Richard Wright

The Pink Floyd keyboard player Richard Wright sadly died last month of cancer. He was sixty five. Whilst he was perhaps a lesser Floyd colossus than Waters, Gilmour and Barrett, he nevertheless wrote some beautiful songs.

As Gilmour has said in tribute, what would have The Dark Side Of The Moon been without the two tracks 'The Great Gig In The Sky' and 'Us and Them'? These were both written by Wright. There is a calm and a serenity to these pieces, which contribute enormously to the album's appeal.

The album itself, one of the best selling of all time is about aging, madness and death. It's powerful, almost out of control, and yet it is also calm and serene.

To play it again now in honour of this great man is fitting tribute indeed.