Rick Wright

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Richard William Wright (28 July 1943 - 15 September 2008) keyboardist from Pink Floyd, started his solo career in 1978, when he released “Wet Dream” with Snowie White on guitar, Mel Collins on saxophone, Larry Still on bass and Reg Isadore on drums. It was a very calm album, full of piano, acoustic guitar sounds and with a bit of synthesizers. More than a half of the album were instrumental compositions.

Wright’s next album Broken China was released in 1996. It was a conceptual creation, devoted to Rick’s wife, who suffered from depression. This album consists of four parts with four songs in each part. The music was much more electrified than in “Wet Dream”. The highlight of the album is the song “Breakthrough” with Sinéad O’Connor on vocals. Before his death, Rick was creating music for his new album, but nobody knows when is it going to be released.

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Top Tracks

1	Interlude	305
2	Night of a thousand furry toys	265
3	Breaking Water	256
4	Breakthrough	250
5	Unfair ground	248
6	Runaway	236
7	Reaching for the rail	226
8	Satellite	223
9	Hidden fear	201
10	Sweet July	194
11	Drowning	189
12	Woman of custom	188
13	Far from the harbour wall	170
14	Blue room in Venice	158
15	Black cloud	149

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proggirl wrote:
Friday afternoon

Broken China and Wet Dream are great!

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KaileenaFarah wrote:
last week

Rick :(

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metalmicky wrote:
11 days ago

RIP

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merlinmoon wrote:
12 days ago

Merlinmoon - "Stoned by Dreams" available on ITUNES inspired by Dark side of the moon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybR1K63eK-s

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FourneauB wrote:
12 days ago

Shine on rick

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rockadam wrote:
last month

Hello! Join new group We Don't Need No Education !!!

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lockchef wrote:
last month

good luck on the other side Rick

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Overdrivellar wrote:
last month

Rick, I'll never forget you

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Z-pixol wrote:
last month

good bye mr . Pink Floyd! Rest in peace mr. Wright! We'll miss you!

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mini_ahlin wrote:
last month

Shino On! Favourite member of Pink Floyd.

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Nerisia wrote:
last month

Thanks for everything, Rick. Shine on!

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Kamcio14 wrote:
last month

Shine On!

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duplomaatti wrote:
last month

Thank you Rick. Rest in peace

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rocker_divad wrote:
last month

thank you mate

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space-rocker wrote:
last month

We won't forget you thanks for the music

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followingsun wrote:
last month

for me, the best floydian.

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marinaftw wrote:
last month

We'll always love, and miss you Rick.

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Floyd_75 wrote:
last month

and after all we're only ordinary men. thank you mr. wright

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KidAInLimbo wrote:
last month

We will love, remember, and cherish you always, Rick. We'll see you on the dark side of the moon...

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Introspecto wrote:
last month

RIP

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