Richard Wright
You’ve left your messages of thanks and appreciation for Steve DiStanislao, Jon Carin, Dick Parry and Guy Pratt, so today it’s the turn of Mr Richard Wright.
It’s also Richard’s birthday today. Happy birthday, Richard!
Anyone who was fortunate enough to attend one of David’s concerts will tell you that the ovation Richard received when introduced to the audience was extraordinary. So let us know what it meant to you to have Richard on the tour and, if there are a few short words you’d like to forward to Richard, please go ahead.
Who knows? The next time Richard is visiting Guy, he might just be tempted to leave another message for us. (There’s nothing like a little emotional blackmail, is there?)
Dear Richard-
Happiest of Birthdays !!!
As a longtime fan of yours I just wanted to write and thank you for all the wonderful and legendary music that you have given to the entire world. Being an ivory tickler myself, you have always been my favorite member of Pink Floyd and my all time favorite keyboard player. I have been VERY fortunate to have been able to see you several times in concert including the “Animals” tour in 1977, “The Wall” tour in 1980, “The Momentary “Lapse of Reason” shows and more recently at Radio City Music Hall for the “On An Island” tour.
The instrumentals are my favorite part of any Floyd record and your wondrously passionate keyboard work is the reason. “Any Colour You Like” and your hauntingly beautiful note selection on “Wish You Were Here” standout especially.
Your brilliant solo release, “Wet Dream” is one of my favorite records and in constant rotation in my CD player. I have turned so many people on to this record Rick that there may be a royalty issue of some sorts ; ) .
They all say the same thing, “Brilliant, Great, Fantastic, etc….. I believe it is currently out of print but you should really try to rectify that. On the Pink Floyd boards everyone requests it all the time. “Holiday” and “The Great Gig in The Sky” will be played at my funeral that is how important your work has been to me.
Thank you sir, for the writing and contributing to some of the greatest music ever recorded and for providing me the glorious soundtrack of my youth.
Your fan,
Matt Parish
Hello Richard,
Congratulations to your birthday.
Enjoy it.
Nick
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. WRIGHT!
We can’t tell you enough times how we really enjoyed seeing you on the Gilmour tour. Your performance, especially at the RAH, was truly amazing! And thanks again for comming out to meet the few of us outside your hotel in Paris on the last evening there…..
Hope you will do another album as both Wet Dream and Broken China are two of my absolute favorites…
Hope you’ll enjoy your day! Remember we all love you!
Best regards
JT
Hear hear god (matts pic)
Mr Wright you are a total legend, simple as that.
Many happy returns!
Great gig, wearing the inside out, summer ’68 and holiday are all classic pieces of work from your good self.
Can wait for the 5th of August, seeya in Venice! and remember not to cross the street (unless you have a rubber ring handy!!)
I have to say the singing is on it’s way down but the keyboards are still increasing.
Anyway I loved that Richard was in the band!
Happy birthday “dude”…
happy birthday, richard. have a lovely day.
hope you enjoy the european tour. you’re visiting some gorgeous places.
Hi Richard
A very, very happy birthday to you! Hope you have a great day!! I hope the gang have got you a great big cake!
I would like to say how I love your work. I think you have an affinity with David, and it shows in the work you do together. “Cluster”, “Marooned” “Echoes” and “Us and Them” are my absolute favourite Pink Floyd numbers. “Us and Them” is such a gorgeous piece of music, and I have been playing that track a lot lately.
Thanks for all the wonderful music you have created down through the years and I hope you will continue to do so for many more.
I hope you are enjoying the tour, and keep on rocking!
Happy Birthday Richard. Thank you for all your years of hard work. Thank you for continuing on through tough times (just read back interviews through the “Broken China” era and man that had to be tough). Your work is much more greatly appreciated than I think you understand. After all what would “Time” be without your vocals. And “Summer 68′” is one of my favorite Floyd tunes of all time. And having rewatched (Again!!!) the “David Gilmour in concert” DVD, “Breakthrough” is breathtaking, even still. And we won’t even get into “Great Gig” and “Us and Them” those are just classics. Especially “Wearing the Inside Out” that particular tune strikes a chord with me.
So Richard here is to a wonderful career. Thank you for all the great music and I hope you continue on for a while still.
Thank you very much indeed, Good night to you
Joyeux Anniversaire Mr Wright
Thank you for all those years I spend with your and the band’s music
Have a nice day and take care
Happy Birthday Rick. I’m celabrating by buying tickerts to see Muse. Not quite David Gilmour et al but still very good.
Anyhoos, have a great day and all that, don’t forget that you’re always welcome in sunny Huddersfield if you want to come and give me private piano tuition…No? Oh well, don’t blame you.
Dom
x x x
Very best wishes on your birthday, Richard….
The recent RAH shows were such a showcase for your talents. You had me mesmerised with your keyboards for the entire show (but Arnold Layne and Echoes in particular) and showed what a fantastic artist you are. You absolutely nailed the vocal parts and blew EVERYONE’S mind with your hands.
In the few interviews that I’ve heard you give, I love your candour. You’re a straight shooter, and seem to wear your heart on your sleeve – both of which I find admirable. “What a long strange trip its been” as another head once said – and you’ve been with PF since the beginning, helping steer the music to the place we all love.
Once again, a very very happy birthday and thanks from me for everything…but especially the first ‘ping’ of Echoes
Best,
N
p.s. If you do happen to post, please do let us all know what you and the rest of the band thought of David’s little Dark Sphere ‘excursion’
Happy birthday Richard!!!
see you soon in Venice!!!
Happy birthday Richard!
Some of my most favorite Pink Floyd music is when just you and David are playing together- parts of Shine On you Crazy Diamond, Cluster One, Echoes. It’s like listening to two people having a conversation.
I wish I had been able to see the present OAI band when you were in the states and I am looking forward to the DVD. All that great music with you as the keyboard player is magic!!
Have a wonderful, joyous and healthy birthday!
Happy birthday, Richard, master of ivory and ebony!
I wish you all the best, good health, and always the possibility and a lot of fun in making the music of your choice. Have a nice day with your familiy and friends!
Happy Birthday Mr. Richard Wright,
You do a really great job, I was very lucky to be able to see you on the first 2 RAH nights.
I especially remember Wearing The Inside Out from 29 (something exceptional) as well as Arnold Layne from 30. On Polish Radio Programme 3 Your’s birthday was celebrated with 2 songs from Broken China and of course Wearing… from London 2006 concert. Something unforgetable.
Looking forward to see You again in Gdansk at the end of August.
Please accept all the best wishes and enjoy Your Birthday
Tomasz, Poznan, Poland
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RICHARD!
I hope you’ll have a wonderful day! I think touring with this fantastic band could be a good way to celebrate a birthday. For celebrate your birthday, I’ll make for you a lot of ovations during Florence’s show! I can remember how much applauses you had when, in Rome, David said your name! You deserve all of them! HAVE A FANTASTIC DAY! I wish you a lot of happiness!
And I hope the others band’s members are going to celebrate you in a fantastic way! To say about what a great musician you are, I’ll wait for your “what you think about” page!
At last, I hope you and the band enjoyed really much yestarday night. Good luck for the others tour’s dates!
Cheers!
L!
CAPTION: “Rick holds aloft that dark globe in tribute to a lost genius”
RICK WRIGHT: The Pink Floyd sound has many different lairs to make it magical but none more so than David’s guitar and voice harmonised with Rick’s keyboards . To me that is the Pink Floyd sound. If anybody disagees please listen to the Final Cut.
Rick you are a Legend.
Rgds Geoff Duffy ( Dublin )
Mr. Richard Wright, Happy birthday.
The same people that have put out ‘Dub Side of the Moon’ have also turned their hand to Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’ (Radiodread). Am just listening to it now, and knowing that there are quite a few Radiohead fans here (DG, Lucia, FEd to name a few?), thought I’d point it out. Good fun and really well done. Enjoy
N
So, FEd, I write again…how should we say? The show must go on! I hope my post for Richard was good enough for you! I hope it was what you was expecting from me! Should I image you didn’t agree about my suggestion? However, I’ll continue to support you in this blog and I’ll try to follow your rules…probably not with the same passion but with serenity…I’m just disappointed because I feel a lot a “customer”….but you have to do your job and you do it in a good way!
Have a great day, my dear!
L!
Dear Mr. Wright,
A very happy birthday and many returns to you.
I have always greatly admired the sense of emotion and the ‘nuances’ in your play. The subtle changes in vibratoes and tremoloes. Simply splendid and unarguably an important part of Floyd’s catching atmosphere.
My absolute favourites : “Great gig in the sky” and “Breakthrough” with Mr. Gilmour back in 2002. Spinal shivers and goosebumps. Every time. To me, that is what music is about.
I truely hope you will continue to do that for another many years.
I remember singing “Happy Birthday” to you with the audience in Chantilly twelve years ago. So Muenchen, Vienne, Firenze and Venice audiences, start rehearsing !
My best regards,
Ralph
Belgium
– Nice cheeky one on the emotional blackmail, FEd ;-)
Buon Compleanno Richard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are GREAT GREAT GREAT.
Ciao.
Flora
Dear Fed,
Just some words for our Richard (do we know others Richard?!), to tell him how he belongs to our lives, our dreams, our tears or our laughs, just like David, and to say happy birthday, it’s only the beginning…
Take care..
Ikkar, with love
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RICHARD!!!
I always considered you as one of my favourite musicians ever. Your contribution to Pink Floyd music is fundamental and makes of you my favourite band member.
I always loved your compositions as well as your masterful, subtle, playing. The sound of your keyboards along with David Gilmour’s unsurpassed guitar creates the sound we loved for all of these years.
Your solo albums are also very special to me, and both Wet Dreams and the wonderful Broken China are amongst my favourite albums ever.
I obviously heard the rumours about your new solo album, and I hope they are true and that you are indeed working on a new masterpiece: nothing would be better for me (aside a new album from Pink Floyd, that is ;-))
I’m from Italy so I am going to see you and David perform in Venice, next friday and in the meantime I’m enjoying the Pulse DVD.
So allow me to wish you again all the best for you, your family and your work. And THANK YOU, Richard, for everything you did so far and you’ll do in the future.
Tanti cari auguri,
Stefano
Happy Birthday Richard!!!!!
Just a note to say thank you for all the beautiful music you gave us over the years……
Was just listening to “Summer ’68″ and got the goosebumps again, just like everytime I hear “Shine on You Crazy Diamond”, especially the beautiful beginning & the outro on part 9….., which to me is just perfect.
You rightly deserved that tremedous applause in Glasgow when you were introduced…..
Have a great day!!!!!!!!
Ciao Richard,
If you will here someone shouting “BRAVO RICHARD” in Florence it will be me.
Your liquid keyboards were always great. We all know what you have done with Pink floyd, but you know that you made “the divison bell” a good album with “wearing the inside out”?. Sorry David, but that was the best track of the entire album.
Happy brithday and….how many???
Pier
Happy birthday, Mr. Richard Wright, the soul of Pink Floyd!
I still remember those years in my teens, when I was crazily looking for your “Zee” album in the music stores all around Europe. And how happy I felt when I managed to get a digital copy of it!!! (I’m still trying to buy the original record)
As a tribute for your birthday, I’ve been listening today to Zabriskie Point sessions. I recommend this record for all those who still can’t appreciate how much Mr. Wright has been essential for PF sound. His raw piano playing here, which was the seed for the later Us and Them, still thrills me.
I was glad to see you enjoying playing at the RAH and I hope this will be a trigger for you to continue a loooong and fascinating solo career.
I could write huge post just to express my admiration for you, but FEd will probably ban me
All the best in this special day!!!!
Happy Birthday, Rick!
Your contribution to the music of Pink Floyd is really underrated. Syd gets the recognition for “Piper at the gates of dawn,” but it’s your vocals and solos that make the album for me (no offense intended to the inimitable Syd).
Songs like See Saw and Summer 68 are very special to me, as are your music for “Great Gig in the Sky” and “Us and Them.” “Shine On, You Crazy Diamond” would not have been the same at all. Let’s not forget your work on “Division Bell” and, of course, “On An Island.”
Thank you for 40 years of music, Richard Wright. Your music has touched my life in a big way.
Happy Birthday to you.
Happy birthday, Richard! I echo what’s already been said. No one’s mentioned ‘Paintbox’ though. I love that track. Your contribution to ‘Atom Heart Mother’ deseveres a mention, too.
So have a good one and thank you for all that you’ve given us down the years. We appreciate it.
As a huge fan of Syd’s, a special thank you for doing ‘Arnold Layne’ on this tour.
Happy birthday Richard!
Thank you for all your music. You and David complement each other perfectly both instrumentally and vocally. It was a great pleasure to see you perform at the RAH.
Enjoy the rest of the tour.
Dear Richard
A happy birthday from germany, wish you all the best.
And thank you so much for your music.
Best regards
Andreas
Congratulations, Richard !!!
Keep going strong, and best of luck !
Greetings from Belgrade & Copenhagen.
Nebojsa Lalatovic
Happy Birthday, Rick! It was great seeing you with David.
Dear Richard -
Hopes For A Very Happy Birthday, Indeed!
It seems so little for someone who’s given so much, but know that it comes from the heart. I’ve been a fan of yours, Davids and the Floyd for more years than I’d like to admit; and you have never failed to impress.
I’m especially fond of many of your early works (Summer of 68, Remember a Day, Paintbox and It Would Be So Nice). Though my all time favourite song is probably Echoes, which you and David sang as beautifully on this most recent OAI tour as you two did in Pompeii. The rich harmonious blending of your voices has provided decades of pleasure! You two are truly the melodic half of the Pink Floyd.
Finally, I would like to take a moment to complement you on your extraordinary musicianship. When some/most early works (Echoes included) long instrumentals built to a cacophonous crescendo, broke, then it was you at the piano or keyboard that brought it all back together for a melodic conclusion. So many songs simply couldn’t exist as we know them without you. The importance of your contribution to the Floyd simply cannot be overstated.
So, Thank You for all the years of joy you’ve brought, and may this be a remarkable year for you… May all your wishes come true.
jo
(UK and L.A.)
RICK RICK RICK RICK
YEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAA
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RICHARD WRIGHT!
You are the most wonderful Hammond, Piano and Keyboard player I have ever heard! And I have heard quite a few, your playing has moved my emotions more times than I can remember.
You are just one year shy of being twice my age Richard!! So that must mean you are at least twice as good as me at everything. And at least 10000, 00000 times better at playing keyboards than I am! As I don’t even know my black keys from my white ones! One black key has half the sound of one white one right?
So if you play 2 black keys at the same time you get one whole white note.
Who said 2 half black ones don’t make a white ;o)
Errrm do you do lessons Richard? My guitar only has all silver strings on it!
Thanks again for my prize FEd and SNed I am enjoying it immensely
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Happy Birthday Richard, thank you very much for giving us your music.
I’ll raise my glass to you tonight
Indeed, a very Happy Birthday Richard- you’ve long been an under-rated part of the Floyd’s musical history, I feel.
And how good must David’s rendition of ‘Dark Globe’ have been?
(Offers to sell own nuts into slavery to get this track included on the DVD!)
Congratulations, Richard
Please come to BRAZIL
Hi Rick! Or should I say Richard? Anyway: a very, very, very happy birthday to you! And thank you so much for your music! As someone wrote before, you created the soundtrack of my life. I have always been a Floyd fan and to me you ARE Pink Floyd.
Just listened to the WYWH album and your keyboard parts blow me away every time I listen to it. I’ve seen you on David’s tour in Hamburg and Amsterdam and it was good to hear you singing ‘Wearing The Inside Out’, I love that song, your voice and your sound! Also loved your singing on ‘Arnold Layne’ at Jools Hollands show.
Keep up the good work and I’m looking forward to a new solo-record!
All the best,
Peter
Congratulations Richard!
There’s a lot of people that really appreciate your work and your strong contribution to Pink Floyd. We are all looking forward to your solo album.
Good luck to you.
All the best,
Nicholas
I am not able to use the right words for thanking Mr. Richard Wright. Let me just say you are a part of my life, your music, your words and your English way….
Just a question: how much are you enjoying performing ECHOES? I do remember the “plin” in Milano…and Carin was throwing on your’s feet….
Thank you for being there, for performing live, for sharing with the fans your life…
I am seeing you in a few days, that’s fantastic..
by the way, happy birthday, of course….
Happy Birthday Richard!
Thanks for the all the music and memories over the years!
I hope there is more to come (perhaps a small US tour with your pending solo albulm?)
More importantly, I hope the year finds you, Millie and everyone around you healthy and happy
Best Regards!
-Craig
hi Mr. Wright!!! happy birthday!
I just want to tell you that the synth part of Shine On You Crazy Diamond “PART IX” is absolutly incredible…………….
will you ever play it in Venice?
bit random, but click the link and answer a few questions to see which pink floyd member you are…
apparently I am David Gilmour!!
I’m off down the town to buy a strat.
If I really was David Gilmour I’d probably never leave the house, just play play play aaaah. Shine on.
M. Wright, I have waited for a long time for a blog entry dedicated to you !
I very appreciate when you are playing with M Gilmour, I think you are both together the soul and the heart of PF.
I enjoyed very much in 2002 in Paris when you sang and played ‘Breaktrough’ with David and this year in Paris again when you sang and played ‘Wearing the inside out’, I felt such a great complicity between you two !
I will be so happy if I can see you on Monday too…
I wish you a happy birthday, a wonderful day with your family.
I’m waiting for your new album (I heard about it ) with impatience !
Michèle
- sorry, out off topic: I don’t like the new Lucia, too serious and too docile…
Happy Birthday Richard,
I’m sure this one IS one of your happiest, at least you seem to be really enjoying life at the moment, if your performances with David are anything to go by…
Even though it may be a Summer Elegy, because of Syd’s passing, I trust you are having a Sweet July and that you enjoy your stay in the Blue Room In Venice.
I “echo” the calls for you to re-release WET DREAM, it’s a really underrated album and sadly I don’t have it on CD :0(
Has all this work with David inspired you to go into the recording studio…
I know of some illustrious people you could cajole onto the road in 2007 (no I don’t mean the Barn Band either…) sorry Bianca, no offence intended ;0)
Many happy returns to Richard Wright.
Richard Wright is a magician. His music invokes images in the minds eye which are in direct accord with what his musical composition is all about.
Take Sisyphus for example on Ummagumma. His music in this composition conjures up visions of Tartarus and one can envisage Sisyphus rolling his stone up the hill and hear it entering the door with the rivers of the Elysian Fields on the outside and just as Sisyphus is about to push the stone outside in his bid to freedom (Richard’s magic hand strikes the keyboard dramatically – ddduuuuuuuuuhhhhhh) and then the stone rolls back again down into Tartarus.
He keyboard playing is very evocative on many Floyd compositions.
Richard, you are a genius.
Best regards.
Julie
Happy Birthday Rick! I don’t know what to say other than thanks for all the great music over the years. Your music has moved me in more ways that I can say.
Happy Birthday Richard,
It was wonderful to see you perform in May.
I love your piano playing and i’m really glad that you’ve rediscovered your love of perfoming.
Looking forward to seeing you play again, and to the new album.
Have a good day
Vicky
Happy birthday,Mr.Wright!!
I think that you and David Gilmour are really the soul of the band for all these years.
See you at Firenze( I’d like to listen to ‘Wearing the inside out’…)
Ciao
Emilio
Richard, I’ve played piano since I could reach the keys at age two, and your style has certainly been an inspiration to me. If David is “the voice and guitar” of Pink Floyd, then you must be the creamy icing on the top. I loved hearing and seeing you at Radio City – it was a real dream come true. Wishing you a very wonderful birthday with much love.
xo
Deborah
Richard, it was wonderful to see you at the Mermaid theatre so obviously enjoying your playing and providing that unique style and substance to David’s band.
Take it easy and keep on rocking…in a mellowed out sort of way!
have a great bd Richard. may you have many healthy more!
it was great to see Richard w/ David this go around. a true musical artist.
i hope to see more of all in the future.
CHEERS!!!!
Feliz Cumpleaños!!!
I was listening to something I recorded the other day and realizing how much your style has influenced me. Thanks for that, and thanks for the great time during this tour…I can’t tell you how much fun it was watching you spank those keys into submission and especially so during ‘Echoes’!!!!
Your Dominican-American Fan from the Bronx, NY
Angelo
“Fuggedaboutit!!!”
Thank you…..thank you…….
Happy Birthday Richard !
Very happy to see you on David’s album and tour and hope to see you again soon.
Joyeux Anniversaire Rick !
I’m glad I’ll see you on Vienne next monday. I really appreciate your Wearing the Inside Out at the Olympia, Paris, on march.
One of my deepest wish is to hear live on stage some songs like See Saw or Summer’68… Maybe, one day… J’espere !
Juju…
Richard, I hope you can enjoy your holiday while your are a guest here in beautiful Austria. All the best wishes!
I liked the show yesterday a lot, it was great. Though I missed the song “Wearing the inside out” that was on the setlist at previous concerts. I was very much looking foreward to it, as I like the tune and the voice of “Mister Richard Wright, a legend” (as he was introduced by David yestarday ar Clam).
Hope to see you again some day,
Corvus
Richard “Fingers” Wright
Pen blwydd hapus!… Happy Birthday from a Welshman in Toronto…
Happy Birthday Mr Wright!
Pink Floyd has been a rollercoaster of emotions for you, and seeing that now the relationship with the band (after the 94 tour) and the captain (david and his solo tour) is brilliant, I hope you have energy enough for making yet another brilliant solo effort, and even a tour.
A great deal of the Floyd sound is yours man, dont let anyone say the contrary
Happy Birthday Mr. Wright!!!
Caption Competition
No-one really knew why the Police Officers had to hold Richard at gunpoint as they arrested him…
I would like to wish you a very happy birthday Richard. I’ve always thought you were fabulous; creating that typical, beautiful Floyd-sound together with David, but you made me cry with happiness in Amsterdam and London recently during Echoes. Thanks!
Guitar Tab of “On An Island”.
The Amazon Canada site has an entry for the Guitar Tab of On An Island, but its listed as currently unavailable.
What’s the scoop?
Thanks!
[There isn't one. There will be a book coming out and when we have the official date, we'll let you know. - Features Editor]
Sail On Richard!
There are some nasty folks who say that you and Nick are interchangeable in Pink Floyd and not really essential…
That is a pack of lies…
I think you have defined soooo much of the PF sound over the years..as much as David has. I really cannot imagine PF without you. They maybe able to try and imitate you but you are the ORIGINAL!!
Happy Birthday Rick!
Cheers, Howard
PS Your Wet Dream CD is my fav solo PF work
Happy Birthday MR Richard Wright!!!!
Have a good one.You were absolutely fantastic at the Royal Albert Hall and you played wearing the inside out on my concert!!!
You were also brilliant during Echoes!!!
Thanks for your excellent contibution to Gilmour’s concerts.
Happy birthday rick!!
Tanti auguri!
see you soon in venice
Happy Birthday Richard
When i begun playing keyboards 10 years a go in a band. Me and my brother’s. I was the keyboard player of the band, i had to study because i liked very mutch the sound Hammond B3 and Rhodes sound. You where my primary inspiration, the Hammond B3 Rich Wright Trade Mark sound …
I brought your “Broken China” album, really great. A bit of dark ambient music but there is “The Pink Floyd Sound” in there.
Another thing i like you is your voice, we all know that you don’t feel to comfortable with it, but without it the music Echoes didn’t had that emotional impact that it has.
Thank you for your music and Happy Birthday
CARPE DIEM Rick
Rui Monteiro
Happy Happy Happy Birthday! Richard Wright!
I just got off the phone wishing my mother a happy birthday and then opened the blog and wow it’s your b-day too! I am disappointed with myself that I didn’t know it was your b-day after all these years and memories.
Thank you so very much for being an essential force in my memories. I know you are preparing to work on your next solo album, so drag David, Guy and the rest of the group out on the road with you. Trust me, this Floyd/Gilmour community will support you and make your tour a success as well!
Cheers,
Stephen Rado
NY, USA
Happy Birthday to one of the finest keyboard players in music–Mr. Richard Wright.
Your playing has always added the right colors and textures to Pink Floyd’s music and on your solo albums as well. Wether it was sparring with Syd Barrett on early gems like Interstellar Overdrive and See Emily Play or adding the right shades for David to play over on Mudmen, Wish You Were Here or the atmospheres on Poles Apart, you’ve always been the right guy for the job.
Shine On Richard and may you be around to celebrate many, many more!
A very happy birthday Rick,
I just ain’t right without you.
Michèle, my dear! I’m here! Reading all your posts and enjoying myself doing that! I didn’t want to be too serious or too docile! I’m just ok! Should I be more aggressive? And make FEd angry? NO!!! I’m just reading and having pleasure from the blog! Probably I already have been too much argumentative and who am I to do it!
HAVE A GREAT DAY AND ENJOY!!!! (I said that loud, so I wasn’t too much serious and docile!)
L!
Hi everyone! Happy birthday Mr. Wright. Many years to live…
Has Dave any plan to come to Brazil??? Please come to Brazil just once… There are many many fans here…
Bye
[No plans, sorry. - Features Editor]
Ciao,
RIPPER: I was Syd Barrett!! the result said I am moody…and even if it is just a joke, it is true!! hehehe
Happy Birthday Richard!
I just want to say what an inspiration you have been to me and millions of others. It was a dream come true to have seen you perform at the Royal Albert Hall in May, and it was great to be a part of the wonderful ovations you received.
Thanks for everything!
Peace, David.
Parabens Mr. Wright!!! Felicidades!
glorious,
my computer is super slow, so i get to say happy birthday Rick Wright again, hurrah!!
Happy birthday
Adam
Richard:
Happy Birthday to a cornerstone of the Pink Floyd sound! Hope that all is well with you and your family.
Sadly, I don’t have any of your solo albums, I wish I did – I’m going to keep looking for them.
Keep having fun on David’s tour. Loved your work at Massey Hall. Thanks for everything!
Happy Birthday Richard !
It was such a pleasure to see you play at the RAH, and to see you so enjoying playing. Two dreams came true – Great Gig, the greatest song ever, with you at the keys and that first ping of Echoes ! Electrifying.
Hope to be able see you again.
Martin.
All good wishes to you, Richard, on your birthday! You are the best! Hope your day is a very happy one!
Thank You Richard, you are one of a kind. Happy Birthday, enjoy it well.
Thanks so much for your fantastic evocative touch on Pink Floyd’s keyboards, Mr Wright. We have all dreamed with your sophisticated style in playing piano, hammond and synths in these 40 years of great music.
Long life to you, have a nice time and Happy Birthday
Richard,
That I would just like to say it would be so nice if I could echo the above sentiments.
But no one knows what I did today so against all the odds there can be no other way to remember a day.
All the best on your birthday
Pete – Coventry
(I must stop this lunchtime drinking !)
“Thought I’d something more to say…”
Imagine these songs without the invaluable contributions from the original “Mr. Wright”
The Great Gig in The Sky
Ticking ( Every year is getting shorter…)
Us and Them
Echoes
Breathe
Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts I–V and Parts VI–IX
Nobody Home
Any Colour You Like
Eclipse
and so many, many more…
If David is the voice, and Roger the brain then it could truly be argued that Richard is the heart of Pink Floyd…
Thank you sir,
Happy Birthday
Dear Richard,I would like to thank you for your huge contribution to music.
I am 16 years old and first came across you when i heard Wearing The Inside Out from The Division Bell album, how much that changed my C.D. collection. I now own Broken China, Identity and my personal favourite Wet Dream.
I hope you enjoy today and take Time to pause, consider what you’ve done (its an awful alot)The wind is blowing, so go take a holiday! youve deserved it!:P
Keep Composing!
Happy Returns
Nick
OK! My moment arrived!
So, DEAR RICHARD! There are really words enough to say how much great is your contribution in music world, in Pink Floyd albums and in David Gilmour’s shows? The title of a song you know very well and play in a way that seems a daydreaming is the best way to explain what a fanastic musician you are: “The Great Gig In The Sky”. But the others are not less wonderful! I love piano and I love your piano!
Have you ever think about a Richard Wright piano solo tour? I will be there! And, of course, if you’d add to the piano a bit of your sweet voice the result could be unforgettable! And David could be a wonderful guest star! You could do Echoes…at Rome it was simply incredible! Your presence in David tour was a fantastic gift for us! Thanks a lot! I wish you 100 of this days and…see you for the Richard Wright piano solo tour!
With honest admiration
Thanks for all!
L!
P.S. I was forgetting…thanks for posting here some months ago…it was incredible! You made us very happy!
Richard,
All of us around the world stand and cheer for you at the shows and also today on your birthday.
Thank you for all of the great years, music and memories.
Peace
John
Happy Birthday Mr Wright.
Thank you for it all.
May it all be plain sailing from now on in.
longue vie à vous david et richard.
longue à vie à cet enchantement qu’est votre musique!
Fed,any news on a new Richard Wright tour or album? As i am aware he did not ever do a Broken China tour…
[No, sorry. We wouldn't know, as we manage David only. - Features Editor]
CAPTION: Richard decided to start a one man Mexican wave on his birthday.
Happy birthday, have fun.
Happy Birthday, and don’t take too long on the new solo album – the last two were great!
(he is working on one right, I didn’t just dream that news did I?)
Happy Birthday Mr. Wright
Having just listened to “Wish You Were Here” again in Syds honour, just always marvel at the soul in your playing. That album just makes me cry everytime,(it’s a good cry though!)
I will listen to “Wet Dream” in your honour today for sure! Have a Happy Birthday and come back to the States soon!
Much Love and peace
Joe Auger
Rhode Island USA
Richard,
I hope you have a very happy birthday!
Let’s get out the ole thesaurus to describe your contribution to music: indelible, lasting, permanent, memorable, beautiful, evocative (and hundreds of words more).
The minute I heard the piano chords from ‘Us & Them’ and ‘Great Gig’ was the minute my auditory DNA was re-mapped. You could have stopped there in securing your lasting reputation as far I am concerned, but your sometimes overt and sometimes subtle contributions to the songs and compositions that came before and followed after are every bit as important. Thank You.
Enjoy the rest of the summer and upcoming performances. I hope you are having a blast!
Karima
Finally, the quiet genius in the corner gets his deserved praise. Richard you rock, it’s as simple as that you give something when you play that is uncomparable and well you’re just great.
I may not be able to articulate in any other way but I’m sure the rest of the bloggers will, we love you and a very happy birthday.
Best wishes and a very happy birthday to Mr Wright.
Many more!
I was SO happy to see you performing with David this year. Grateful for your talents and the opportunity for my son to be able to see a legend in our own time. I can’t stop talking about the show or stop listening to the music, and, I never will.
Thank you.
Regards!
Happy Birthday to you, Mr Wright. Its been an amazing musical journey you’ve brought us along on. In addition to the your great work with Pink Floyd, I was immediately blown away by your Wet Dreams lp which is still one of my favorite solo works by a member of the Floyd. Here’s hoping the process of making your newest album is as glorious as your past recorded and onstage contributions!
With regards,
Darren
[Some of my most favorite Pink Floyd music is when just you and David are playing together- parts of Shine On you Crazy Diamond, Cluster One, Echoes... It's like listening to two people having a conversation]
It’s exactly what I think – Great Music! and I like also your beeing so discreet as if you were afraid to impose yourself. I remember some of your interviews or when you enter into stage in Gilmour in Concert.
I’m happy to have had the opportunity to see you in Rome, the ovation you received was moving.
I whish you all the best (and for us many of your returns on stage).
Happy birthday!
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