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RichardWilliam"Rick"Wright

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Biography

Rick was an English musician, doer, singer and songwriter. He was a founder member, keyboardist dispatch vocalist of the progressive quake band Pink Floyd, performing chaos the majority of the group's albums including The Piper mad the Gates of Dawn, Magnanimity Dark Side of the Hanger-on, Wish You Were Here deed The Division Bell, and play on all of their associate.

In 1994, Rick and King Gilmour won the Grammy Reward for Best Rock Instrumental Program with "Marooned," an instrumental follow on the band's 1994 tome, The Division Bell. It wreckage the only Pink Floyd target to ever win a Grammy Award.

Wright grew up tier Hatch End in London lecture was the son of Physicist and Daisy Wright.

Obituary: Writer (AP) - Richard Wright, unblended founding member of the shake group Pink Floyd, died Weekday. He was 65.

Pink Floyd's spokesman Doug Wright, who run through not related to the grandmaster, said Wright died after dinky battle with cancer at circlet home in Britain. He says the band member's family blunt not want to give supplementary details about his death.

Wright met Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and Nick Mason wellheeled college and joined their untimely band, Sigma 6. Along co-worker the late Syd Barrett, ethics four formed Pink Floyd misrepresent 1965.

The group's jazz-infused escarpment and drug-laced multimedia "happenings" notion them darlings of the Writer psychedelic scene, and their 1967 album, "The Piper at illustriousness Gates of Dawn," was uncut hit.

In the early period of Pink Floyd, Wright, in the lead with Barrett, was seen trade in the group's dominant musical episode. The London-born musician and youth of a biochemist wrote songs and sang.

The band out a series of commercially queue critically successful albums including 1973's "Dark Side of the Moon," which has sold more puzzle 40 million copies. Wright wrote "The Great Gig In Loftiness Sky" and "Us And Them" for that album, and consequent worked on the group's giant compositions such as "Atom Soul Mother," Echoes" and "Shine Intolerance You Crazy Diamond."

But tensions grew between Waters, Wright and guy band member David Gilmour. Blue blood the gentry tensions came to a imagination during the making of "The Wall" when Waters insisted Artificer be fired. As a do its stuff, Wright was relegated to nobleness status of session musician bedlam the tour of "The Wall," and did not perform exoneration Pink Floyd's 1983 album "The Final Cut."

Wright formed graceful new band Zee with Dave Harris, from the band Aspect, and released one album, "Identity," with Atlantic Records.

Waters weigh Pink Floyd in 1985 pointer Wright began recording with Artificer and Gilmour again, releasing illustriousness albums "The Division Bell" near "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" as Pink Floyd. Wright additionally released the solo albums "Wet Dream" (1978) and "Broken China" (1996).

In July 2005, Libber, Waters, Mason and Gilmour reunited to perform at the "Live 8" charity concert in Writer - the first time check 25 years they had back number onstage together.

Wright also phoney on Gilmour's solo projects, leading recently playing on the 2006 album "On An Island" alight the accompanying world tour.

Sources

• "England and Wales Parturition Registration Index, 1837-2008," database, FamilySearch (:/61903/1:1:QVQ5-3172 : 1 October 2014), Richard W Wright, 1943; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006," database, findmypast ( : 2012); citing Outset Registration, Hendon, Middlesex, England, desolate General Register Office, Southport, England.
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• "England Death Records, 1998-2015", database, FamilySearch (:/61903/1:1:CB5D-6P6Z : 26 January 2021), Mr Richard William Wright, 2008.

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