Pink Floyd. WISH YOU WERE HERE. Original UK Pressing

	A$		143
	$		94

PINK FLOYD ''WISH YOU WERE HERE'' ORIGINAL UK PRESSING CAT NO.SVHL 814 AWESOME AUDIO THROUGHOUT! COMPLETE WITH ORIGINAL BLACK POLY COVER WITH RARE STICKER (ONLY EARLY PRESS) AND POSTCARD!! SO VERY HARD TO FIND THESE PRESSINGS LIKE THIS!!!!! (NO) NEEDLE SCRATCHES!!!!! THIS LOOKS AND SOUNDS COMPLETELY UNPLAYED!!!SO RARE TO FIND LIKE THIS!!! NEVER NEED TO UPGRADE FROM THIS ALBUM!!! TOP AUDIO!!!!

Wish You Were Here is a concept album by Pink Floyd. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios between January and July 1975 and released on September 15 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 Stones 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. Its lyrics, composed by Roger Waters and concerning the music industry, question 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 "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", and the title track itself

The Dark Side of the Moon had proved to be a phenomenal success, bringing Pink Floyd into the public spotlight, and the band's members began to worry how they could ever follow up such a masterpiece. After a brief flirtation with recording an album without using musical instruments, the band began honing three extended live songs over the next two years: "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," "You Gotta Be Crazy" and "Raving and Drooling". In the process, however, "Shine On" became too long to fit on a single side of a vinyl album and at the behest of Waters the band split it into two halves, composing new material to fit between them. Waters convinced the band to temporarily drop the other songs (a decision that guitarist David Gilmour fought against), which later became, respectively, "Dogs" and "Sheep" on the Animals album. Waters' newer compositions documented the band's current outlook (with the lyrics of the title track "Wish You Were Here" alluding to their boredom and frustration with music) and caricatured the negative aspects of the record business (on "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a Cigar").

Wish You Were Here was Pink Floyd's first album with Columbia Records, their new label for the rest of the world (in Europe they remained with EMI), which they signed with in 1973 for a reported $1 million after the success of The Dark Side of the Moon. This change in labels stemmed from the band's dissatisfaction with Capitol Records, who had under-promoted the band in America prior to Dark Side. The deal with Columbia (and its subisidiaries outside the US CBS Records and later Sony Records) gave the band complete artistic control and also ownership of their own compositions and albums from this point forward would be copyrighted to the band instead of the label.

The crafting of the album saw tensions rise within the band. Wish You Were Here would be the last Pink Floyd album to see a writing credit for keyboardist Richard Wright until The Division Bell in 1994, and essentially the last Pink Floyd album where the whole band actively contributed to the process of creation; hereafter Roger Waters was to strengthen his grip on the band's output, writing the bulk of their material. Despite these difficulties, band members Gilmour and Wright confirmed on the radio show In the Studio with Redbeard that Wish You Were Here remains their favorite Pink Floyd album.

THE VINYL

PLEASE NOTE!THIS LAYS PERFECTLY FLAT ON THE TURNTABLE! INITIAL INSPECTION THIS VINYL LOOKS SUPERBE! LOVELY AND GLOSSY WITH (NO) NEEDLE SCRATCHES OR AUDIO SOUNDING MARKS THAT I CAN SEE! ONLY UNDER STRONG LIGHT CAN ANY SLEEVE REMOVAL MARKS BE SEEN!! I HAVE PLAYED THIS VINYL THROUGH TRACK FOR TRACK AND THE AUDIO IS TRULY SUPERBE! CRISTAL CLEAR AND VIBRANT AUDIO THROUGH OUT WITH (NO) SIGNS OF GROOVEWARE OR DISTORTION! PLEASE NOTE! IT IS EASY TO BE CRITICAL ABOUT 70S PRESSINGS! PLEASE ALLOW FOR THE ODD STATIC TICKS AND VERY LIGHT CRACKLE AS THERE ARE SOME VERY QUIET PLACES DURING PLAY OF THIS ALBUM BUT THIS AUDIO IN MY OPINION WILL BE HARD TO SURPASS ON VINYL! I REALLY CRANKED UP THE VOLUME WHEN I PLAYED THIS, IT IS SUPERBE AND EXTREEMELY ENJOYABLE THROUGHOUT WITH (NO) LOUD CLICKS OR POPS CERTAINLY (NO) SKIPS!!! THE AUDIO SUPERBE!!!! THIS AUDIO GRADES AT THE VERY TOP ON ALL FREQUENCIES NEVER NEED TO UPGRADE LOOKS AND SOUNDS UNPLAYED!!!

THE LABELS

THESE ARE SUPERBE (SEE PHOTOS) (NO) SPINDLE WARE  I CAN'T SEE ANY SPIDER MARKS OR ANY INDICATIONS THAT THIS HAS BEEN PLAYED AT ALL!!! UNBELEIVABLE FOR A 32 YEAR OLD PINK FLOYED ALBUM!!!!! 

THE RECORD SLEEVE

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL TYPE PICTURE SLEEVE AS NEW CONDITION (SEE PHOTOS)

THE COVER

THIS HAS THE RARE AND ORIGINAL BLACK POLY SEAL COVER WHICH HAS BEEN OF COARSE SLIT OPEN SEE PHOTOS PLEASE NOTE! VERY HARD AND RARE TO FIND WITH THE ORIGINAL STICKER! ALTHOUGH THIS HAS A SLIT DOWN THE SIDE IT HAS NEVER LEFT THE ORIGINAL COVER ,THUS PROTECTING IT THROUGH ITS STORAGE LIFE

THE POSTCARD

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL POSTCARD IN SUPERBE CONDITION WITH A SMALL\MINUTE CREASE BOTTOM CORNER  (NORMALLY LOST) 

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