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DevilWearsPrada
Sep 15th, 2008, 09:57 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080915/ap_en_ot/eu_britain_pink_floyd_5




LONDON - Richard Wright, a founding member of the rock group Pink Floyd, died Monday. He was 65.
Pink Floyd's spokesman Doug Wright, who is not related to the artist, said Wright died after a battle with cancer at his home in Britain. He says the band member's family did not want to give more details about his death
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080915/ap_en_ot/eu_britain_pink_floyd_5)Wright met Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and Nick Mason in college and joined their early band, Sigma 6. Along with the late Syd Barrett, the four formed Pink Floyd in 1965.
The group's jazz-infused rock and drug-laced multimedia "happenings" made them darlings of the London psychedelic scene, and their 1967 album, "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn," was a hit.


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Dixie
Sep 16th, 2008, 01:09 PM
I'm more broken up about Frank Mundis.
Early Pink Floyd was terribly self-indulgent.

DevilWearsPrada
Sep 16th, 2008, 05:03 PM
Well iirc he's been with Floyd since the beginning

Dixie
Sep 17th, 2008, 03:44 PM
And Mason is still better than he was.

DevilWearsPrada
Sep 17th, 2008, 06:51 PM
Well GAWD

Dixie
Sep 18th, 2008, 02:08 AM
I love being a buzzkill.