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Richard Wright, a founding member of Pink Floyd, died Monday at home in Britain after a battle with cancer. He was 65.

Wright's spacey, layered keyboard sounds, serene harmony and, occasionally, lead vocals were a huge part of the band's music, and he contributed integral pieces to some of Pink Floyd's biggest albums.

Wright met co-founders Roger Waters and Nick Mason in architecture school in 1965, and the three joined with Syd Barrett to form the band that evolved into the Pink Floyd Sound. Barrett was the group's dominant musical personality, but Wright was initially a close second, writing and singing several songs on Pink Floyd's early albums. Later, after David Gilmour replaced Barrett, Wright took on more of a purely instrumental role, though he co-wrote and sang on "Us and Them" from Floyd's 1973 landmark "Dark Side of the Moon."