Pink Floyd Founder Richard Wright, 65

Terry del Fuego

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Sep 15, 2008, 11:57:28 AM9/15/08

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Matthew Kruk

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Sep 15, 2008, 12:44:04 PM9/15/08

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"Terry del Fuego" <t_del...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Bit of a shock. RIP

Dblspace

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Sep 15, 2008, 1:51:22 PM9/15/08

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On Sep 15, 10:44 am, "Matthew Kruk" <Matthew.K...@Telus.net> wrote:
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> Bit of a shock. RIP

What a tragedy! If only the remaining Floyds would unite in his
memory. A series of cancer awareness concerts would do. Oh Rick, we
hardly knew ye!

Tariq...@gmail.com

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Sep 15, 2008, 2:17:14 PM9/15/08

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On Sep 15, 6:57 pm, Terry del Fuego <t_del_fu...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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Sad. Were watching him last night in the Albert Hall gig with Gilmore.
We've lost one the best.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/sep/15/pink.floyd.member.dies

J.D. Baldwin

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Sep 15, 2008, 2:41:48 PM9/15/08

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In the previous article, Dblspace <Dbls...@aol.com> wrote:
> > Bit of a shock. =A0RIP

>
> What a tragedy! If only the remaining Floyds would unite in his
> memory. A series of cancer awareness concerts would do. Oh Rick, we
> hardly knew ye!

"Cancer awareness"?
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Matthew Kruk

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Sep 15, 2008, 9:06:41 PM9/15/08

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"Terry del Fuego" <t_del...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:44:04 GMT, "Matthew Kruk"
> <Matthe...@Telus.net> wrote:
>
>>Bit of a shock.
>

> Indeed. There weren't even rumors in fan circles that he was sick.
> This came out of nowhere on what was already shaping up to be a crappy
> day for the world.
>
> Within the last couple weeks, David Gilmour gave an interview wherein
> he said that he had no desire whatsoever to reunite the band and
> didn't think it would ever happen again. Something to the effect that
> he bore no animosity toward anyone, he'd just moved on. I wonder now
> if he knew this was coming.
>
> I thought their Live 8 performance was terrific. Now it's officially
> how they went out. As a 30+ year major fan, I can't really imagine a
> better end.
>
> I think I can truly say that I've derived more ongoing, repeatable,
> uncontaminated pleasure from listening to Pink Floyd's music than from
> literally anything else in life. For me, this is one of those very
> rare celebrity deaths that hurts.

Wholeheartedly agreed. Very much a surprise and as you mentioned perhaps
David knew.

Aje RavenStar

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Sep 24, 2008, 6:55:39 PM9/24/08

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"Matthew Kruk" <Matthe...@Telus.net> wrote in message
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Quite a bit of a shock to me. And I've still got 10 days of news to catch
up on, particularly local.

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