{"id":5150,"date":"2025-09-12T13:51:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/pink-floyd-wish-you-were-here-reissue\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T13:51:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:51:22","slug":"pink-floyd-wish-you-were-here-reissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/pink-floyd-wish-you-were-here-reissue\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Floyd Look Back On \u2018Wish You Were Here\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/09\/Pink-Floyd-WYWH50-Credit-Storm-Thorgerson-Sony-Music-Entertainment.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"867\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Pink Floyd are expanding their 1975 album <em>Wish You Were Here<\/em> for a <a href=\"https:\/\/pinkfloyd.lnk.to\/WYWH_50\" target=\"_blank\">50th anniversary deluxe edition<\/a> due Dec. 12 from Sony Music. The collection is led by six previously unreleased alternate versions and 16 live recordings sourced from a bootleg of an April 26, 1975, concert at Los Angeles Sports Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The first song to emerge from the set is \u201cThe Machine Song (Demo #2, Revisited),\u201d which eventually morphed into the <em>Wish You Were Here<\/em> track \u201cWelcome to the Machine.\u201d Group member Roger Waters\u2019 separate demo of the song is also included, as are an instrumental mix of the title song and the first complete \u201cShine on You Crazy Diamond\u201d with all nine of its parts, remixed in stereo by James Guthrie.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/09\/5-albums-i-cant-live-without-sean-griffin-of-the-ruffians\/\">5 Albums I Can\u2019t Live Without: Se\u00e1n Griffin of the Ruffians<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/09\/lcd-soundystem-new-york-residency\/\">LCD Soundystem Ready Annual NYC Residency<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/09\/deep-cut-friday-its-a-jungle-out-there-by-harry-nilsson\/\">Deep Cut Friday: \u2018It\u2019s a Jungle Out There\u2019 by Harry Nilsson<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Blu-ray content includes three concert screen films from the aforementioned 1975 tour and a short film by longtime Hipgnosis art director Storm Thorgerson, while the deluxe box boasts a clear vinyl LP edition of <em>Live at Wembley 1974<\/em> and a replica Japanese seven-inch vinyl single of \u201cHave a Cigar\u201d b\/w \u201cWelcome to the Machine.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"cY3rPlOsATc\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Wish You Were Here<\/em> was the follow-up to 1973\u2019s legendary <em>Dark Side of the Moon<\/em>, which turned Pink Floyd into reluctant rock superstars. Group members funneled their conflicting emotions about success into the new music, including \u201cShine on You Crazy Diamond,\u201d which was partially written in tribute to long-departed vocalist Syd Barrett. The mentally fragile Barrett showed up unexpectedly during the recording sessions after rarely engaging with his old bandmates following his 1968 exit, and his appearance had changed so much that they initially didn\u2019t recognize him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Shine On\u2019 is not really about Syd \u2014 he\u2019s just a symbol for all the extremes of absence some people have to indulge in because it\u2019s the only way they can cope with how fucking sad it is, modern life, to withdraw completely,\u201d Waters later said of the encounter. \u201cI found that terribly sad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Wish You Were Here<\/em> is further revered for its cover art, which depicts two men shaking hands while one of them is on fire. Recalls Hipgnosis\u2019 Aubrey \u201cPo\u201d Powell, \u201cI remember turning around to Storm and saying, how are we going to set a man on fire? Because there was no digital way of doing it in those days. He said, Po, you\u2019re just going to have to do it for real. That was it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne has to remember that Pink Floyd were the only band on EMI and Capitol Records who had the rights to the creative \u2014 in terms of album cover \u2014 besides the Beatles,\u201d he continues. \u201cThat\u2019s why we were allowed to do what we wanted. It was brilliant. Just the same way that Pink Floyd were a very inventive band at the time, so were Hipgnosis. We were determined to keep that abstract, enigmatic image alive and hence, we were able to do that for Pink Floyd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Floyd are expanding their 1975 album Wish You Were Here for a 50th anniversary deluxe edition due Dec. 12 from Sony Music. The collection is led by six previously&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3090,24,3740],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pink-floyd","category-pushly","category-syd-barrett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}