Richard Wright Was Told “Keyboards Don’t Belong in Rock — Then He Wrote the Intro That Changed Music

In 1967, record producer Rick Wright was told that keyboards had no place in rock music, yet he responded not with argument but with creative action—writing a haunting keyboard introduction that proved the producer wrong and became foundational to Pink Floyd's sonic identity, demonstrating that what appears to have no place in a genre can become, given quiet determination, the very thing that defines it.