanying apple tour.

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