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Richard Wright
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cantautore, tastierista, polistrumentista e compositore britannico (1943-2008)
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Richard Wright (1943–2008) was a British musician whose professional career spanned from 1962 to 2008. Associated with genres including progressive rock, art rock, and classic rock, his music has been tagged with descriptors such as "british" and "progressive." On Last.fm, his work has accumulated 663,032 plays from 28,342 listeners.
A separate entry in Open Library lists an author named Richard Wright, born in 1908 and died in 1960. This author is credited with 107 works, including *Black Boy*, *Geographies of Migration*, and *D.C. Noir 2. The Classics*. The musician Richard Wright is also noted in Crossref as having five works.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1908
- Died
- 1960
- Works
- 107
Top works
- Black boy
- Geographies of Migration
- D.C. Noir 2. The Classics
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 28,342
- Total plays
- 663,032
Tags
Richard William Wright (born 28th July, 1943 London, UK - 15th September, 2008) was the keyboardist for the rock band Pink Floyd. He, along with Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Syd Barrett formed the original lineup of Pink Floyd and was an extremely important part of the early Pink Floyd sound. He made several key contributions but perhaps his best known work with Pink Floyd is The Great Gig In The Sky. He was fired from the band in 1979 due to both personal problems and relationship problems w
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 63,263x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,166x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 47,601x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 47,180x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,461x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts.”
- “But the moment he makes the attempt his words falter, for he is confronted and defied by the inexplicable array of his own emotions. Emotions are subjective and he can communicate them only when he clothes them in objective guise; and how can he ever be so arrogant as to know when he is dressing up the right emotion in the right Sunday suit?”
- “But, because the blacks were so close to the very civilization which sought to keep them out, because they could not help but react in some way to its incentives and prizes, and because the very tissue of their consciousness received its tone and timbre from the strivings of that dominant civilization, oppression spawned among them a myriad variety of reactions, reaching from outright blind rebellion to sweet, other-worldly submissiveness.”
- “I sensed, too, that the Southern scheme of oppression was but an appendage of a far vaster and in many respects more ruthless and impersonal commodity-profit machine.”
- “It was this intolerable sense of feeling and understanding so much, and yet living on a plane of social reality where the look of a world which one did not make or own struck one with a blinding objectivity and tangibility, that made me grasp the revolutionary impulse in my life and the lives of those about me and far away.”
- “But he is product of a dislocated society; he is a dispossessed and disinherited man; he is all of this, and he lives amid the greatest possible plenty on earth and he is looking and feeling for a way out.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Family name
- Wright
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- pianist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- reggae
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Capitol Records
- Official website
- rickwright.com
- Image
- Richard William Wright, 1971, Meddle.jpg
- Voice type
- baritone
Show 13 more facts
- Commons category
- Richard Wright
- manner of death
- natural causes
- date of birth
- 1943-07-28
- date of death
- 2008-09-15
- topic's main category
- Category:Richard Wright (musician)
- birth name
- Richard William Wright
- start of work period
- 1962-00-00
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- owner of
- Blackhill Enterprises
- copyright representative
- PRS for Music
- member of
- Sigma 6
- end of work period
- 2008-00-00
- name in native language
- Richard Wright
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Article · Italiano
Richard William Wright (Londra, 28 luglio 1943 – Londra, 15 settembre 2008) è stato un cantautore, tastierista, polistrumentista e compositore britannico, noto per essere stato il tastierista dei Pink Floyd, di cui fu fondatore insieme a Syd Barrett, Roger Waters e Nick Mason. Universalmente riconosciuto come uno dei migliori tastieristi della musica rock, è da molti considerato come l'anima dei Pink Floyd.
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