Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd song)
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| Song by Pink Floyd from the album Wish You Were Here | |
| Released | 12 September 1975 (album) |
| Recorded | January–July 1975 |
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| Released | 20 July 1995 | |||
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| Recorded | 20 September (Cinecittà, Rome), 1994 | |||
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| from the album The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book | ||||
| B-side | "No Woman, No Cry" | |||
| Released | 3 December 2001 | |||
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| Length | 4:06 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
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"Wish You Were Here" is the title track on Pink Floyd's 1975 album Wish You Were Here. Like most of the album, it refers to former Pink Floyd member Syd Barrett and his breakdown. David Gilmour and Roger Waters collaborated to write the music, and Gilmour sang the lead vocal. On June 14, 2013, the song was released as an unofficial promotional single on Spotify, and when fans streamed it one million times, which happened after only four days, the rest of the band's catalogue was released.
In 2011, the song was ranked No. 324 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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. The radio was recorded from Gilmour's car radio. 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, becoming joined by the full band.
The intro riff is repeated several times, before Gilmour plays further solos with scat singing accompaniment. A third verse follows, featuring an increasingly expressive vocal from Gilmour and audible backing vocals. At the end of the recorded song, the final solo crossfades with wind sound effects, and finally segues into the second section of the multi-part suite "Shine On You Crazy Diamond".
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