Anyone who watches Remember That Night or Live in Gdansk can see the joy in Richard bubbling up to the surface and how fun it is to watch that. Which makes it all the more terrible and sad that he was taken away from the world.
His contributions will live on forever because that band he was in is immortal and it would not have gotten as good as it did without Richard.
Richard Wright was a phenomenal player, whatever else he did or didn’t do. I loved the varied and soaring sounds he could wrest out of the keyboard. It was like a soul in flight.
Richard will always be missed, and his music will remain for generations to come.
I’m sorry to say that I did not remember the anniversary of Rick’s death, but I did remember that the 13th of this month was the 5 year anniversary of my sister’s untimely death. She was 32 and my only sibling and I miss her very much.
Anyway, it’s interesting how we spend our lives remembering such dates, and marking our time this way.
I long for the day when I will become ‘Comfortably Numb’.
I, too, have one sister and can only imagine your loss. Keep her always in your heart.
Jan
don alcott
sigh.
i’m glad i had the opportunity to see him in such an intimate setting as massey hall with david in 06. what a special night.
we were coincidentally playing shine on the other night.
hopefully richard is sailing around the heavens in his favorite yacht. much love to all you and all in the floyd family. sorry for your loss david. i know how important he was to you. and us.
As many have already said, “Can’t believe it’s been a year since he was taken from us”.
When will people learn the value of human life and stop killing each other? I’m thinking of the young people currently dying in far off lands fighting wars none of us understand.
God bless you Richard. My thoughts are with your family and those closest to you.
I miss him dearly too and funny I only got within 50 feet of him at Massey Hall.
He and David have had a profound effect on me since On an Island. I think we’re ageing together as we’re such old Floyd friends. Bloody cancer has to spoil all of the good times.
Thanks Polly for your magic with this very special photo.
I’m still so sad about your passing away Rick. Pink Floyd died with you. You were such an important part of this band. I still get tears in my eyes every time I watch the Live8 performance. You seemed so pleased and intense during Dave’s incredible solo at the end of Comfortably Numb.
Pink Floyd has deeply mark my life. I was 3 the first time I heard Ummagumma. I never stopped being passionate about your music. The keyboard parts on the Wish You Were Here album were the work of a genius. Their musical quality as well as in their sound never got old looking back.
The 80′s music with the heavy keyboards sounds much more dated than your work from 1975.
You were the humble one, the quiet one Richard. But you were a critical chemical element of the whole chemistry.
I’m sad that there never was any event to remember you and your music.
After an extremely busy week I’ve had, I’ll have to play my Rick tribute CD tonight that I made a year ago after his passing. I can’t believe he is really gone. He sure is missed.
Remembering Rick in this way brings a happy smile to our faces.
The world will remember your legacy in the music industry for the centuries to come. Planet Rock is the least and only the beginning.
What’s time got to do with your works and the efforts you made in promoting the world’s rock music? What’s age got to with it?
I am 36 from Iran (don’t panic! I have got no nukes with me!), and ever since I was 14 years old, I have kept listening and perhaps living days and nights with your masterpieces. “On an Island” is the ultimate that I was always expecting from you to complete my collection.
Hopefully you won’t stop doing the nice job. I count on it.
I’m fixin’ to be 61 years old and have been lovin’ the Floyd since the very early times.
When I was still young, I had a tattoo of the DSOM icon inked on myself. My screen name – pnk flyd qhs – (pinkfloyd every hour of sleep/night) is exactly what I do, jam out to the Floyd every night. I can listen over ‘n over ‘n over, and pick out new instruments every time, and I’ve been paying close attention for Rick’s input.
What a shame, what a loss, but we will always have his legacy.
I had the chance to hear Richard play on three different nights. One was at Soldier Field on the ’94 tour, and then on back to back nights on David’s most recent tour, all of which were in Chicago. I’m so glad I got to see and hear him play.
It’s still hard to accept that he passed. I was out of town when I heard the news at the time; I heard it on the radio and thought that the DJ was doing a wacky ‘bit.’ No such luck… But, was so lucky to hear him while I could.
Am sorry, had not realized that a year had passed since Richard’s passing.
Life been struggle lately… and sometimes you don’t see or recall things that you would have done normally.
I do hope his Family and Friends, along with there sadness, managed to reflect on the good times they had together… and some happy memories helped ease some of the sadness.
I know it takes years for pain to become bearable… but I do hope this year will be easier for them than last year.
I think he would be proud of how many hearts he touched and that his life had brought joy to so many people.
He touched my life and never knew it… many a night the music he helped make… got me through some bleak and dark moments.
Je ne pense pas Sylvie. J’ai lu en quelque part que lorsqu’il a été diagnostiqué ça a pris quelques semaines et c’était fini…
Je trouve étrange qu’il n’y ait pas eu d’hommage, de spectacle, de cérémonie… Syd Barrett a eu quelques concerts.
Je n’ai même pas pu trouvé un seul article relatant ses funérailles.
C’était peut-être ses volontés, car dans le dernier interview qu’il a donné, il était toujours cet homme si humble et incapable de comprendre tout le succès que Pink Floyd a eu!
I’m not late with my thoughts. I still can’t deal with Richard’s passing, to the point where I leave the room before the end-bit of the “Which One’s Pink?” doc because I don’t like reading that.
This is a great picture though. Just from watching documentaries and interviews I think he was very happy to do that tour and that is a wonderful thing.
Um ano sem o querido Rick, saudades eternas de sua fã Brasileira, que ouve e curte Pink Floyd desde criança e infelismente nunca tive a alegria de ve-los tocar a vivo!!!!
Sua imagem sempre estará comigo… saudades eternas…
Hello, first my apologies for the translation, not fluent in English.
I’m 33 years old, I’m from Argentina and from age 13 to hear Pink Floyd, Richard, David and Roger, your music truly touched my soul… My reason why I would get to David is simply because I never understood the reasons for not approaching South America or Latin America, beyond the political differences between governments, just think music is characterized by breaking those barriers. Do not know if that is the reason, I would like because you never know? Pay any money to see them live, and I grew up with them, I hope someday to know.
I find myself still thinking of Richard very often. He was my favorite PF member and I feel the best and most underrated musician in the band (no disrespect to David meant).
It did my heart good (and I was surprised) to see Rick playing on David’s solo tour-especially since I got the vibe that he was hesitant originally to even let Rick back into the band in ’86 when they regrouped for the “Momentary” album. It seems the years after that really re-established their friendship, and it made “Division Bell” my favorite PF album since “Wish You Were Here”, and a true collaborative album.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Richard told David about his being ill (and I believe Rick had also recently separated from his last wife), and this is what lead David to having Rick play on his tour and even appear on his “Island” album, as well as those cool “Barn Jams” done as only a quartet. On one of the recent live DVDs David even commented that having Rick on his solo tour was a nice touch musically and he felt it was probably “good for Rick as well”. Read between the lines on that a bit… Which speaks volumes about David as a human being and friend I’d say.
I am so touched by this last comment of GH, and today my thought is just for Richard on his birthday’s day.
I cherish in my heart the joy to have seen him with David in Venice in OAI tour , with all his strength, energy and passion in his performance, together his kindness and class as musician and, I can believe, also as human being.
I’ll never forget that night.
Thank you Fed for the freedom to add comments again into this post.
Thank You Elisabetta. I sure would have loved the chance to see Rick perform live myself. I always held out the hope of a small solo tour at some point in his career…
Anyone who watches Remember That Night or Live in Gdansk can see the joy in Richard bubbling up to the surface and how fun it is to watch that. Which makes it all the more terrible and sad that he was taken away from the world.
His contributions will live on forever because that band he was in is immortal and it would not have gotten as good as it did without Richard.
Rest in peace Rick.
I always remember that night au Grand Rex in Paris and the luck to be there.
C’est malheureusement une composante de l’alchimie du son Pink Floyd qui a disparue.
Grand respect pour l’oeuvre et la discrétion de Rick Wright.
Wow. What heartache. That whole year and tour took on a whole new meaning once Richard passed. My thoughts are with his family and friends.
Little did we know when we first saw this picture what it would come to mean.
Richard Wright was a phenomenal player, whatever else he did or didn’t do. I loved the varied and soaring sounds he could wrest out of the keyboard. It was like a soul in flight.
He certainly won’t be forgotten.
Richard will always be missed, and his music will remain for generations to come.
I’m sorry to say that I did not remember the anniversary of Rick’s death, but I did remember that the 13th of this month was the 5 year anniversary of my sister’s untimely death. She was 32 and my only sibling and I miss her very much.
Anyway, it’s interesting how we spend our lives remembering such dates, and marking our time this way.
I long for the day when I will become ‘Comfortably Numb’.
32… Why is life so unfair?
Bisous, Mel.
Sorry Mel.
Melissa:
I, too, have one sister and can only imagine your loss. Keep her always in your heart.
Jan
sigh.
i’m glad i had the opportunity to see him in such an intimate setting as massey hall with david in 06. what a special night.
we were coincidentally playing shine on the other night.
hopefully richard is sailing around the heavens in his favorite yacht. much love to all you and all in the floyd family. sorry for your loss david. i know how important he was to you. and us.
a gentle kiss from hushabye mountain…
As many have already said, “Can’t believe it’s been a year since he was taken from us”.
When will people learn the value of human life and stop killing each other? I’m thinking of the young people currently dying in far off lands fighting wars none of us understand.
God bless you Richard. My thoughts are with your family and those closest to you.
Paul
I miss him dearly too and funny I only got within 50 feet of him at Massey Hall.
He and David have had a profound effect on me since On an Island. I think we’re ageing together as we’re such old Floyd friends. Bloody cancer has to spoil all of the good times.
Thanks Polly for your magic with this very special photo.
David keep playing for us!
I’m still so sad about your passing away Rick. Pink Floyd died with you. You were such an important part of this band. I still get tears in my eyes every time I watch the Live8 performance. You seemed so pleased and intense during Dave’s incredible solo at the end of Comfortably Numb.
Pink Floyd has deeply mark my life. I was 3 the first time I heard Ummagumma. I never stopped being passionate about your music. The keyboard parts on the Wish You Were Here album were the work of a genius. Their musical quality as well as in their sound never got old looking back.
The 80′s music with the heavy keyboards sounds much more dated than your work from 1975.
You were the humble one, the quiet one Richard. But you were a critical chemical element of the whole chemistry.
I’m sad that there never was any event to remember you and your music.
Rest in peace, my spiritual father.
Just wanted to say that Richard will never be forgotten, he gave us so very much. Thank you!
A small tribute made in those sad days!
That is a great photo. I love seeing it again.
After an extremely busy week I’ve had, I’ll have to play my Rick tribute CD tonight that I made a year ago after his passing. I can’t believe he is really gone. He sure is missed.
My best wishes to his family and friends.
RIP Richard.
Remembering Rick in this way brings a happy smile to our faces.
The world will remember your legacy in the music industry for the centuries to come. Planet Rock is the least and only the beginning.
What’s time got to do with your works and the efforts you made in promoting the world’s rock music? What’s age got to with it?
I am 36 from Iran (don’t panic! I have got no nukes with me!), and ever since I was 14 years old, I have kept listening and perhaps living days and nights with your masterpieces. “On an Island” is the ultimate that I was always expecting from you to complete my collection.
Hopefully you won’t stop doing the nice job. I count on it.
Always in our mind and spirit, Pink Floyd!!!
I’m fixin’ to be 61 years old and have been lovin’ the Floyd since the very early times.
When I was still young, I had a tattoo of the DSOM icon inked on myself. My screen name – pnk flyd qhs – (pinkfloyd every hour of sleep/night) is exactly what I do, jam out to the Floyd every night. I can listen over ‘n over ‘n over, and pick out new instruments every time, and I’ve been paying close attention for Rick’s input.
What a shame, what a loss, but we will always have his legacy.
I had the chance to hear Richard play on three different nights. One was at Soldier Field on the ’94 tour, and then on back to back nights on David’s most recent tour, all of which were in Chicago. I’m so glad I got to see and hear him play.
It’s still hard to accept that he passed. I was out of town when I heard the news at the time; I heard it on the radio and thought that the DJ was doing a wacky ‘bit.’ No such luck… But, was so lucky to hear him while I could.
I am late to this but wish to add that I think of Richard Wright’s keyboards as elegant.
I am so glad that I was able to see him once before he was gone. I loved his gentle touch on the keys with such lovely melodies.
Jan
Am sorry, had not realized that a year had passed since Richard’s passing.
Life been struggle lately… and sometimes you don’t see or recall things that you would have done normally.
I do hope his Family and Friends, along with there sadness, managed to reflect on the good times they had together… and some happy memories helped ease some of the sadness.
I know it takes years for pain to become bearable… but I do hope this year will be easier for them than last year.
I think he would be proud of how many hearts he touched and that his life had brought joy to so many people.
He touched my life and never knew it… many a night the music he helped make… got me through some bleak and dark moments.
I can never thank you guys enough for that…
Julia
I was wondering if he knew that he was that sick when he did the On an island tour or if he got sick all of a sudden after.
Thank you Fed and by the way, Hi Fed!!!
Je ne pense pas Sylvie. J’ai lu en quelque part que lorsqu’il a été diagnostiqué ça a pris quelques semaines et c’était fini…
Je trouve étrange qu’il n’y ait pas eu d’hommage, de spectacle, de cérémonie… Syd Barrett a eu quelques concerts.
Je n’ai même pas pu trouvé un seul article relatant ses funérailles.
C’était peut-être ses volontés, car dans le dernier interview qu’il a donné, il était toujours cet homme si humble et incapable de comprendre tout le succès que Pink Floyd a eu!
Vincent de la région montréalaise!
I cant believe it yet that Rick isn’t among us.
Peace on him…
I’m not late with my thoughts. I still can’t deal with Richard’s passing, to the point where I leave the room before the end-bit of the “Which One’s Pink?” doc because I don’t like reading that.
This is a great picture though. Just from watching documentaries and interviews I think he was very happy to do that tour and that is a wonderful thing.
Nobody like him, you know.
Um ano sem o querido Rick, saudades eternas de sua fã Brasileira, que ouve e curte Pink Floyd desde criança e infelismente nunca tive a alegria de ve-los tocar a vivo!!!!
Sua imagem sempre estará comigo… saudades eternas…
How I wish…
Beautiful picture, he seems so happy.
I really miss him. His voice will live on in his songs.
x Lauraa
RICK WAS A GRACIOUS CAT. CANT BEGIN TO SAY HOW MUCH I MISS HIM.
Hello, first my apologies for the translation, not fluent in English.
I’m 33 years old, I’m from Argentina and from age 13 to hear Pink Floyd, Richard, David and Roger, your music truly touched my soul… My reason why I would get to David is simply because I never understood the reasons for not approaching South America or Latin America, beyond the political differences between governments, just think music is characterized by breaking those barriers. Do not know if that is the reason, I would like because you never know? Pay any money to see them live, and I grew up with them, I hope someday to know.
My thanks for your music!
Matthias… From this place in the world.
I find myself still thinking of Richard very often. He was my favorite PF member and I feel the best and most underrated musician in the band (no disrespect to David meant).
It did my heart good (and I was surprised) to see Rick playing on David’s solo tour-especially since I got the vibe that he was hesitant originally to even let Rick back into the band in ’86 when they regrouped for the “Momentary” album. It seems the years after that really re-established their friendship, and it made “Division Bell” my favorite PF album since “Wish You Were Here”, and a true collaborative album.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Richard told David about his being ill (and I believe Rick had also recently separated from his last wife), and this is what lead David to having Rick play on his tour and even appear on his “Island” album, as well as those cool “Barn Jams” done as only a quartet. On one of the recent live DVDs David even commented that having Rick on his solo tour was a nice touch musically and he felt it was probably “good for Rick as well”. Read between the lines on that a bit… Which speaks volumes about David as a human being and friend I’d say.
Dear All ,
I am so touched by this last comment of GH, and today my thought is just for Richard on his birthday’s day.
I cherish in my heart the joy to have seen him with David in Venice in OAI tour , with all his strength, energy and passion in his performance, together his kindness and class as musician and, I can believe, also as human being.
I’ll never forget that night.
Thank you Fed for the freedom to add comments again into this post.
Love
Elisabetta
Thank You Elisabetta. I sure would have loved the chance to see Rick perform live myself. I always held out the hope of a small solo tour at some point in his career…
All my best to you, Elisabetta!!
-Gary