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Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has issued a statement regarding the death Monday of Floyd keyboard player Richard Wright. Waters says, 'I was very sad to hear of Rick's premature death, I knew he had been ill, but the end came suddenly and shockingly. My thoughts are with his family, particularly [his daughters] Jamie and Gala and their mum Juliette, who I knew very well in the old days, and always liked very much and greatly admired. As for the man and his work, it is hard to overstate the importance of his musical voice in the Pink Floyd of the '60s and '70s. The intriguing, jazz influenced, modulations and voicings so familiar in 'Us and Them' and 'Great Gig in the Sky,' which lent those compositions both their extraordinary humanity and their majesty, are omnipresent in all the collaborative work the four of us did in those times. Rick's ear for harmonic progression was our bedrock. I am very grateful for the opportunity that Live 8 afforded me to engage with him and David [Gilmour] and Nick [Mason] that one last time. I wish there had been more.' Nick Mason will not be issuing a statement.
Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera has been part of David Gilmour's touring band the past three years along with Wright, and he tells us Rick had an 'amazing talent for creating, with his organ and synthesizer, washes and chord shapes, and the musical context for all the others to create and explore sounds and songs... He was always good company, humorous and eloquent on a whole range of subjects. He was a one-off and will be sorely missed but dearly remembered for his contribution to all those great songs and music that informed and influenced mine and many others' musical development.' Wright was 65.
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