We recently lost one of musics huge stars, Richard Wright of Pink Floyd.  We here at MusiBlog will all miss him and send our reguards to his family and friends.  Wright died on Monday, September 15, at his home in Britain after a long battle with cancer. He was 65 years old or as we like to say 65 years young.  We know that his music holds a special place in so many people hearts that his sound will carry on forever.  We hope that everybody remembers only the best of the fallen Richard Wright.

Here are some comments from Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour regarding the death of keyboardist Richard Wright:

“No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend.”

“In the welter of arguments about who or what was Pink Floyd, Rick’s enormous input was frequently forgotten.”

“He was gentle, unassuming and private but his soulful voice and playing were vital, magical components of our most recognised Pink Floyd sound.”

David Gilmour goes on to say….

“I have never played with anyone quite like him. The blend of his and my voices and our musical telepathy reached their first major flowering in 1971 on Echoes. In my view all the greatest PF moments are the ones where he is in full flow. After all, without “Us and Them” and “The Great Gig in the Sky,” both of which he wrote, what would The Dark Side of the Moon have been? Without his quiet touch the album Wish You Were Here would not quite have worked.”

“In our middle years, for many reasons he lost his way for a while, but in the early Nineties, with The Division Bell, his vitality, spark and humour returned to him and then the audience reaction to his appearances on my tour in 2006 was hugely uplifting and it’s a mark of his modesty that those standing ovations came as a huge surprise to him, (though not to the rest of us).”

“Like Rick, I don’t find it easy to express my feelings in words, but I loved him and will miss him enormously.”