Vinyl L.P - Harvest Records - SHVL 814.
1975 - U.K - 1st edition.
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Label side 1
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Postcard (front)
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Postcard (back)
Black shrink wrap and sticker
Liner notes:
Side One
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part One)
Welcome to The Machine
Side Two
Have a Cigar
Wish You Were Here
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part Two)
Dick Parry saxophone on Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Roy Harper vocal on Have a Cigar
Backing vocals by Venetta Fields and Carlena Williams
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios January to July 1975
Engineered by Brian Humphries assisted by Peter James
Thanks to Bernie Caulder and Phil Taylor
All lyrics by Roger Waters
Produced by Pink Floyd ℗ 1975
Sleeve Design and Photography by Hipgnosis assisted by Peter Christopherson, Jeff Smith, Howard Bartrop and Richard Manning
Graphics by George Hardie NTA
Album No Harvest SHVL 814
EMI Records Limited
Hayes Middlesex England
Prnted and made in Great Britain
Garrod and Lofthouse Limited
Pink Floyd
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Roger Waters: Vocals, bass, guitar, VCS3, sound effects.
David Gilmour: Vocals, guitar, steel guitar, EMS Synthi AKS, keyboards, sound effects; 6- and 12-string acoustic guitar (Wish You Were Here).
Richard Wright: Keyboards, VCS3, clavinet, backing vocals.
Nick Mason: Drums, percussion, sound effects.
Other musicians
Dick Parry: Saxophone (Shine On You Crazy Diamond).
Venetta Fields & Carlena Williams: Backing vocals.
Roy Harper: Vocals (Have A Cigar).
Stephane Grappelli: Violin (Alternative Version - Immersion Box Set).
Album lyrics:
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V).
(Wright/Waters/Gilmour)
Remember when you were young,
You shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes,
Like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the crossfire
Of childhood and stardom,
Blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter,
Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon,
You cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night,
And exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome
With random precision,
Rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions,
Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!
Welcome To The Machine.
(Waters)
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
Where have you been?
It's alright we know where you've been.
You've been in the pipeline, filling in time,
Provided with toys and 'Scouting for Boys'.
You brought a guitar to punish your ma,
And you didn't like school, and you
know you're nobody's fool,
So welcome to the machine.
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
What did you dream?
It's alright we told you what to dream.
You dreamed of a big star,
He played a mean gituar,
He always ate in the Steak Bar.
He loved to drive in his Jaguar.
So welcome to the Machine.
Have A Cigar.
(Waters)
Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar.
You're gonna go far, fly high,
You're never gonna die,
You're gonna make it if you try;
They're gonna love you.
Well I've always had a deep respect,
And I mean that most sincerely.
The band is just fantastic,
that is really what I think.
Oh by the way, which one's Pink?
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy,
We call it Riding the Gravy Train.
We're just knocked out.
We heard about the sell out.
You gotta get an album out.
You owe it to the people.
We're so happy we can hardly count.
Everybody else is just green,
Have you seen the chart?
It's a helluva start,
It could be made into a monster
If we all pull together as a team.
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy,
We call it Riding the Gravy Train.
Wish You Were Here.
(Waters/Gilmour)
So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX).
(Wright/Waters/Gilmour)
Nobody knows where you are,
How near or how far.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Pile on many more layers
And I'll be joining you there.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
And we'll bask in the shadow
Of yesterday's triumph,
And sail on the steel breeze.
Come on you boy child,
You winner and loser,
Come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine!
Memorabilia
Columbia Records
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Billboard Magazine
Oh by the way, which one's...?
(Wish You Were Here · Alternative Version · Immersion Box Set)
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ReplyDeleteWish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 12 September 1975 through Harvest Records and Columbia Records.
Based on material Pink Floyd composed while performing in Europe, Wish You Were Here was recorded over numerous sessions throughout 1975 at EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios) in London.
The themes include alienation and criticism of the music business.
The bulk of the album is taken up by "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", a nine-part tribute to founding member Syd Barrett, who left the band seven years earlier due to his deteriorating mental health. Barrett coincidentally visited during the album's production in 1975.
Like their previous record, The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Pink Floyd used studio effects and synthesisers.
Guest singers included Roy Harper, who provided the lead vocals on "Have a Cigar", and Venetta Fields, who added backing vocals to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond".
To promote the album, the band released the double A-side single "Have a Cigar" / "Welcome to the Machine".
On its release, Wish You Were Here received mixed reviews from critics, who found its music uninspiring and inferior to the band's previous work.
It has retrospectively received critical acclaim, hailed as one of the greatest albums of all time, and was cited by keyboardist Richard Wright and guitarist David Gilmour as their favourite Pink Floyd album.
The album's cover images were photographed by Aubrey "Po" Powell, Thorgerson's partner at the design studio Hipgnosis, and inspired by the idea that people tend to conceal their true feelings, for fear of "getting burned", and thus two businessmen were pictured shaking hands, one man on fire. "Getting burned" was also a common phrase in the music industry, used often by artists denied royalty payments.
Two stuntmen were used (Ronnie Rondell and Danny Rogers), one dressed in a fireproof suit covered by a business suit. His head was protected by a hood, underneath a wig. The photograph was taken at Warner Bros. Studios in California, known at the time as The Burbank Studios.
Initially the wind was blowing in the wrong direction, and the flames were forced into Rondell's face, burning his moustache. The two stuntmen changed positions, and the image was later reversed.
The versions released on Harvest label (in Europe) and on Columbia label (among others, USA, Canada and Australia) use similar, but different photos from the photo session.