Rick Wright Tribute - 7 pieces medley - "The Great RICK In The Sky" - adapt/perf. Giorgio Rizzarelli

THE GREAT RICK IN THE SKY - MEDLEY OF 7 PIECES - A PIANO TRIBUTE TO RICHARD WRIGHT OF PINK FLOYD

Assembled, transcribed/adapted for solo piano, live performed, introduced, directed and post-produced by Giorgio Rizzarelli - http://youtube.com/urbania70 . Realized between September 15 and October 23, 2008.


The Pink Floyd keyboardist and founder member Richard Wright passed away on September 15th, 2008. The other members describe him as the most reserved and modest. Actually, though his jazz abilities, he invented an essential style. Besides playing keyboards, Wright gave important contributions as a writer (and sometimes as a vocalist), some of which are remembered in this piano cover medley.

Richard Wright died at 65 and, as he had kept privacy about his illness, these news came suddenly. It's sad to know that, if another reunion will be done (after the one at Live8), he will not join it. As many keyboardists, I learned from his style.

TRACKLIST

The Great Gig In The Sky (Wr, Torry)
Breathe (G, Wa, Wr)
Echoes (M, G, Wa, Wr)
Time (G, Wa, Wr, M)
Us And Them (Wa, Wr)
Cluster One (G, Wr) (b)
Wearing The Inside Out (Wr, Moore)

G=Gilmour, M=Mason, Wa=Waters, Wr=Wright
Wright performs lead vocals on Meddle (with Gilmour), Wearing The Inside Out, the Time bridge.
All excerpts are from "The Dark Side Of The Moon" except the last two which are from "The Division Bell", and "Echoes" which is from "Meddle".

By choice I performed "The Great Gig In The Sky" faithfully to the album, though Wright did it live more freely. The superimposed text is spoken in the original version; by the way one of the song working titles was "The Mortality Sequence".
"Wearing The Inside Out" features a free interpretation as part of my personal tribute.
"Shine on You Crazy Diamond" (also co-written by Wright) is quoted briefly (at the end) to avoid too much slow music, stay in the 10mins available, and... well, that's rather for Syd.

A big thank you to:
- AlecLovesGenialMusic for special moral support, technical support, tracklist revising, sharing and linking on various PF forums
- danbergam special technical support, sharing
- Pino (leader of Lab70, one of the first Italian Floydian bands) for tracklist revising
- albetazza1985, milaraven and joeneil69 for sharing

Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wright for special words by all other surviving PF members.

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FAIR USE NOTICE: This video is meant as "fair use" according to the copyright laws: although it contains material of which I'm not the copyright owner, this is a no-profit respectful fan homage, and a partially original interpretation. You may not make any profit from it, and I'm not responsible about any improper use of this video by anyone else.
I believe that this simplified solo-piano interpretation doesn't damage the author and copyright owner but, oppositely, that it spreads the word about them.
Please don't ask me for the sheet of the album Dark Side of the Moon (including The Great Gig in the Sky) - you can buy online the official sheet.

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[CTruth2011]

Awesome. I wish I could play a piano like that....

[urbania70]

@CTruth2011 Thanx

[otherdog59]

outstanding! Thank you very much indeed!

[urbania70]

@otherdog59 Thanx

[TylerDz1701]

@urbania70

That was amazing. Rick Wright will never be dead, as every time we play his beautiful compositions, he will live in the hearts of every fan of classic and progressive rock. I especially liked it when you played Echoes and Cluster One

[urbania70]

@TylerDz1701 Thank you very much again. Indeed. I'm glad you liked my Cluster One version, it's a very particular and essential piece. About Echoes, probably I played it too fast.

[TheZeplinfan]

very nice !!!



[TheZeplinfan]

i can play this !!!

[advokat24h]

Amazing... almost crying...

Fabio

[xtrabass]

3 dislikes?!? WTF?!? Who could seriously not like this? Must be Justin Bieber fans...