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Richard Wright Among Founders Of Pink Floyd

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The Associated Press

Published: September 16, 2008

LONDON - Richard Wright, a founding member of the rock group Pink Floyd whose keyboard lines and ethereal vocals were an integral part of its psychedelic sound, died Monday. He was 65.

Pink Floyd's spokesman Doug Wright, who is not related to the artist, said Wright died at his home in Britain after a battle with cancer.

Wright met Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and Nick Mason in college and joined their early band, Sigma 6. 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.

The band released a series of commercially and critically successful albums including 1973's "Dark Side of the Moon," which has sold more than 40 million copies.

Information from Bloomberg News was used in this report.

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