Pink Floyd founder Richard Wright died today at his home in England. He was 65.
A spokesman for the band confirmed that Wright had been battling cancer, the AP reports.
Wright met Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and Nick Mason at school and joined his friends' early band Sigma 6, which was to be the precursor to Pink Floyd.
Wright wrote and sang some of the band's most memorable songs, such as "The Great Gig in the Sky," and "Us and Them" on the 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon."
Wright left Pink Floyd in the early 1980s to form his own band. But he rejoined the band for its 1987 album "A Momentary Lapse of Reason."
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