{"id":660378,"date":"2026-05-23T11:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660378\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T11:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:53:16","slug":"dick-parry-saxophonist-on-pink-floyd-classics-dead-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660378\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Parry, Saxophonist on Pink Floyd Classics, Dead at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime friend of David Gilmour played on band\u2019s \u201cShine On You Crazy Diamond,\u201d \u201cWish You Were Here,\u201d \u201cUs and Them,\u201d and \u201cMoney,\u201d and often joined the group on tour<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dick-parry\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dick-parry\" data-tag=\"dick-parry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Parry<\/a>, the saxophonist who performed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/pink-floyd\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pink-floyd\" data-tag=\"pink-floyd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pink Floyd<\/a> classics like \u201cMoney\u201d and \u201cShine On You Crazy Diamond,\u201d has died at the age of 83.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tParry\u2019s death was announced Friday on social media by Pink Floyd guitarist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/david-gilmour\/\" id=\"auto-tag_david-gilmour\" data-tag=\"david-gilmour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Gilmour<\/a>; no cause of death was provided.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My dear friend Dick Parry died this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Since I was seventeen, I have played in bands with Dick on saxophone, including Pink Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>His feel and tone make his saxophone playing unmistakable, a signature of enormous beauty that is known to millions and is such a big part of\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nuz9UCSz1n\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/nuz9UCSz1n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Gilmour (@davidgilmour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidgilmour\/status\/2057899099731726550?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cMy dear friend Dick Parry died this morning. Since I was seventeen, I have played in bands with Dick on saxophone, including Pink Floyd,\u201d Gilmour wrote.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cHis feel and tone make his saxophone playing unmistakable, a signature of enormous beauty that is known to millions and is such a big part of songs such as \u2018Shine On You Crazy Diamond,\u2019 \u2018Wish You Were Here,\u2019 \u2018Us and Them\u2019 and \u2018Money.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn addition to recording with Pink Floyd in the studio, Parry was a mainstay at the band\u2019s concerts in the mid-Seventies. Nearly 20 years after Wish You Were Here, Parry reunited with the now-Gilmour-led Pink Floyd for 1994\u2019s The Division Bell, performing on \u201cWearing the Inside Out.\u201d Parry also accompanied Pink Floyd on the tour in support of The Division Bell, as documented on the live album Pulse.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cHe played in the last band I had that included Rick Wright for the On an Island Tour and at Live 8 with Pink Floyd,\u201d Gilmour added of Parry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn addition to his tenure with Pink Floyd, Parry also recorded with artists like the Who\u2019s John Entwistle, Rory Gallagher, and Lightnin\u2019 Slim.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longtime friend of David Gilmour played on band\u2019s \u201cShine On You Crazy Diamond,\u201d \u201cWish You Were Here,\u201d \u201cUs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[123966,289061,88,216,45482,13441,61771],"class_list":["post-660378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-david-gilmour","tag-dick-parry","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-obit","tag-obituary","tag-pink-floyd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}