How do you follow one of the best regarded and biggest selling albums of all time? With another one. After the swift and monumental success of The Dark Side Of The Moon , Pink Floyd were finally able to take a break from the relentless touring and recording they had had to undertake since Still, by providing a focus for the album and very quickly creating the new songs, Waters deserves much credit for keeping the recording on track. His full contribution is available on a mix of the track on the expanded editions of Wish You Were Here, available from November The lavish artwork for the album package was once again created by the Hipgnosis team, who created a series of tableaux based on absence and, as.

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Release date: 12th September 1975
The album's themes include criticism of the music business , alienation, and a tribute to founding member Syd Barrett , who left seven years earlier with deteriorating mental health. Wish You Were Here received mixed reviews from critics on its release, who found its music uninspiring and inferior to their previous work. It has retrospectively received critical acclaim, hailed as one of the greatest albums of all time, and was cited by keyboardist Richard Wright and guitarist David Gilmour as their favourite Pink Floyd album.
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It was released as the title track of their album Wish You Were Here. In , the song was ranked No. In the original album version, the song segues from " Have a Cigar " as if a radio had been tuned away from one station, through several others including a radio play and one playing the opening of the finale movement of Tchaikovsky 's Fourth Symphony , and finally to a new station where "Wish You Were Here" is beginning. He performed the intro on a twelve-string guitar , processed to sound like it was playing through an AM radio, and then overdubbed a fuller-sounding acoustic guitar solo. This passage was mixed to sound as though a guitarist were listening to the radio and playing along. As the acoustic part becomes more complex, the 'radio broadcast' fades away and Gilmour's voice enters, while the rest of the band joins in. The intro riff is repeated several times before Gilmour plays further solos with scat singing accompaniment.
See the full list. Title: Wish You Were Here A forest ranger is haunted by the disappearance of his four-year-old daughter, and the subsequent breakup of his marriage. He discovers his ex-wife Ana is pregnant to the policeman in charge of his missing daughter's case. When a young soldier in Vietnam gets dumped by his hometown girl, he and his best friend decide to go AWOL and return to the States to win her back. Just when Joseph thought that he'd never find love, the quirky girl, Claire, proves him wrong. Lovers struggle to overcome the everyday temptations of an ordinary human life; what they discover is somewhat extraordinary. When career criminal Wolfgang West gets put away for four years, his wife Cheryl decides it's time for her family to go straight. But can the Wests change the habits of a lifetime? In rural Indiana, Noah and his impoverished family wrestle with the mysterious return of his now mute sister Lauren, who was kidnapped and held captive for over a decade.