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| Wish You Were Here | ||
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| LP, and Compact Disk single by Pink Floyd | ||
| From the album Wish You Were Here | ||
| Released | September 15 1975. | |
| Recorded | Unknown | |
| Genre | Classic Rock | |
| Length | 5 min, 40 sec (5 min, 24 sec on Echoes) | |
| Record label | Columbia Records | |
| Producer | Roger Waters, David GilmourDavid Jon Gilmour, CBE (born March 6, 1946) is the guitarist and vocalist with UK band Pink Floyd and has also released solo material and collaborated with others. Following the departure of Roger Waters in the mid-eighties, Gilmour effectively assumed co | |
| Wish You Were Here track listing | ||
| Have A Cigar (03) | Wish You Were Here (04) | Shine On You Crazy DiamondShine On You Crazy Diamond is a nine part Pink Floyd song written by Roger Waters, Richard Wright, and David Gilmour. The song can be found as the first and last tracks on the album Wish You Were Here as well as Parts I-VII as the first track on the secon (05) |
"Wish You Were Here" is the title track to Pink Floyd's 1975 album Wish You Were Here. The song encompasses the band's feelings of alienation from each other, and their own selves, as well as their disillusionment with music. Like the entire album, it also refers to some extent to former Pink Floyd member Syd BarrettRoger Keith Barrett (born January 6, 1946 in Cambridge, England), known as Syd was one of the founder members of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Pink Floyd. He was originally the lead singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter for the band, chiefly on t.
The song segues from "Have A Cigar" as the former song disappears as if a radio has been tuned away from one station, through several others, and finally to a new station where "Wish You Were Here" is beginning. David GilmourDavid Jon Gilmour, CBE (born March 6, 1946) is the guitarist and vocalist with UK band Pink Floyd and has also released solo material and collaborated with others. Following the departure of Roger Waters in the mid-eighties, Gilmour effectively assumed co and Roger Waters bring the song in on processed twelve-string guitarnylon strings. steel strings and more guide dots on the fretboard. A guitar is a stringed musical instrument played with the fingers or a plectrum ( guitar pick). The sound is produced by vibrating strings. Guitars have a body (which is hollow for acoustis, leading into an acoustic guitar solo part by Gilmour. It continues with a riff that is repeated a few times throughout the song. Gilmour plays a short solo in the middle. At the end, the song tails off to a wind sound effect (reminiscent of the one at the end of "One of These Days" on their 1971 album Meddle), as it transitions to the second section of the multi-part suite " Shine On You Crazy Diamond".
The song later appeared as the 10th track on disk 2 of the compilation CD Echoes, with the radio tune intro seguing from the end of "Arnold Layne", and its end it seguing to "Jugband Blues".
During the opening solo, in the 26th second, a small cough can be heard.