THE GREAT RICK IN THE SKY

Along with Rogers waters and Nick Mason, Richard Wright was founder member  of “Architectural Adabs”.  Later that year Pink Floyd was formed with the addition of  Syd Barrett.

Richard Wright was as English Musician, Songwriter, composer . He was founder member, keyboardist and vocalist of the Legendary Progressive Rock band Pink Floyd.

Following Barrett's departure and replacement by David Gilmour, Wright took over writing duties with Waters however step by step became less concerned as a singer and composer because the band's career progressed. His organ enjoying remained a vital a part of the band's live set, as well as "Interstellar Overdrive", "Set the Controls for the center of the Sun" and "Careful therewith Axe, Eugene"and he contributed musical themes for film scores (More, Zabriskie purpose and Obscured by Clouds). 

He created important contributions to Pink Floyd's long, epic compositions like "Atom Heart Mother", "Echoes" (on that he harmonious with Gilmour for the lead vocals) and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". On 1973's The Dark facet of the Moon he composed the music for "The nice Gig within the Sky" and "Us and Them".He additionally contributed to alternative album tracks like "Breathe" and "Time", singing the lead vocals on the latter's chorus.

Wright's contributions to the band diminished within the late Nineteen Seventies as Waters began to write down a lot of material, with Animals being the primary album that he didn't receive any songster credits. By the time the cluster was recording The enclose 1979, Waters had become annoyed that Wright wasn't contributory enough nevertheless still claiming associate equal share of production royalties. Wright refused to catch au fait the recording backlog as his initial wedding had deteriorated and he had not seen enough of his kids, deciding family was a lot of necessary. 

Waters thought of suing Wright, however ultimately determined a neater factor to try to to would be for Wright to depart the band at the tip of the project. because the band was in money bother at the time, Wright in agreement to those terms. many alternative musicians, as well as Waters, Gilmour, producer Bob Ezrin, musician Michael Kamen and session player Fred Mandel compete keyboards on The Wall. 

Wright was maintained as a salaried session musician throughout the live concerts to market that album in 1980–81, however ironically he became the sole member of Pink Floyd to exploit the initial run of the expensive Wall shows, since internet loss had to be borne by the 3 remaining "full-time" members. Wright didn't attend the 1982 premiere of the film version of Pink Floyd—The Wall. In 1983, Pink Floyd free the ultimate Cut, the sole album from the band on that Wright doesn't seem. His absence from the credits was the primary time fans complete he had left the cluster, that was formally confirmed some years later.