PINK FLOYD..WISH YOU WERE HERE..FACTORY SEALED.PROMO.

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PINK FLOYD..WISH YOU WERE HERE..FACTORY SEALED.PROMO.!

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WISH YOU WERE HERE

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HALF SPEED MASTERED EXTENDED RANGE RECORDING

FROM 1975

Wish You Were Here is a concept album by Pink Floyd. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios between January and July 1975 and released on 15 September 1975 (see 1975 in music), the album would later be regarded as one of Pink Floyd's greatest albums and was ranked 209 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. Its lyrics, written by Roger Waters, concerned the music industry, and questioned the market-oriented record companies' lack of understanding and interest for musicians. The album also pays tribute to Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd's former guitarist and chief songwriter, especially with "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and the title track itself. The album sold 10 million copies worldwide According to the 1991 Nicholas Schaffner Pink Floyd biography Saucerful of Secrets : The Pink Floyd Odyssey, Wish You Were Here was Pink Floyd's first album with Columbia Records in the US and Canada and its distributor CBS Records for the world outside of Europe. In Europe, the band remained with EMI under the Harvest imprint. The switch in labels, also according to drummer Nick Mason's book Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd stemmed from the lack of promotion that EMI gave the band outside Europe, especially Capitol Records in the US and Canada. As a result in the label switch, this gave the band ownership of their recordings from that point forward - every album from Wish You Were Here onward has been copyrighted to either Pink Floyd Music Limited or (for after Roger Waters' departure) Pink Floyd (1987) Ltd., instead of the corresponding record label. Also according to the book Saucerful of Secrets : The Pink Floyd Odyssey (and stated on the In the Studio with Redbeard episode of Wish You Were Here), Pink Floyd entered London's Abbey Road Studios during the first week of 1975 to begin work on their long anticipated follow-up album to their hugely successful album The Dark Side of the Moon. Although the band had three pieces of music already sketched out to be recorded ("Raving and Drooling" which later became "Sheep", "You Gotta Be Crazy" which later became "Dogs" and the centerpiece "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"), all was not well within the band. The overwhelming critical, commercial and financial success of Dark Side of the Moon had left the band physically and emotionally drained and the band spent the first few weeks just sitting around. When the band did get around to recording, their bodies went through the motions while their minds and feelings were elsewhere. The initial plan was to record the three tracks they had played live on their 1974 European tour (which were "Raving and Drooling", "You Gotta Be Crazy" and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"), but bass player/singer/lyricist Roger Waters decided to change the vision of the album, split the two halves of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and write three shorter songs relating to the theme of absence, two of which ("Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a Cigar") were veiled attacks on the music business and the other (the title cut) was, like "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", about fallen Floyd member Syd Barrett. This move was, according to the Saucerful of Secrets book and in drummer Nick Mason's book Inside Out, one of the first debates between Waters and singer/guitarist David Gilmour. Gilmour wanted to record what the band had been playing live while Waters wanted to split "Shine On..." into two halves and create a concept album. Gilmour was outvoted three to one. Despite this disagreement, plus the hardships that occurred during the recording, Gilmour and keyboard player Rick Wright revealed in 1995, on the radio show In the Studio with Redbeard (which devoted an entire episode to the making of the album) that Wish You Were Here is their favorite Pink Floyd album. The recording took over seven months with two breaks in between recording for two U.S. tours, one in April 1975 and the other in June 1975, where they premiered the multi-part "Shine On..." suite with "Have a Cigar" bridging the two halves Track listing All lyrics written by Roger Waters. Side one # Title Music Length 1. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)" David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright 13:31 2. "Welcome to the Machine" Waters 7:30 Side two # Title Music Length 1. "Have A Cigar" Waters 5:08 2. "Wish You Were Here" Gilmour, Waters 5:26 3. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX)" Gilmour, Waters, Wright 12:28 Singles