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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...