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Richard Wright was an English keyboardist and songwriter who co-founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. He played on almost every Pink Floyd album and performed on all their tours, and also had a solo career and a jazz influence.
Learn about the life and works of Richard Wright, an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. He wrote about racial themes and the plight of African Americans in the 20th century.
Sep 3, 2024 · Richard Wright (1908–60) was a novelist and short-story writer who inaugurated the tradition of protest explored by other Black writers after World War II. From the late 1930s through the 1950s, Wright was a dominant voice laying bare the discrimination and injustice that Black Americans were experiencing, notably through his novel Native Son ...
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Richard Wright, the keyboardist whose somber, monumental sounds were at the core of Pink Floyd’s art-rock that has sold millions and millions of albums, died Monday in London, where he had...
Sep 18, 2008 · Richard Wright, the Pink Floyd keyboardist who died of cancer at age 65, didn't play many solos or sing lead on anything you're likely to remember. He had just two moments to himself in the ...
Sep 15, 2008 · Richard Wright was in the midst of a comeback alongside his Pink Floyd bandmate David Gilmour before cancer claimed his life on Sept. 15, 2008.
Sep 15, 2008 · 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...
