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

“(We're Not) The Jet Set”

George Jones and Tammy Wynette | 1973

George Jones and Tammy Wynette were still married when they recorded the tongue-in-cheek "(We're Not) The Jet Set." The lyrics, written by Nashville songwriter Bobby Braddock, who also penned Wynette's "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" and Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today," make fun of the good life by declaring, "We're not the Jet Set/We're the old Chevrolet set." Braddock recalled that while writing the song, he needed the name of a city that evened out the rhyme he had with "Riviera" and "Missourah." “I got out a Rand McNally atlas," he said. "In the first part are the maps. The last part is an alphabetical listing of cities. I wanted a rustic, small-time sound. I went to the listing for Missouri. And I found 'Festus.' I loved the sound of it."

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