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| Floyd founder Wright dies at 65 | Floyd founder Wright dies at 65 |
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| Pink Floyd keyboard player and founder member Richard Wright has died aged 65 from cancer. | 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. | 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. | 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. | |
| Wright's 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. | Wright's 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." | "The family have asked that their privacy is respected at this difficult time." |
| Live 8 | |
| 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. | |
| Waters left the band in 1981, performing his last concert at London's Earls Court. | |
| Wright, together with Gilmour and Mason and Wright, 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. |