Richard Wright

Obviously bass and synth.

Richard Wright, he's on keys, synth and backing box.

And Nick Mason on drums and percussion.

Recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London and has sold 20 million copies worldwide.

So you see a lot of a lot of stuff coming out in clumps in the fall kind of thing.

But this is a this is a cool punk day because you get Ramones Road to Ruin and Buzzcocks second album Love Bites on the same day and against a Richard Wright you know Pink Floyd solo album Wet Dream a Funkadelic album a Barry White album yeah you're gonna see a lot of disco and stuff mixed in here I haven't mentioned a lot of that but okay November 17th 78 Uh, again, a nice mix here.

The new school outlanders to more from the police comes out the same time as pair Ubu dub housing, same time as Alice Cooper from the inside on the exact same day.

And the notorious love beach album from Emerson Lake and Palmer, um, March 16th, 79, um, UK danger money.

Oh, I didn't know that.

Yeah, Richard Wright.

Night of the Singing Dead.

You might have to add that in.

Okay, my next pick here, uh, this is Pink Floyd, uh, with their 1984 album, The Division Bell.

Uh, this is, uh, long after Roger Waters left the band, uh, so now it's just David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright.

Uh, this song is called Take It Back.

So I spy on her.

There is one more Floyd album that came out in 2014.

Uh, it's called The Endless River, and, uh, it's mostly instrumental music from the Division Bell sessions.

And, uh, it's a tribute to Richard Wright, who died in 2008, sadly.

And the strange thing with Richard in this era is, um, he quit the band after The Wall came out, but he came back for Momentary Lapse of Reason.

Pink Floyd, the first album.

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn from 1967, a tune written by Sid Barrett and Richard Wright, who is also doing the vocals on Matilda Mother.

When's the last time you heard that, huh? Janie's Blues was done by Janice Ian off her very first album, Also 1967.

And then Every Mother's Son.

In a final twist of fate, an unrecognizable, shaved-headed Barrett unexpectedly walked into Abbey Road Studios, During the final mixing sessions for the multi-part epic Shine On You Crazy Diamond, a jarring event that deeply shook the band members and underscored the album's themes of lost innocence and missing connection.

Musically, the record just deposes David Gilmour's soul-stirring guitar work and Richard Wright's atmospheric synthesizers against Roger Waters' razor-sharp lyricism.

Beyond the personal grief that the band felt at the time for Sid Barrett, the album delivered a very biting cynical critique of the corporate music industry.

Songs like Welcome to the Machine and Have a Cigar skewered record executives for treating art like commercial meat, captured perfectly by the guest-sung line, quote, Oh, by the way, which one's pink? End quote.

It placed number 209 in 2003.

It hit number 211 in 2012 and then went to 264 for the latest revision of the list, which was back in 2020-2021.

Rolling Stone magazine also crowned it the fourth greatest progressive rock album of all time, cementing its legacy alongside being the personal favorite selections of both David Gilmour and Richard Wright.

In 1977, Chicago released Chicago 11.