Pink Floyd Death

Pink Floyd keyboard player and founder member Richard Wright has died aged 65 from cancer.

Wright appeared on the group's first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, in 1967 alongside lead guitarist Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason.

Dave Gilmour joined the band at the start of 1968 while Barrett left the group shortly afterwards.

Wright penned songs on classic albums including The Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here.

Wright's spokesman said: "The family of Richard Wright, founder member of Pink Floyd, announce with great sadness that Richard died today after a short struggle with cancer.

"The family have asked that their privacy is respected at this difficult time."

Pink Floyd achieved legendary status with albums including 1973's The Dark Side Of The Moon, which stayed in the US album chart for more than a decade.

Waters left the band in 1981, performing his last concert at London's Earls Court.

Wright, together with Gilmour and Mason and Wright, continued to record and tour as Pink Floyd during the remainder of the 1980s and into the 1990s, releasing their last studio album - The Division Bell - in 1994.

In 2005, the full band reunited - for the first time in 24 years - for the Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park.

Oh no, that's sad.

Sorry the musicians died, but Pink Floyd is immortal.

I though Pink Floyd Died there for a min

R.I.P man

I did not know of this till I was on my way home from work and heard about it on the radio. I don't like Mondays and I felt off today, so I played Animals, by Pink Floyd all day and it did make me feel better. Now I'm sad, but I will feel better while watching PULSE tonight.