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This sucks.
My favourite Rick song:
No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend.
In the welter of arguments about who or what was Pink Floyd, Rick's enormous input was frequently forgotten.
He was gentle, unassuming and private but his soulful voice and playing were vital, magical components of our most recognised Pink Floyd sound.
I have never played with anyone quite like him. The blend of his and my voices and our musical telepathy reached their first major flowering in 1971 on 'Echoes'. In my view all the greatest PF moments are the ones where he is in full flow. After all, without 'Us and Them' and 'The Great Gig In The Sky', both of which he wrote, what would 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' have been? Without his quiet touch the Album 'Wish You Were Here' would not quite have worked.
In our middle years, for many reasons he lost his way for a while, but in the early Nineties, with 'The Division Bell', his vitality, spark and humour returned to him and then the audience reaction to his appearances on my tour in 2006 was hugely uplifting and it's a mark of his modesty that those standing ovations came as a huge surprise to him, (though not to the rest of us).
Like Rick, I don't find it easy to express my feelings in words, but I loved him and will miss him enormously.
David Gilmour
Monday 15th September 2008
David Gilmour | The Voice and Guitar of Pink Floyd | Official Site
They were far too obsessed with putting lipstick on a pig. Literally.
RIP Mr. Wright
i found out the horrible news a few hours age.[sic] Scince [sic] then i have not stopped listening to great pink floyd songs that Richard has helped so so much with. He wrote the music to some of my favorite Floyd songs including Us and Them, Great Gig in the Sky, and Summer of 69. i wish the best for his family and hope i can meet him in the past life.
R.I.P. Richard Wright you will always be missed
Posted By: Matt Trezza - Monday, September 15th 2008 @ 9:41pm
I can't believe the classic rock radio morning show only dedicated a whole 15 seconds to his passing and nothing more.
I don't agree with something stupid like this but if you are going to do this, why on radio?
Bryan Adams was in Pink Floyd?Did anybody spot the hilarious mistake there?
They always pull stunts like this and then put the videos online. It's here if your interested: Paul and Young Ron Morning Show
I checked the classic rock station here 104.3 yesterday in the evening and heard nothing Floyd related.
Roger Waters (a subtle, but fitting tribute...the screen image from "Wish You Were Here" that was used on the '07/'08 tour - and I think we can also expect to see a written statement soon)
"I was very sad to hear of Rick's premature death, I knew he had been ill, but the end came suddenly and shockingly. My thoughts are with his family, particularly [his daughters] Jamie and Gala and their mum Juliet, who I knew very well in the old days, and always liked very much and greatly admired.
"As for the man and his work, it is hard to overstate the importance of his musical voice in the Pink Floyd of the '60s and '70s. The intriguing, jazz influenced modulations and voicings so familiar in 'Us and Them' and 'Great Gig in the Sky,' which lent those compositions both their extraordinary humanity and their majesty, are omnipresent in all the collaborative work the four of us did in those times. Rick's ear for harmonic progression was our bedrock.
"I am very grateful for the opportunity that Live 8 afforded me to engage with him and David [Gilmour] and Nick [Mason] that one last time. I wish there had been more."
Pink Floyd news :: Brain Damage - Tributes paid to Richard Wright from across the world
I love the quote i read somewhere earlier - heaven's house band just got a little bit better. R.I.P. Rick