The website is a fascinating and absorbing look at Richard, and includes many previously unseen pictures and videos, a number of which were taken by Richard himself, and some pages are also accompanied by musical excerpts. "Through his own words and images, his musical loves and photos as well as the words of those who knew and worked with him, we believe that he would be happy to have this more personal window into his creative world opened." Giving him an online presence is well overdue and we have spent some time curating and archiving content that we feel best celebrates his legacy in a way he would feel comfortable with. It is rather somewhere to explore and hopefully come away with a better sense of who Richard was creatively and what influenced his music, as part of and apart from Pink Floyd. This site doesn’t profess to be a comprehensive or encyclopaedic source of Richard Wright facts and figures or trivia. "Welcome to the Richard Wright website, a space which aims to offer a unique insight into his musical life. It therefore seems entirely appropriate that an official website, celebrating the man and his music, should be set up, and now one has! Going under the easily remembered website address of, the site has been put together by Richard's family, and they describe the aims as follows: The ovations that met him nightly on David's 2006 tour were well deserved but Richard always seemed taken aback by them. With the forthcoming release of Green Floyd’s The Endless River, a collection of posthumous recordings with late keyboardist Richard Wright during sessions for 1994’s The Division Bell, it got us thinking of all the fantastic materials that the founding Floyd member wrote or co-wrote during his time with the legendary band. In an interview with Record Collector magazine back in 1996 he revealed his 10 favorite albums of all time. The latter, like several of Pink Floyds LPs, is a concept album, with every song revolving around a common theme. Richard Wright was an essential part of Pink Floyd but never necessarily got the focus that David Gilmour or Roger Waters did over the years. Legendary Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright created amazing albums with the band and is considered one of the best musicians of all time. Keyboardist Richard Wright made three albums on his own: Wet Dream in 1978, Identity in 1984, and Broken China in 1996.
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