member of the Historical Pink Floyd, Rick Wright died of cancer the age of 65. Wright was one of the founders of the British band in 1965 along with Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Syd Barrett.
Richard William Wright was born in London on July 28, 1943 from a wealthy family. After a few past the London College of Music, he enrolled at the Faculty of Architecture, where he met two future members of Floyd, Roger Waters and Nick Mason. Along with Barrett founded one of the most important bands of all time. The composition of vein
Wright has contributed songs to epic and far-reaching as A Saucerful of Secrets, Echoes and Shine On You Crazy Diamond. But the most commercially successful tracks signed only by the keyboard are two historical pieces: one taken from Dark Side of the Moon (1973), The Great Gig in the Sky, and another, Summer '68, by Mother AtomHeart 1970.
Keyboardist and singer was fired after several disagreements with Floyd by Roger Waters at the time of The Wall in 1979. Back into the group in an official capacity in 1987 during the sessions of A Momentary Lapse of Reason, when it was David Gilmour at the helm.
BIOGRAPHY Born into a wealthy family in the district of Hatch End to London, as a teenager he entered the London College of Music, and there he has his first encounter with the music. Forget your piano lessons after just two weeks. Later he enrolled at the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Architecture. He meets Roger Waters and Nick Mason , but soon abandoned his studies to pursue his passion for music. In 1965 the three, along with Syd Barrett , founded Pink Floyd. After the release of
Syd Barrett, Wright became the composer's melodic group. The similarity of his voice with the guitarist who replaced Barrett, David Gilmour is used to create special effects in some songs.
Although not prolific as his fellow Waters and Gilmour, Wright has contributed substantially to the same wide-ranging and epic, such as A Saucerful of Secrets, Echoes and Shine On You Crazy Diamond. His most successful pieces of trade are two songs on the album Dark Side of the Moon (1973 ): The Great Gig in the Sky and Us and Them, but also "Keep talking" comes from "The Division Bell" (1994).
be remembered among his compositions are certainly Sysyphus album Ummagumma ( 1969) and Summer '68 album Atom Heart Mother ( 1970).
The Pink Floyd album that has increased its contribution is certainly Wish You Were Here. There is hardly a place where there is this album, background, the carpet Wright Music. His is also the music-in which uses three-synthesizer sounded simultaneously which ends the album, played alone without the participation of the other three.
After some personal problems related to their personal lives (divorce), and probably also to excessive use of cocaine (which is always denied by the applicant), Wright was sent off by Roger Waters during the recording of The Wall (1979). Continue to play the next concert 1980 and 1981 promoting the album, but only as a salaried musician even if it must be emphasized that in all cases the final greeting was always present with the other Floyd. Ironically, Wright was the only one to gain economically from the concerts, since the costs - as well as his pay - had to be paid by other group members.
next album, The Final Cut ( 1983), is the only one that Rick Wright, now permanently excluded from the group, does not contribute. Despite this, he and drummer Nick Mason are the only members of the group to have played at every concert of Pink Floyd, The Final Cut place had no promotional tour.
In 1984 he formed a group with Dave Harris, the Zee . After signing a contract with Atlantic Records , Zee's released their first and only album, Identity .
Following the complete failure of the album, Wright was absent from the group since the concerts "The Wall" of 1980-81, was called by Gilmour to help out during the closing session of "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" [1987] (Waters has now left the group for four years), working on some tracks of 'album. Is reinstated as a full member of the group with the album Delicate Sound of Thunder ( 1988), a double that selects between the material recorded at concerts of the tour following the album. The album
next Division Bell (1994), writes and sings five songs Wearing the Inside Out, certifying his personal artistic rebirth to lofty levels.
Encouraged by the decisive contribution to The Division Bell, in 1996 Wright released his second solo album, Broken China, where among the guests appearing talents as Sinead O'Connor, Pino Palladino and Tim Renwick . The album was not commercially successful, but in time it was really re-evaluated, so that a song of this album was included in the lineup of the few Gilmour concerts in 2001-2002.
In 2006 Wright returns to the studio to collaborate with Gilmour on the third solo album of the latter, On an Island playing on two tracks. The album will have a critical and commercial success of raggiugerà really noisy and the No. 1 in many countries such as Italy and the United Kingdom. The next tour of David Gilmour, Wright has participated as a permanent member giving the bottom of all the harpsichord and its repertoire and to contribute in terms of vocal performance, illuminating the scene with his sensitivity. The tour has been very successful in all dates. Witness the experience and stature of the Wright Music is its tour DVD released in Italy September 14, 2007. From the point of view
instrumental Richard Wright in the history of Pink Floyd has built the "wall of sound" beyond which stood out on his epic solo Gilmour. Extraction of jazz, has managed to evolve until you enter in a natural environment and a psychedelic sensibility really unparalleled. His moments
levels may be considered for the entire first two album, the riff repeated body of Atom Heart Mother , synthesizer laden with effects Any color you like, along with those of almost obsessive Welcome to the machine and Dogs, Sheep the intro, the round of Hammond in Pigs (Three Different Ones) and part of the album's keyboard The Division Bell. His undisputed masterpieces, including in the composition, are undoubtedly the wall of sound and the intro to Echoes , the whole sound portion of The Great Gig In The Sky , the plan Us and Them, synthesizers Shine on you crazy diamond .
As lead singer of Pink Floyd has always provided support sporadic but thick, often as part of agreement. Her best vocal performances are certainly recognizable in the songs Echoes, Time , "Burning Bridges" and Wearing the Inside Out . Also notable is his vocal performance in the live version of Arnold Layne , Floyd's first single, revived in 2006 by David Gilmour in ' On An Island "tour.
Richard Wright died suddenly September 15, 2008, after a brief fight against cancer.
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