mabewa
Wish You Were Here
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It's a pretty complicated story, and there's more than one version of it. Technically, Rick wasn't fired--more like forced out of the band. They were in debt, and Roger threatened to withhold the tapes for The Wall if Rick didn't leave. One major factor was that the record company had offered them a good financial deal if they finished the album ahead of schedule, but this meant that Rick had to forfeit his planned summer vacation in order to finish his keyboard parts early. Rick refused to go along with this. His relationship with Roger had deteriorated before then, but it seems that Roger really turned against him permanently at that point, and insisted that Rick leave the band.
Most everybody involved agrees that Rick was having trouble and that he was being difficult to work with. However, everyone involved except for Roger also agrees that Rick's being forced to leave was a big mistake--he had contributed enormously to the band's sound on all albums up to and including Animals, and without him, the band was really missing something.
Anyway, in my opinion, if PF was still PF after Rick left, then it pretty much opened the door for PF the existence of a 3-man Floyd minus one major contributing member. Of course, the next version of Floyd was indeed a 3-man Floyd minus one major contributing member... but it was Roger missing instead of Rick.
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