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Pink Floyd’s Organ Donor Is Dead; the AP Is Excruciatingly Ungroovy

Sad news for anyone awaiting a Pink Floyd reunion: Richard Wright, the band's organist and one of its founding members, died today of cancer. He was 65.
Wright was the linchpin of the Floyd sound. That lush organ, with its beastly Leslies and bent-pitch contortions, preserved and broadened the breathless psychedelia that Syd Barrett [...]