Barrett is fondly recalled with lines such as "Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun" and "You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon". The album begins with a long instrumental preamble and segues into the lyrics for "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", a tribute to Syd Barrett, whose mental breakdown had forced him to leave the group seven years earlier. It reflects his feeling that the camaraderie that had served the band was, by then, largely absent. Wish You Were Here is Floyd's second album with a conceptual theme written entirely by Roger Waters. Following the publication by NME of a negative critique of the band's new material, written by Nick Kent (a devotee of Syd Barrett) and Pete Erskine, the band returned to the studio in the first week of 1975. As Pink Floyd had never employed a publicist and kept themselves distant from the press, their relationship with the media began to sour.
WISH YOU WERE HERE PINK FLOYD SERIES
Template:Refn These songs were performed during a series of concerts in France and England, the band's first tour since 1973's The Dark Side of the Moon. Band members Richard Wright and David Gilmour have cited Wish You Were Here as their favourite Pink Floyd album.ĭuring 1974, Pink Floyd sketched out three new compositions, " Raving and Drooling", " You Gotta Be Crazy" and " Shine On You Crazy Diamond". It appears on Rolling Stone Template:'s lists of " The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and the "50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time". Wish You Were Here was an instant commercial success (despite the fact that Harvest Records' parent company EMI was unable to print enough copies of the album to satisfy commercial demand), and although it initially received mixed reviews, the album has since gone on to receive critical acclaim. These singers were Roy Harper, who provided the lead vocals on " Have a Cigar", and Venetta Fields, who added backing vocals to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". As with their previous album The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), the band used studio effects and synthesizers, and brought in guest singers to supply vocals on some tracks of the album. It was lead writer Roger Waters' idea to split "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" into two parts that would bookend the album around three new compositions and to introduce a concept linking them all.
Barrett's mental breakdown had forced him to leave the group seven years earlier, prior to the release of the group's second studio album A Saucerful of Secrets (on which he only appeared on three tracks). Two of the album's four songs criticise the music business, another expresses alienation and the multi-part track " Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is a tribute to Syd Barrett. Inspired by material the group composed while performing around Europe, Wish You Were Here was recorded during numerous recording sessions at Abbey Road Studios in London, England. The album topped record charts in both regions. It was released on 12 September 1975 by Harvest Records in the United Kingdom and a day later by Columbia Records in the United States. Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd.
0 kommentar(er)
