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18:06 GMT, Monday, 15 September 2008 19:06 UK

In pictures: Richard Wright

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Pink Floyd founder and keyboard player Richard Wright has died from cancer aged 65.

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Wright met Roger Waters (top left) and Nick Mason (bottom left) at architecture school.

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Pink Floyd achieved legendary status with albums including 1973's The Dark Side Of The Moon, which stayed in the US album chart for more than a decade.

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After Waters left the band in 1981, Wright, Gilmour and Mason continued to record and tour during the remainder of the 1980s and into the 1990s.

Richard Wright

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The self-taught keyboard player wrote the songs The Great Gig In The Sky and Us And Them.

Pink Floyd

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In 2005 the full band reunited for the first time on stage in 24 years for the Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park.

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