Sempre quando falamos em Pink Floyd é comum vir a discussão "Waters ou Gilmour", esquecendo-se sempre de Mason, Wright e Syd. Para mim, mais do que as letras de Waters, ouvir Pink Floyd é som, viagem musical, timbre e profundidade sonora. Não consigo ver - e ouvir - isto sem a voz e a guitarra de Gilmour e sem a voz e os teclados de Rick Wright.
Hoje, 15 de Setembro de 2008, Rick Wright faleceu, vítima de cancer.
Há poucas informações sobre a morte, mas é uma notícia verdadeiramente triste. O trabalho de Rick Wright é fundamental para o som do Pink Floyd - e para inúeros trabalhos do próprio Gilmour. Vale ouvir Wright com Gilmour em "On an Island". Também Rick Wright possui um belíssimo trabalho solo.
Dia triste para a música e para o rock... Rick, I see you on the dark side of the moon!
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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
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15 Sep 2008
The family of Richard Wright, founder member of Pink Floyd, announce with great sadness, that Richard died today after a short struggle with cancer.
The family have asked that their privacy is respected at this difficult time.
Richard Wright
Born 28 July 1943 (65)
