One of the founding member of Pink Floyd, Richard Wright, died at the age of 65 at his home in England. His obituary from the Associated Press: Pink Floyd member Richard Wright dies age 65 By MEERA SELVA - 14 minutes agoLONDON (AP) — Richard Wright, a founding member of the rock group Pink Floyd, died Monday. He was 65.Pink Floyd's spokesman Doug Wright, who is not related to the artist.
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Pigs (Three Different Ones) (1992 Digital Remaster) - Pink FloydDuring August recess, many legislators have heard an unexpected amount of discontent from their constituents about what is happening on Capitol Hill, particularly regarding healthcare. Some people are justifiably terrified at what the government could do to healthcare, should it get its claws even further into it. Others demand ...
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Last week Congress passed the war supplemental appropriations bill. In an affront to all those who thought they voted for a peace candidate, the current president will be sending another $106 billion we don't have to continue the bloodshed in Afghanistan and Iraq, without a hint of a plan to bring our troops home. Many of my colleagues who voted with me as I opposed every war supplemental re...
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UFO was London's first psychedelic club, the equivalent of the Electric Circus in NYC or the Fillmore in SF. It was started by music entrepreneur Joe Boyd and John Hopkins (aka "Hoppy") in an Irish dancehall called the "Blarney Club", a basement venue under the Berkeley Cinema. This wasn't the first time the location had been an essential nightclub; from 1919-1926 it was a jazz club where race...
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Earlier this week Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright, 65, sadly passed away following a battle with cancer. I love Pink Floyd. To me Dark Side Of The Moon is not only one of the greatest albums ever made, it is the first album EVER that I remember spinning non-stop, continuously, all the way through, from start to finish as a very hyper-active kid. It mellowed me out better than a dose of...
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LONDON (Sept. 15) - A Pink Floyd spokesman says founding member Richard Wright has died. He was 65.Wright died Monday after a battle with cancer at his home in Britain. His family did not want to give more details about his death. The spokesman is Doug Wright, who is not related to the artist.Richard Wright met Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and Nick Mason at college and joined their early ban...
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On December 4th, just in time for the holidays Pink Floyd will release another 40th anniversary set. But this one is really worth the wait. Oh By The Way will be an album-spanning career retrospective, which will include every one of Pink Floyd's studio albums between 1967's Piper at the Gates Dawn and 1994’s The Division Bell. Well, almost every album. Rarities album Relics live albums Delicat.
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These quotes about reunions and reunion tours don't always turn out the way I want them to. I haven't heard anything about a Led Zeppelin reunion tour in awhile, despite quotes like "You never know what is around the corner" and "The amount of work that we put into the 02 [reunion concert]... was probably what you'd put into a world tour anyway."Said words usually just become words that get swe...
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INDIO, Calif. (AP) - A giant helium-filled pig didn't drift off to hog heaven after it was released into the night sky during Roger Waters' performance at the Coachella music festival. It's been found - in pieces. Two couples found tattered halves of the inflatable swine in their yards, a few miles from festival grounds in the Southern California desert. Concert organizers had offered a $10,000...
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This fall marks the 30th anniversary of The Wall, Pink Floyd’s landmark album of loss, depression, and, ultimately, total isolation from reality. The seminal work featured Roger Waters at his zenith as a conceptual artist and also, sadly and inevitably, brought an end to the band, lumbering on for just one more album, The Final Cut, with their leader.Of course the Floyd continued on without Wat.
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A wealth of live recordings will be released from the BBC broadcast archives for the first time ever, thanks to a deal between BBC and EMI. While EMI continues to relieve record execs with one hand, it's picking up music catalogs with the other hand. This deal will make previously unreleased music from Pink Floyd, The Beach Boys, Coldplay, Lily Allen, David Bowie, Kylie Minogue and more avail...
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It's quite aggravating that the loss of Roger Water's inflated pig is getting more press than the show itself. (If you want to find out more about the pig's tragic end, read this: http://mog.com/Charley_Rogulewski/blog_post/159280?from=latest_newsThe focus should be on the epic, orgasmic (ehem), apocalyptic performance itself. I have experienced a hand-full of rare, cosmic, skin-prickling conce...
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I haven't heard anything from the online digital music distributer 7digital in quite awhile and I've been wondering what's up over there. I finally heard some news from them, and boy is it BIG NEWS! 7digital has released Pink Floyd's entire catalog of albums as DRM-free high quality mp3s in the UK! Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall are currently selling for £5.49 and £6.99, but according to.
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In an attempt to harvest email addresses, eMusic has put what they call a "*Music Intelligence Test*":http://www.mymusiciq.com/ on line.It's actually more of a "Music General Knowledge" test, but it's interesting.I'm almost ashamed to admit that i only scored 108 out of a possible 180...
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At last night’s tribute “Syd Barrett – Madcap’s Last Laugh” Pink Floyd almost got together again. While all existing members were there to pay their respects to the late founding member of the band (Barrett died in July 2006) the event was just shy of a full fledge Pink Floyd reunion. While all members of the band were present at the London venue, the four did not play together: Guitaris
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