Wish You Were Here (album)

Wish You Were Here is a album by Pink Floyd, that appeared in 1975 . It is one of the most successful albums of the group.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == After the success of the previous album Dark Side of the Moon , the band had to come up with a sequel. The basic material for this new album got through live performances form. The following numbers would come on the album: "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," "You Gotta Be Crazy" and "Raving and Drooling". However during the creation process was "Shine On" too long for a single side of an LP album (lp) and had to be split into two parts.
 * 2 Characteristics
 * 3 Receipt
 * 4 Numbers
 * Occupation 5
 * 6 Technicians and designers
 * 7 Trivia
 * 8 chart positions
 * Dutch Album Top 100 8.1
 * 8.2 Flemish Ultratop 100 Albums
 * 8.2.1 Wish you were here
 * 8.2.2 Wish you were here-Experience edition
 * 9 external links

Roger Waters convinced the rest of the band that they had to delete the other two numbers. [source? ] These two would two years later on the album be released Animals , under the titles "Dogs" and "Sheep". Between the two "Shine On"-parts were made by Waters three new compositions. These refer to the circumstances of and around the band at the time. "Wish You Were Here" is about the verveeldheid and frustration of music, and "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a Cigar" are caricatures of the negative aspects of the music industry.

Because Roger Waters didn't trust his own vocal arts[citation needed] , Roy Harper was asked to Have A Cigar in to sing. Harper was a label-mate (Harvest) of the Floyd and was working on his album two doors further to include H.Q. .

During the recording of Wish You Were Here on the tensions between the band members started to run. This album is also the last album on which Richard Wright got credits for co-writing the result. Roger Waters at the next albums would increasingly determine the output of the band. ==Characteristics[ Edit] == The album is dedicated to Syd Barrett, who had previously left the band due to excessive drug use was set. The name of Syd Barrett is also reflected in the title of the album's longest track: (S) hine on (y) ou iamond (d) crazy.<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="312" style="line-height:1;"> [source? ] During the final mix of Shine on... came a big bald man impressed and within that a confused initially by no one recognized for his Hare Krishna-appearance. It was Syd Barrett, to whom the plate actually was dedicated. The band members had not seen Barrett over about four years and then saw him anymore.

<p len="513" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">All the tracks blend together. The LP was originally packaged in a cardboard sleeve which in turn was packed in black shrink wrap. Useful for removing the shrink wrap covers the actual was visible, with a photo of the two men shaking hands while the rechterman is on fire. The shrink film was later omitted. ==Receipt<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p len="410" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The album was a huge commercial success. The outcome in the second week after obtained the first place in the English album lists. In 1970, five years earlier, was the number-one position for Atom Heart Mother. ==Numbers<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Occupation<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Technicians and designers<span class="mw-editsection" len="355" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Chart Positions<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Dutch Album Top 100<span class="mw-editsection" len="358" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Flemish Ultratop 100 Albums<span class="mw-editsection" len="361" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="153" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the Flemish Ultratop 100 Album list were the markings of the original album from 1975 and the "Experience edition" from 2011 not cumulative. ====Wish you were here<span class="mw-editsection" len="352" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ====Wish you were here-Experience edition<span class="mw-editsection" len="373" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ====
 * David Gilmour – vocals, guitar, lap steel guitar, EMS Synthi AKS, additional bass guitar, additional keyboards, tape effects.
 * Roger Waters – vocals, bass guitar, additional guitar, VCS3, tape effects.
 * Richard Wright – keyboards, VCS3, backing vocals
 * Nick Mason – drums, percussion, tape effects
 * Roy Harper – vocals on "Have a Cigar"
 * Dick Parry – saxophone on "Shine on You Crazy Diamond"
 * Michael Bufando - saxophone on "Shine on You Crazy Diamond"
 * Venetta Fields – background vocals on "Shine on You Crazy Diamond"
 * Carlena Williams – background vocals on "Shine on You Crazy Diamond"
 * Stéphane Grappelli – violin on "Wish You Were Here" (almost do not hear on final mix)
 * Brian Humphries – sound engineer
 * Peter Christopherson – Assistant Designer (see Hipgnosis)
 * Peter James – engineer, Assistant Engineer
 * Hipgnosis – design, photography
 * Storm Thorgerson – re-design
 * Phil Taylor – additional photography (remaster)
 * Jill Furmanovsky – additional photography (remaster)
 * George Hardie – illustrations
 * Richard Manning – Assistant Designer
 * Howard Bartrop – Assistant Designer
 * Jeff Smith – Assistant Designer
 * James Guthrie – Remasteringproducer
 * Doug Sax – Remastering
 * Gerald Scarfe – "Welcome to the Machine"-music video
 * In the last seconds of the album Wright plays the chorus of their old song "See Emily Play".
 * The four notes played at the beginning of "Shine On" come in all songs back.
 * The phrase "Oh by the way, which one's Pink?" from "Have a Cigar" is not made up. The question was once asked by an American record vouchers.