R.I.P
Richard Wright
7/28/1943 - 9/15/2008

IT IS WITH A BROKEN AND VERY SAD HEART THAT HEMPROCK SHARES THE NEWS OF
PINK FLOYD'S RICHARD WRIGHT'S PASSING THIS WEEK. THIS PAGE IS DEDICATED TO RICK AND TO HIS FAMILY, HIS PERSONAL FRIENDS, INCLUDING DAVID GILMOUR, NICK MASON AND THE REST OF THE PINK FLOYD CREW AND THE FLOYDIAN FAMILY,
INCLUDING MYSELF, FOR THE LOSS WE ARE ALL FEELING AND SHARE.

FROM WWW.DAVIDGILMOUR.COM

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