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News Source: Myrtle Beach Online
| about 1 year ago
Horry County Council members voted in favor of adopting a new credit card policy for county employees at a meeting today of the administration committee. A county official said the new policy will add accountability and make paying bills more...
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News Source: CNN
| about 1 year ago
iReporters have a message for Richard Wright: Shine on, you crazy diamond. Wright, a founding member of epic rock group Pink Floyd, died Monday. The keyboardist had been battling cancer and succumbed at his home in Britain. Wright is credited with...
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News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 year ago
My dad gave me a cassette tape of Dark Side of the Moon for Christmas when I was eight, and it was an awakening of epic proportion in my tiny child's mind...And Rick Wright's contribution to the sound of the record is as important as any of the other...
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News Source: The Herald
| about 1 year ago
ick Wright, 65, who helped start the British rock band Pink Floyd and whose keyboard skills brought a haunting quality to its most successful albums, "The Dark Side of the Moon," "Wish You Were Here" and "The Wall," died of cancer Sept. 15 at his...
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News Source: The Independent
| about 1 year ago
Although Rick Wright played keyboards for Pink Floyd, he never played the star. With his melancholy looks and gaunt features, Wright would be lost in a crowd, and he was happy that way. Making music as creatively as possible was what mattered to him...
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News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| about 1 year ago
Mumbai fans mourn the death of Richard Wright, the founding member of Pink Floyd On September 16, Mumbaikars woke up to the news that 65-year-old Richard Wright, the keyboardist and founding member of the band, Pink Floyd, had succumbed to cancer.
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News Source: International Herald Tribune
| about 1 year ago
Richard Wright, the keyboardist whose somber, monumental sounds were at the core of the art rock by Pink Floyd that has sold millions and millions of albums, died Monday in London, where he had lived...Wright was a founding member of Pink Floyd, and...
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News Source: ITN
| about 1 year ago
David Gilmour "Like Rick, I don't find it easy to express my feelings in words, but I loved him and will miss him enormously...Wright played the keyboard with the guitar group and wrote music for classic albums The Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You...
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News Source: Los Angeles Times
| about 1 year ago
While he lacked the high profile of bandmates Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and David Gilmour, the keyboardist nonetheless shaped the British psychedelic group's sound...But he wrote or co-wrote many of the band's songs, and frequently provided a crucial...
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News Source: The Star Press
| about 1 year ago
Richard Wright, who died Monday from cancer at 65, was the key sonic architect in constructing the musical foundation for Pink Floyd. Though Roger Waters and David Gilmour assumed the reins of the hugely influential and popular British band, it was...