Pink Floyd Member Richard Wright Dies at 65
Sad news for music lovers everywhere.
On a personal note, for those of you who don't know, I started this site way-back-when as a Pink Floyd fan site. I got the title themeofabsence.com from a Pink Floyd bootleg box set called Variations on a Theme of Absence, which was also the original name of fan site before I bought the domain, themeofabsence.com.
I still have that fantasy of Waters, Gilmour and Mason will reuniting for a 2009/2010 tour to celebrete thirty-year anniversary of The Wall, but now if that were to happen, they'll be one member short.
Like I said, sad news.
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."
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On a personal note, for those of you who don't know, I started this site way-back-when as a Pink Floyd fan site. I got the title themeofabsence.com from a Pink Floyd bootleg box set called Variations on a Theme of Absence, which was also the original name of fan site before I bought the domain, themeofabsence.com.
I still have that fantasy of Waters, Gilmour and Mason will reuniting for a 2009/2010 tour to celebrete thirty-year anniversary of The Wall, but now if that were to happen, they'll be one member short.
Like I said, sad news.
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."
FOXNews.com - Pink Floyd Member Richard Wright Dies at 65 - Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Arts And Entertainment
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