David Gilmour Pays Tribute to Rick Wright With "Remember A Day"

Pink Floyd's David Gilmour paid tribute to late keyboardist Rick Wright last night on the BBC's Late Night With Jools Holland. Gilmour and his band performed Floyd's "Remember A Day," a track from A Saucerful of Secrets written and originally sung by Wright. Following the performance, Gilmour sat down with Holland to discuss Wright's legacy. "He was a very self-effacing but very talented, lovely chap. We're incredibly sad to have lost him," Gilmour said. Wright died last week after a brief bout with cancer. He was 65. Check out Gilmour's performance of "Remember A Day" above.

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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