Richard Wright At His French Home, Somewhere Around MCMLXXXVI.

Richard Wrights AAA pass - Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour, MCMLXXXIX.

"There is no pain you are receding. A distant ship, smoke on the horizon. You are only coming through in waves.” — Pink Floyd.

Richard Wright & Pink Floyd, Live Performances of ‘The Wall’ 1980.

“I thought, if I’m going to leave at least I know I’ve got another month or so to carry on working – even possibly with the hope in the back of my mind that things might change. On the live performances Roger was being reasonably friendly. It was difficult but I tried to forget all my grudges, and I enjoyed playing The Wall. I put everything I could into the performances, and I think Roger approved of that. We would talk civilly to each other. It wasn’t too bad at all.” — Richard (Rick) Wright.

“For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.” — Richard (Rick) Wright.

Mick Jagger photographed by Roy Ilingworth at the Appeal Court in Central London, 31st July, 1967.

Richard Wright with Anya and Sue McCloughlin on the Costa Brava in 1960.

Pink Floyd during a photoshoot, 1967.

“I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.” — Syd Barrett.

| MARIANNE FAITHFULL. Getting ready to go to HYDE PARK, 5th JULY, 1969.

NICHOLAS: Where’s Charlie? Charlie! What’s Charlie doing?

MICK: What’s Charlie gonna do?

MARIANNE: He’s going to play the drums.

NICHOLAS + MICK: He’s gonna play the drums!

MICK: Do you think he’s gonna wave at you?

NICHOLAS: The drums!

MARIANNE: Oh yes, he must wave.

MARIANNE FAITHFULL playing guitar in her dressing room at the Olympia. Paris, France. March 25, 1966.

Pink Floyd - Recording sessions at Capitol Studios, Hollywood Los Angeles. May 1970. Courtesy of Capitol Records Photo Archive.

Q: ‘I think Mr. Wright's keyboard work during the early Floyd years was one of the most distinctive elements of the band's sound, and was definitely a key to the band's success. Who were the influences on this keyboard style in the beginning?’

“That is interesting. I would have to say, not necessarily keyboard players actually influenced my sound. For example, I can give you a good example, one of the people I was very influenced by was Miles Davis, the trumpeter and his style of playing the trumpet certainly influenced the way I played the keyboards and also Bill Evans. Simply look at Jazz and that has influenced my way of playing the keyboard.” — Richard (Rick) Wright.

Rick Wright during recording sessions of the album, ‘Obscured by Clouds' at Strawberry Studios, Château d'Hérouville, France 1972. Photo by Jean-Denis Mahn.

"Paint Box" and "Remember A Day" were done soon after Syd left and we still hadn't established the way the band was going to work. Syd, I am sad to say, was no longer capable of working so it came down to Roger, Dave and myself writing songs and I think it came later that we started writing songs together. For example, "Echoes" was where we discovered the best music we created at the time was when all three us of got together and collaborated rather than individually coming to the studio with a song.” — Richard (Rick) Wright.