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[COLOR=“DarkRed”]David Dedicates Q Award To Richard
At today’s Q Magazine Awards in London, David was honoured with the Outstanding Contribution To Music Award, which he dedicated to Richard Wright in a speech that conjured a strong emotional response.
David said: “I’m going to dedicate this to my old friend and colleague Richard Wright, who died a couple of weeks ago, and with whom I worked for 40-odd years. There’s all sorts of music I won’t be able to play without him, which is a source of great sadness for me. One of the last things he wanted to do was play a big outdoor festival such as Glastonbury which we were unable to do, which is also a sadness. He deserves this just as much as I do; you could say that he worked in the position of second fiddle to the pushier chaps at the front, but his work was vitally important to our entire career”.
He then proposed a toast to Richard and the entire audience stood and raised their glasses in support and tribute.[/COLOR]
source: www.davidgilmour.com
[COLOR=“DarkOrchid”]Nick Mason Pays Tribute To Rick Wright
"Losing Rick is like losing a family member – in a fairly dysfunctional family. He’s been in my life for 45 years, longer than my children and longer than my wife. It brings one’s own mortality closer. I’ll remember Rick with great affection. He was absolutely the non-contentious member of the band and probably suffered for it. I wouldn’t say he was easy-going, but he certainly never pushed to any aggravation. It made life a lot easier.
"I first met Rick at the Regent Street College of Architecture. And I think Rick was always pretty much that same character I met in 1962. Rock’n’roll is a Peter Pan existence; no one ever grows up. Over a period, we gravitated towards the people who were less interested in architecture and more in going to the pictures and making music. The band happened a couple of years later. We all had very different ways of working. He always knew what he wanted to do and had a unique approach to playing. I saw an interview he did on TV, and he said it clearly: “Technique is so secondary to ideas.” Roger [Waters] said the more technique you have, the more you can copy. Despite having some training, Rick found his own way.
"To some extent, I think, the recognition for what he did in the band was a bit light. He was a writer as well as a keyboard player, and he sang. The keyboard in particular creates the sound of a band. By definition, in a rock’n’roll band people remember the guitar solo, the lead vocal or the lyric content. But a lot of people listen to our music in a different way. The way Rick floats the keyboard through the music is an integral part of what people recognise as Pink Floyd. He wrote “The Great Gig in the Sky” and the music for “Us and Them”.
"We were a very close-knit band and one always has the memory of that. We spent a lot of time together between 1967 and the mid-1970s. Rick was a very gentle soul. My image of Rick would be him sitting at the keyboard playing when all the fireworks were going on around him. That’s the main quality one remembers, in a band where Roger and David [Gilmour] were more strident about what they believed should be done.
“If there’s something that feels like a legacy, it’s Live 8 and the fact that we did surmount any disagreements and managed to play together. It was the greatest occasion”. [/COLOR]
source: www.pinkfloydz.com
[COLOR=“DarkOliveGreen”]Roger Waters Pays Tribute To Rick Wright
I was very sad to hear of Rick’s premature death yesterday, I knew he had been ill, but the end came suddenly and shockingly.
My thoughts are with his family, particularly Jamie and Gala and their mum Juliette, who I knew very well in the old days, and always liked very much and greatly admired.
As for the man and his work, it is hard to overstate the importance of his musical voice in the Pink Floyd of the 60’s & 70’s. The intriguing, jazz influenced, modulations and voicings so familiar in Us & Them and Great Gig In The Sky, which lent those compositions both their extraordinary humanity and their majesty, are omnipresent in all the collaborative work the four of us did in those times. Rick’s ear for harmonic progression was our bedrock.
I am very grateful for the opportunity that Live 8 afforded me to engage with him, & David & Nick that one last time. I wish there had been more.[/COLOR]
source: www.pinkfloydz.com
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