RICHARD WRIGHT
Richard Wright (28 July 1943 – 15 September 2008) was an English musician, composer, singer and songwriter, best known for his career with Pink Floyd. A multi-instrumentalist, Wright's richly textured keyboard layers were a vital ingredient and a distinctive characteristic of Pink Floyd's sound. Wright frequently sang harmony and occasionally lead vocals on stage and in the studio with Pink Floyd. Though not as prolific in songwriting as his band mates Roger Waters, Syd Barrett and David Gilmour, he wrote significant parts of the music for classic albums such as Pink Floyd's Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, as well as for The Division Bell and the band's final studio album, The Endless River. (More from Wikipedia)
In 1966, the Farfisa Organ was even more prominent in the hit song "Double Shot (of My Baby's Love)" by the Swingin' Medallions (who were from South Carolina). That lovely organ that you hear in Percy Sledge's immortal 1966 hit "When a Man Loves a Woman" is a Farfisa, and Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone was playing one at his landmark Woodstock performance in 1969. Richard Wright's Farfisa Organ was a key element on many of the early Pink Floyd albums, particularly The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Ummagumma, but also including The Dark Side of the Moon. Elton John was able to get a different sound entirely from a Farfisa Organ on his hit "Crocodile Rock".
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The manager of Chimera (and possibly the producer for at least some of the recording sessions) is none other than Nick Mason, the drummer for Pink Floyd and the only bandmember who has appeared on all of the PF albums. His bandmate in Pink Floyd, Richard Wright played keyboards on "Lady with Bullets in Her Hair".
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