“They were God-like figures to us,” Mason said of the Fab Four, who let Floyd watch as they recorded “Lovely Rita.” Back behind the controls, Barrett & Co. Next door, the Beatles were working on Sgt. It was 1967, and the Floyd were holed up in Abbey Road recording their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. “ In the welter of arguments about who or what was Pink Floyd, Rick’s enormous input was frequently forgotten.” Here we revisit 12 great moments in Wright’s career. “He was my musical partner and my friend,” Gilmour said. Wright’s jazzy piano and organ lines, his early songwriting credits and his venerable vocal performances were all hallmarks of Pink Floyd’s sound. “It is hard to overstate the importance of his musical voice in the Pink Floyd of the Sixties and Seventies,” Waters said at the time in a statement. Wright, who co-founded the Floyd in 1965 and played on all but one album in the band’s discography, died 10 years ago today at the age of 65 after a battle with cancer. With Barrett, Waters and Gilmour commanding the spotlight, both in the band and in the press, it’s easy to undervalue the contributions of the other two members, drummer Nick Mason and keyboard player Richard Wright. Syd Barrett reigned over the madcap, bluesy space-rock era Roger Waters ruled the proggy, introspective concept-album days and David Gilmour ran the atmospheric, textured and sometimes instrumental later phase. Three of those men had their turn helming the project, each one inflecting it with a unique flavor. Throughout Pink Floyd’s three-decade-plus history, the band employed only five full-time members.
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