When Rick Wright Got Fired Over a Keyboard Part on 'Comfortably Numb'

The specific blowup over “Comfortably Numb” wasn’t really about the song’s structure or sound — it was about a single keyboard line. Roger Waters watched Rick Wright play a part he considered lazy, maybe even bored. Waters stopped the session and told Wright to come up with something better. Wright refused, saying it was fine. That refusal became the last straw.

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