Wish You Were Here (album)

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

Content
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 * 1 History
 * 2 Features
 * 3 Reception
 * 4 Songs
 * 5 Occupation
 * 6 engineers and designers
 * 7 Trivia
 * 8 Hitnoteringen
 * 8.1 Dutch Album Top 100
 * 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

History [ edit ]
After the success of the previous album The Dark Side of the Moon had to bond with a sequel. The basic material for the new album got through live performances form.The following numbers would be on the album, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," "You Gotta Be Crazy" and "Raving and Drooling". However, during the creation was "Shine On" too long for a single side of an LP ( LP ) and had to be split into two parts.

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 Animals still be released 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 that time. "Wish You Were Here" is about the boredom and frustration of music, and "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a Cigar" caricatures of the negative aspects of the music industry.

Roger Waters because his singing skills not trust [source?], was Roy Harper asked to sing in Have A Cigar. Harper was a label mate (Harvest) by Floyd and was two doors down busy recording his album HQ.

During the recording of Wish You Were Here began to walk on the tensions between the band members. This album is also provisionally the last album which Richard Wright credits received for co-writing the result. Roger Waters would be at the next albums increasingly will determine the output of the band.

Features [ edit ]
The album is dedicated to Syd Barrett, who had put earlier for excessive drug use from the band. The name of Syd Barrett is also reflected in the title of the longest track on this album: (S). Hine on (y) ou crazy (d) iamond [? src] During the final mix of Shine on ... came a thick bald man inside who made ​​a confused impression and initially no one was recognized for his Hare Krishna -Appearance. It was Syd Barrett, whom the board noted, was dedicated. The band members had Barrett over four years have not seen and saw below him anymore.

All the tracks run into each other. The LP was initially packed in a cardboard sleeve which in turn was packed in black shrink film . Only when removing the shrink wrap the actual cover was visible, with a picture of two men shaking hands while the right erman fire. The shrink wrap was later omitted.

Reception [ edit ]
The album was a huge commercial success. The achieved results in the second week after the first English album charts. In 1970, five years earlier, the number 1 position was reserved for Atom Heart Mother .

Occupation [ edit ]

 * David Gilmour - vocals, guitar, lap steel guitar , EMS Synthi AKS, additional bass , additional keyboards , tape effects.
 * Roger Waters - vocals, bass, 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" (hard to hear the final mix)

[Technicians and designers edit ]

 * Brian Humphries - sound engineer
 * Peter Christopherson - assistant designer (see Hipgnosis )
 * Peter James - sound engineer, assistant sound 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 - remastering -producer
 * Doug Sax - remastering
 * Gerald Scarfe - "Welcome to the Machine" -muziekvideo

[Trivia Edit ]

 * In the final seconds of the album Wright plays the chorus of their old song "See Emily Play".
 * The four notes are played at the beginning of "Shine On" come in all the numbers 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.

Flemish Ultratop 100 albums [ edit ]
In the Flemish Ultratop 100 Album list were the markings of the original album from 1975 and the "Experience Edition" from 2011 is not added together.