{"id":59898,"date":"2025-09-12T16:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/59898\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T16:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:55:10","slug":"pink-floyd-announce-wish-you-were-here-50th-anniversary-reissue-share-welcome-to-the-machine-demo-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/59898\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Floyd Announce Wish You Were Here 50th Anniversary Reissue, Share \u201cWelcome to the Machine\u201d Demo: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pink Floyd<\/a> are reissuing their classic 1975 album, Wish You Were Here<\/a>, for its 50th anniversary. Wish You Were Here 50<\/a> is out December 12 via Sony Music Entertainment<\/a>. The expanded edition will be available in 3xLP and 2xCD formats featuring alternate mixes and demos, or as a box set that also includes a fourth LP of live material recorded at Wembley Stadium and a Blu-ray that gathers three concert films from Pink Floyd\u2019s 1975 tour and a short film by graphic designer Storm Thorgerson<\/a>. Listen to \u201cThe Machine Song (Demo #2, Revisited),\u201d a demo of \u201cWelcome to the Machine,\u201d below.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the 1970s, album covers were equally as important as the music, because the cover helped to sell the record,\u201d Aubrey Powell, who co-founded the UK design collective Hipgnosis and designed the Wish You Were Here cover alongside Thorgerson, said in a statement. \u201cRecord stores would carry 10,000 different images in album sleeves, so what we were doing had to look different and stand out amongst the crowd. I remember turning around to Storm and saying, \u2018How are we going to set a man on fire?\u2019 Because there was no digital way of doing it in those days. He said, \u2018Po, you\u2019re just going to have to do it for real.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Wish You Were Here was in large part a tribute to Syd Barrett<\/a>, Pink Floyd\u2019s co-founder and original vocalist, who had left the band seven years prior due to his deteriorating mental health. Roger Waters<\/a> and David Gilmour<\/a> shared lead vocals on the album. Waters handled both halves of the 25-minute epic \u201cShine On You Crazy Diamond\u201d while Gilmour sang \u201cWelcome to the Machine\u201d and \u201cWish You Were Here.\u201d \u201cHave a Cigar\u201d was an exception: The band recruited folk songwriter Roy Harper<\/a> to perform the song.<\/p>\n

Revisit Sam Sodomsky\u2019s Sunday Review of Wish You Were Here<\/a>, and read about the album\u2019s title track at No. 39 in \u201cThe 200 Best Songs of the 1970s<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here 50<\/p>\n

Wish You Were Here 50<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

01 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-5)
02 Welcome to the Machine
03 Have a Cigar
04 Wish You Were Here
05 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 6-9)<\/p>\n

01 Wine Glasses
02 Have a Cigar (Alternate Version)
03 Wish You Were Here [ft. St\u00e9phane Grappelli]
04 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Early Instrumental Version, Rough Mix)
05 The Machine Song (Roger\u2019s Demo)
06 The Machine Song (Demo #2, Revisited)
07 Wish You Were Here (Take 1)
08 Wish You Were Here (Pedal Steel Instrumental Mix)
09 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-9, New Stereo Mix)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pink Floyd are reissuing their classic 1975 album, Wish You Were Here, for its 50th anniversary. Wish You…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[1735,18,117,19,17,337,340],"class_list":{"0":"post-59898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-new-releases"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}