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Floyd founder Wright dies at 65

Pink Floyd keyboard player and founder member Richard Wright has died aged
65 from cancer.
Wright appeared on the group's first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn,
in 1967 alongside lead guitarist Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason.
Dave Gilmour joined the band at the start of 1968 while Barrett left the
group shortly afterwards.
Wright penned songs on classic albums including The Dark Side Of The Moon
and Wish You Were Here.
His spokesman said: "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."
He did not say what form of cancer the self-taught keyboard player and
pianist had.
Wright, a founder member of The Pink Floyd Sound - and other previous
incarnations including Sigma 6 - met Waters and Mason at architecture
school.

Pink Floyd achieved legendary status with albums including 1973's The Dark
Side Of The Moon, which stayed in the US album chart for more than a decade.
Wright, known as Rick earlier in his career, wrote The Great Gig In The Sky
and Us And Them from the album.
Waters left the band in 1981, performing his last concert at London's Earls
Court.
Wright, together with Gilmour and Mason, continued to record and tour as
Pink Floyd during the remainder of the 1980s and into the 1990s, releasing
their last studio album - The Division Bell - in 1994.
In 2005, the full band reunited - for the first time in 24 years - for the
Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park.