Richard Wright
Progressive rock, Songwriter
1943 – 2008
Who was Richard Wright?
Richard William "Rick" Wright was an English musician, composer, singer and songwriter, best known for his career with Pink Floyd. A multi-instrumentalist, Wright's richly textured keyboard layers were a vital ingredient and a distinctive characteristic of Pink Floyd's sound. Wright frequently sang harmony and occasionally lead vocals on stage and in the studio with Pink Floyd.
Though not as prolific a songwriter as his band mates Roger Waters, Syd Barrett 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 The Division Bell.
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- Born
- Jul 28, 1943
Hatch End - Also known as
- Rick Wright
- Wright, Rick
- Wright, Richard
- Richard William Wright
- Richard William "Rick" Wright
- Spouses
- Juliette Gale
(1965 - 1982) - Franka Wright
(1984 - 1990) - Milfred Hobbs
(1995 - 2007)
- Juliette Gale
- Children
- Ethnicity
- White people
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
- University of Westminster
- Lived in
- Pinner
- Died
- Sep 15, 2008
London
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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