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...Richard Wright, the Pink Floyd keyboardist who died of cancer at age 65, didn't play many solos or sing lead on anything you're likely to remember. He had just two moments to himself in the songwriting sun: the echo-heavy ballad Us and Them and the wordless The Great Gig in the Sky from Pink Floyd's sad epic Dark Side of the Moon. Shy, gentle and very private, Wright was proof that not every rock star feels the need to act like one. "In the welter of arguments about who or what was Pink Floyd, Rick...
...Wright taught himself how to play piano (and several other instruments) as a jazz-mad child growing up in London, and brought a sense of improvisation to the R&B group he formed with school friends Roger Waters and Nick Mason. When Syd Barrett joined in 1965, the band was renamed and redirected, matching Barrett's weirdness and whimsy with orchestral swells and experimentalism. After Barrett left the group because of mental instability and was replaced by Gilmour, the cohesiveness at the core was never quite the same. Waters seized creative control and reportedly threatened not to release...
...Wright's relationship with Gilmour was far more affectionate. The two remained friends and collaborators until the end. "Whenever Dave wants me," said Wright, "I'm really happy to play with...
...America's first black presidential nominee. Over the past 19 months, he's been attacked as a naive novice, an empty suit, a tax-and-spend liberal, an arugula-grazing élitist and a corrupt ward heeler, but the attacks that nearly derailed him involved the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, attacks designed to portray Obama as an angry black man. White America has embraced unthreatening African Americans like Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey, Will Smith and Colin Powell, but this is still a majority-white country, and Obama does not want to be stereotyped as a race man like Malcolm...
...contrast, should historians of the future ignore such brilliant works of reportage as Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower or Dexter Filkins’ masterful account of his period in Iraq—The Forever War? Indeed, I have seen first-hand how rigorously Mr. Wright, a personal friend and distinguished journalist, pursues the finest, epiphanal details that are so often ignored by professional historians. The 60 pages of footnotes and list of more than 500 individuals he interviewed for his “journalistic” work would do any historian proud...