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"Wish You Were Here" is a song by English rock band Pink Floyd, released as the title track of their 1975 album of the same name. [2] [3] Guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour and bassist/vocalist Roger Waters collaborated in writing the music, with Gilmour singing lead vocals.
Rock icon David Gilmour of Pink Floyd cleared the air on a persistent online myth about one of the band’s best-known songs, “Wish You Were Here.”. The 1975 track begins with a radio and some ...
Wish You Were Here was voted number one. [78] In 2004, Wish You Were Here was ranked number 36 on the Pitchfork list of the Top 100 albums of the 1970s. [79] IGN rated Wish You Were Here as the eighth-greatest classic rock album, [80] and Ultimate Classic Rock placed Wish You Were Here as the second-best Pink Floyd album. [81]
"Have a Cigar" is the third track on Pink Floyd's 1975 album Wish You Were Here. [8] [9] It follows "Welcome to the Machine" and on the original LP opened side two.In some markets, the song was issued as a single.
The Story of Wish You Were Here is a television documentary about the making of Pink Floyd's 1975 album Wish You Were Here. After being shown on a few television channels, such as BBC Four, [1] it was released on 26 June 2012, on DVD and Blu-ray. The film gives an extensive insight of concept, recording the songs and designing the album cover.
David Gilmour's quotes on the recording process, taken from the Wish You Were Here songbook. [5] The only time we've ever used tape speed to help us with vocals was on one line of the Machine song. It was a line I just couldn't reach so we dropped the tape down half a semitone and then dropped the line in on the track.
"Wish That You Were Here" is a song by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine written by Florence Welch, Andrew Wyatt, and Emile Haynie. It was released by Island Records on 26 August 2016.
The album was dedicated to Andy and the song "Wish You Were Here" was written as a tribute to him. The album was co-produced with Brian Tench, who had worked with them on the previous album. Related session outtake "Shape of Things to Come" was written for the Bee Gees' contribution to the 1988 Olympics album called One Moment in Time released ...