Earlier this week Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright, 65, sadly passed away following a battle with cancer. I love Pink Floyd. To me Dark Side Of The Moon is not only one of the greatest albums ever made, it is the first album EVER that I remember spinning non-stop, continuously, all the way through, from start to finish as a very hyper-active kid. It mellowed me out better than a dose of Ritalin or hit from the peace pipe. Eventually the Pink Floyd CD collection grew. I remember buying Works for $5. I only bought it because it was so cheap, figuring it was one of those "weird" Pink Floyd albums, like Ummagumma. Shit! That album, a sort of weird compilation, ended up being the best $5 I ever spent! The intergalactic space odyssey that is "One Of These Days" into the old school "Arnold Layne," one of the band’s earliest tracks, and the chiller "Fearless," all quickly became my mix-tape staples.
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