Though not as prolific a songwriter as his bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmour, he wrote significant parts of the music for classic albums such as Meddle, The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, as well as for Pink Floyd’s final studio album The Division Bell. Wright frequently sang background and occasionally lead vocals on stage and in the studio with Pink Floyd (most notably on the songs “Time”, “Echoes”, “Wearing the Inside Out”, “Astronomy Domine” and “Matilda Mother”). Wright’s richly textured keyboard layers were a vital ingredient and a distinctive characteristic of Pink Floyd’s sound. On their debut album, The Piper of The Gates At Dawn, Barrett was the clear leader. Richard Wright was an English pianist, keyboardist and songwriter, best known for his career with Pink Floyd. They took the name Pink Floyd after bluesmen Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. His first solo album, Wet Dream rings of Floyds. Rick Wright was the keyboardist for Pink Floyd, and it shows. If you click the menu link Discussion, it will take you directly to the Facebook group page for this site, consider it our forums.Īnd if you like our site here, why don’t you stop by our original site, The Syd Barrett Archives, serving up Syd Barrett goodness since 1997! Pink Floyds jazz roots take center stage. I will be slowly building the site back up, so please be patient as I get things done. Tucked away in an Earls Court side street (the Wright residence for three years), theres a green Audi estate in the drive and a bouncing four-month-old boy named. Rick’s SOLE credits for a specific song are in BOLD. Which is all rather appropriate, for 51-year-old Richard Wright has, indeed, coined it via his Pink Floyd tenure and is currently flourishing his third one-man work, Broken China. Following the release of Zee’s experimental album, Identity, in 1984, which Wright later admitted was a mistake, the Pink Floyd musician explored the Greek islands living on board Evrika before eventually rejoining Pink Floyd. Obviously some of these songs are co-authored with other Floyd members. By this time, Wright had left Pink Floyd and had formed Zee with David ‘Dee’ Harris of the New Wave band, Fashion.
Happy Birthday Rick, all your fans miss you.Īnd welcome to the new version of The Richard Wright Archives. Answer (1 of 3): This is a list of all of Rick’s credits in Pink Floyd discography. Well I am bringing it back today 7/28/12 for what would have been Richard Wright’s 69th Birthday. Welcome to The Richard Wright Archives, we had been around as the only Richard Wright website from 2001 – 2008, when Rick passed away our site took a beating and I had to shut it down for awhile.