Pink Floyd’s Iconic Album ‘Wish You Were Here’ Is Getting a 50th Anniversary Reissue With Bonus Songs

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The band's ninth workplace grounds has been remastered and expanded.

Pink Floyd’s landmark medium Wish You Were Here volition person a 50th day variation re-release, the set announced connected Friday (Sept. 12).

Wish You Were Here was archetypal unveiled 50 years agone connected this date, becoming Pink Floyd’s archetypal medium to apical the U.K. Albums Chart, arsenic good arsenic the Billboard 200. The lyrics explored longing and disillusion, marking a thematic alteration for the band. It is present recognized arsenic 1 of the top classical stone records ever made, having sold much than 20 cardinal copies worldwide.

The band’s ninth workplace medium has been restored, remastered and expanded with an further 25 bonus tracks, spanning alternate workplace takes and unrecorded recordings by the famed bootlegger Mike Millard astatine Pink Floyd’s Los Angeles Sports Arena performance connected April 26, 1975. The audio restoration for the second was overseen by shaper and Porcupine Tree subordinate Steve Wilson.

Rarities connected the acceptable see “The Machine Song (Roger’s demo)”, the archetypal location demo of the opus that bassist/cofounder Roger Waters primitively brought to the band; an instrumental premix of the way “Wish You Were Here”; and a implicit mentation of the nine-part creation “Shine connected You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-9).”

Wish You Were Here 50 volition beryllium released digitally connected Dec. 12 via Sony Music, arsenic good arsenic crossed aggregate carnal formats including 3LP, 2CD, Blu-ray and a container set. The erstwhile features a caller Dolby Atmos premix by James Guthrie, whose enactment with Pink Floyd dates backmost to 1979’s The Wall.

The Blu-ray edition, meanwhile, volition see 3 performance films from the band’s 1975 satellite tour, positive a abbreviated movie directed by the precocious Storm Thorgerson, with details not yet revealed. In addition, the container acceptable volition location each 2CD, 3LP and Blu-Ray material, positive a 4th wide vinyl LP, Live At Wembley 1974, a replica Japanese 7” Single of “Have A Cigar” and “Welcome To The Machine”, a hardcover photograph book, a comic publication circuit programme and a performance poster.

As a preview of what Wish You Were Here 50 will entail, the set shared an aboriginal signaling of “Welcome to the Machine.” Previously titled “The Machine Song,” it is shorter successful magnitude than the archetypal and is simply a demo way that has ne'er been heard until now. Listen to it below: