The video features comedian, actor and artist Noel Fielding creating one of several paintings of Syd Barrett, the band's founding member who left in 1968, and whose legend is celebrated in the lyrics to Shine On.... Barrett famously turned up at Abbey Road Studios while the band were beginning the final mixes of the track, only for none of the band to initially recognise the new appearance of their former frontman.
Pink Floyd are reissuing their classic 1975 album Wish You Were Here for its 50th anniversary. Wish You Were Here 50 is out December 12 on Sony Music Entertainment. (Pitchfork)
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’s 1975 tour and a short film by graphic designer Storm Thorgerson. Listen to “The Machine Song (Demo #2 Revisited),”
“In the 1970s, album covers were equally as important as the music, because the cover helped to sell the record,” Aubrey Powell, who co-founded the UK design collective Hipgnosis and designed the Wish You Were Here cover alongside Thorgerson, said in a statement.
“Record 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, ‘How are we going to set a man on fire?’ Because there was no digital way of doing it in those days. He said, ‘Po, you’re just going to have to do it for real.’”
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)
01 Wine Glasses
02 Have a Cigar (Alternate Version)
03 Wish You Were Here [ft. Stéphane Grappelli]
04 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Early Instrumental Version, Rough Mix)
05 The Machine Song (Roger’s 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)
01 Raving and Drooling (Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
02 You’ve Got to Be Crazy (Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
03 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-5) (Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
04 Have a Cigar (Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
05 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 6-9) (Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
06 Speak to Me (Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
07 Breathe (In the Air) (Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
08 On the Run (Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
09 Time (Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
10 The Great Gig in the Sky (Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
11 Money (Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
12 Us and Them (Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
13 Any Colour You Like (Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
14 Brain Damage (Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
15 Eclipse (Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
16 Echoes (Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
