Wish You Were Here (w/ Book)(Experience Edition) CD

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Song Listing

Disc 1

Song Title

1. Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 1-5 ~ Pink Floyd

2. Welcome to the Machine ~ Pink Floyd

3. Have a Cigar ~ Pink Floyd

4. Wish You Were Here ~ Pink Floyd

5. Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 6-9 ~ Pink Floyd

Disc 2

Song Title

1. Shine on You Crazy Diamond [Live At Wembley 1974] - (previously unreleased, live) ~ Pink Floyd

2. Raving and Drooling [Live at Wembley 1974] - (previously unreleased, live) ~ Pink Floyd

3. You've Got to Be Crazy [Live at Wembley 1974] - (previously unreleased, live) ~ Pink Floyd

4. Wine Glasses [From "Household Objects" Project] - (previously unreleased) ~ Pink Floyd

5. Have a Cigar [Alternate Version] - (previously unreleased) ~ Pink Floyd

6. Wish You Were Here - (previously unreleased, featuring St?phane Grappelli) ~ Pink Floyd

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	Pink Floyd: David Gilmour (vocals, guitar); Richard Wright (vocals, keyboards, VCS3 syntheszier); Roger Waters (vocals, bass); Nick Mason (drums).
	Additional personnel: Roy Harper (vocals); Dick Parry (saxophone); Venetta Fields, Carlena Williams (background vocals).

	Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, England from January-July 1975.
	Digitally remastered by Doug Sax (The Mastering Lab, Los Angeles, California).
	Lyricist: Roger Waters.
	Personnel: David Gilmour (vocals, guitar); Richard Wright (vocals, piano, keyboards); Roger Waters (vocals, bass guitar); Nick Mason (drums); Venetta Fields, Carlena Williams (background vocals).
	Audio Mixers: Damon Iddins; Andy Jackson.
	Recording information: Abbey Road Studios, London (01/1974-07/1975); The Empire Pool, Wembley, London (01/1974-07/1975); Abbey Road Studios, London (01/1975-07/1975); The Empire Pool, Wembley, London (01/1975-07/1975); Abbey Road Studios, London (11/1974); The Empire Pool, Wembley, London (11/1974).
	The breakthrough success of Dark Side of the Moon made Wish You Were Here a crucial follow-up in strictly commercial terms. Further pressure came from it being Pink Floyd's first recording for a new label, Columbia. Yet the demands on the band only provided Roger Waters more fodder for his lyrics, which glanced at the band's roots as well as their new responsibilities. The mechanized throb of a VCS3 synthesizer, fed through a repeat-echo unit, signals the opening bars of "Welcome to the Machine," a diatribe against an industry more concerned with money than creative music-making. "Have a Cigar" further establishes Waters' contempt by bringing in singer Roy Harper to play the role of a "faceless suit," who none-too-innocently asks, "Which one's Pink?" The remaining songs indirectly look back to the first casualty of Pink Floyd's growing fame, the group's founder, Syd Barrett. The 20-minute-plus "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" has its roots in earlier pieces like "Atom Heart Mother Suite" and "Echoes." But rather than just another Floydian soundscape, its lyrics make it a paean to Barrett's genius and a requiem for his subsequent breakdown. The first five of the song's nine movements open the album with sax player Dick Parry wailing as effectively as he did on Dark Side of the Moon. The final four sections, which close the album, form a reprise that starts with the sound of wind and David Gilmour's guitar screaming and crying. The band then settles into a laid-back jam that ends with Richard Wright's billowing synth delicately fading out. The title track deals also with Barrett, as well as the tension the idealist Waters was feeling in battling the greed that surrounded the band's success. The themes of disillusionment planted throughout Wish You Were Here would eventually sprout full-blown on The Wall.
Producer: Pink Floyd
Engineer: Brian Humphries
Musical Guests
	Roy Harper
	Stephane Grappelli

Compilation Appearances

Ultra Dance 8

Associated Artists and Works

	Easy Star All-Stars
	London Philharmonic Orchestra
	On, Pickin'
	Original Soundtrack
	Out Of Phase (Rock)
	Out of Phase (Rock)
	Phase, Out Of
	Phase, Out Of (Rock)
	Pickin' On
	Prydz, Eric
	Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
	Vitamin String Quartet

Technical Info

	Release Date : 11/07/2011
	Original Release Date : 1975
	Catalog ID : 029450
	Label : EMI Music Distribution
	Number of Discs : 2
	Studio/Live : Studio
	Mono/Stereo : Stereo
	SPAR Code : n/a
	UPC : 05099902945026

Professional Reviews

Q (6/00, p.72)
- Ranked #43 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "Stuck with the impossible task of following DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, Pink Floyd did it with panache....'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' is the mellifluous rock-gospel opener, but there's weirder stuff here..."

Q (Magazine)
(p.120)
- "[The music] has a magnificently ethereal quality, with David Gilmour's guitar and Rick Wright's keyboards sounding like meteorites gently pinging around some far-off galaxy."

Record Collector (magazine)
(p.87)
- 5 stars out of 5 -- "WISH YOU WERE HERE remains the classic mid-period Floyd album that still partially clung to their MEDDLE template; but two of the album's four songs revealed the bleakness that would be part of Floyd's new vision."

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