Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album)
- Harvest Records ( Europe)
- Columbia Records (USA)
New editions:
- EMI ( Europe)
- Capitol Records (USA)
Occupation
- David Gilmour - guitar, vocals
- Nick Mason - drums, percussion
- Roger Waters - bass, vocals
- Richard Wright - keyboards, vocals
Wish You Were Here is a music album by the English rock band Pink Floyd. The album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios January to July in 1975 and was released on 15 September 1975.
Content
The original album Wish You Were Here includes five titles which merge seamlessly into each other. The first and last, entitled Shine On You Crazy Diamond is a tribute to former band member Syd Barrett dar. Barrett spearheaded by 1968 as a composer, singer and guitarist, but due to a beneficiary by high drug use mental disorder for the band not portable. He was replaced by David Gilmour in 1968.
The best known was the title Wish You Were Here, which - not really intended as a love song as tends likewise dedicated to the genius, but also the madness of Syd Barrett - contrary to an often expressed view.
The title Welcome to the Machine and Have a Cigar act of the record industry, the fixation on the money and their lack of interest in the music and the musicians. In Have a Cigar a fictional monologue of a plate boss is played against a representative of the band. This reflects the sentence before: "The band is just fantastic, did is really what I think. Oh by the way, which one 's Pink " ( The band is just fantastic, I mean really so Oh, by the way. Which of you is actually pink? ). "Have a Cigar " was sung by guest musician Roy Harper.
Wish You Were Here followed the album The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) and is the predecessor of the 1977 released album Animals.
Recordings
Alan Parsons, the engineer in the previous album The Dark Side of the Moon, had rejected the offer to take over the recording of Wish You Where Here, because he was busy with The Alan Parsons Project.
Therefore, Brian Humphries was used as a sound engineer, as early as 1969 when album More. When recording the background tracks of " Shine On", he accidentally deleted the record, had worked at the Waters and Mason for many hours. The tracks had to be re-recorded.
Instrumentation
Particularly prominent in the sound are Richard Wright's keyboards. In the song Shine On You Crazy Diamond both a Minimoog synthesizer and an ARP Solina String Ensemble is employed. The Solina is a keyboard that has been designed especially for string sounds. The Mini Moog on this song imitates the sound of a trumpet. This characteristic sound runs through all nine parts of the piece. In the second half of Richard Wright dominated the sound in Part 8 ( after the last vocal verse ). The song is musically theme continued by Wright and Gilmour here in jazz-rock variations. Wright served a Hohner D6 Clavinet here and a Fender Rhodes, and also a Mini Moog with a different sound. On Welcome To The Machine a VCS 3 is used by the company EMS. It generates the noise components in the song. Two basses were used at the beginning of Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 6.
The beginning of " Shine On" contains excerpts from a to unfinished record entitled " Household Objects ". This wine glasses were filled with a different liquid, and then the edges of the glasses were bypassed with wet fingers. These sounds were distributed to several track of the console, to use as a choir at the beginning of the piece.
Has become famous on the opening sequence of the song Wish You Were Here. The song begins with a radio, from which the sound softly opening chords of Wish You Were Here. These initial chords suddenly improvised a fictional radio listeners on his acoustic guitar. Slowly blend radio and guitar, and the whole band gets on. To reinforce the impression of a radio in a living room, different sounds of the fictional radio listener ( rustling, breathing, throat clearing ) are initially heard. The stutter, which is heard in the left audio channel ( 26 seconds ), comes from David Gilmour. Little attention is barely audible violin solo by Stéphane Grappelli at the end of the piece. Grappelli played it casually for a fee of 300 pounds sterling a, as in the same building he made recordings with Yehudi Menuhin in another studio. In the 2011 Remastered version released the solo has been significantly strengthened.
Album versions
Wish You Were Here, as well as Atom Heart Mother and The Dark Side of the Moon, one of the few albums that roughly equivalent to 4.0 surround sound, also exist in a quadraphonic LP version, in. It also appeared in a so-called " Quadraphonic 8- Track" tape version that a little, but mainly in the U.S. was widespread as the quadraphonic LP in the early 1970s. However, the 4-track and 8-track tapes should not be confused with the Compact Cassette, a completely different format.
For years no quadraphonic version was released on CD or DVD officially, although some pieces very life of the surround sound effects of the original quadraphonic recording. Even before the official release circulated an unofficial DVD-Audio on the Internet, which is equipped with a MLP-96/24-, a DTS and a Dolby Digital track. The author admits to have used a mint quadraphonic vinyl disk for this version. However, the sound quality of this recording is not comparable with about the quality SACD of The Dark Side of the Moon. Also on two unofficial CDs - each for the two front and two rear speaker channels thought - this version was already discovered. In addition, the quadraphonic version of Wish You Were Here contains an additional song, about 50 seconds long instrumental piece; the lengths and the blends are very different from the original. Since November 2011, is officially available as part of the "Immersion Box" both the original quadraphonic version of 1975 as a 5.1 mix by 2009. The 5.1 mix was also released as a single SACD.
Title list
Trivia
The album Wish You Were Here was voted "the best album of all time WDR 200 " in September 2007, of over a million listeners to the winner at the WDR 2 action.
The cover of the album is dominated by photos of Storm Thorgerson on a white background. On the front, two stuntmen ( Ronnie Rondell and Danny Rogers ) are shown, where at a clothing is on fire. On the back is a man in a suit, pictured with melon, suitcase and a transparent LP of the album in a desert. Both the hands and the feet are connected to the body.
On the inner cover plate, which was like the cover of cardboard, a photo of Mono Lake with bizarre tufa towers and one without water splashes into the lake plunging float is shown. Another picture shows a meadow and straight planted trees moving in the wind, with a red silk cloth in the foreground. All images look surreal. They were mainly without photographic image manipulation.
Attached was a postcard that also represents the dipping swimmers. It is titled in English, Spanish and German in the products sold in Germany album on the back with the album title complemented by photography by Hipgnosis at Mono Lake California in 1975.
DVD
In June 2012, an official DVD documentary was titled Pink Floyd - The Story of Wish You Were Here, describing the genesis of the album in 85 minutes by various interviews and original recordings.