This September 12, one of the most important albums in the history of rock is anniversary. ‘Wish you were here’ one of Pink Floyd’s jewels is 50 years old And the band has announced the launch of a special edition of this record work for December 12.
“Half a century after its original launch in 1975, Pink Floyd announces the 50th anniversary edition of his album that marked an era, ‘Wish You Were Here’. This material offers fans a new and exciting perspective of one of the most iconic and beloved albums, ”said a statement that is hung on the official site of the band: https://www.pinkfloyd.com/
According to this text, The special edition will include multiple oddities of oddities; with alternative versions and unpublished demos of the five original themes that make up the original work.
The material will be launched in several formats, which include three LP, two CD, Blu-ray, digital and a luxury box, in addition to a digital edition.
The digital launch Includes the original 1975 album, which presents a new Dolby Atmos mixture made by James Guthrie, whose work with Pink Floyd goes back to The Wall of 1979. It also includes 25 additional tracks composed of nine oddities of study and 16 live recordings captured by the renowned Bootlegger Mike Millard at the Pink Floyd concert in Los Angeles Sports Arena on April 26, 1975, which now receives its first official release. This live audio has been and remastered by Steven Wilson.
On the other hand, The Blu-ray edition also gives fans the opportunity to watch three concert films of the band tour in 1975in addition to a short film by renowned designer Storm Thorgerson.
For LP and CD formats they include the original album and the nine additional study tracks.
Finally, the Deluxe box includes the complete material in two CD, three LP (in exclusive transparent vinyl) and Blu-ray, in addition to a fourth LP in transparent vinyl, a replica of the 7-inch Japanese single from ‘Have a cigar b/w welcom Knebworth.
First single
To celebrate the announcement of the album, this Friday the unpublished demo of ‘Welcome to the Machine’ was also launched, originally entitled ‘The Machine Song’, on all streaming platforms.
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This version, which has a shorter duration than the original, offers fans an exciting advance of what they can expect from ‘Wish You Were Here 50’. Other oddities of study that will be launched include ‘The Machine Song (Roger’s Demo)’, The first homemade demo of the song that Roger Waters originally brought to the band, an unpublished instrumental mixture of the song ‘Wish You Were Here’ showing the Pedal Steel guitar by David Gilmour and, for the first time, the theme ‘Shine on You Crazy Diamond (pts. 1-9)’ that joins the two halves of the song.
A great record job
Released a couple of years after the publication of ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’, the album ‘Wish You Were Here’ has remained firm on the lists of the best albums of all time for decades.
With References to Syd Barrett in ‘Shine on You Crazy Diamond’, the hypnotic ‘Welcome to the Machine’, the mushroom ‘have cigar’ played by Roy Harper, That he is not a member of the band, and the main song ‘Wish You Were Here’, these are the five songs that are part of one of the most important albums in the history of popular music.
“The themes of the album: the absence, the isolation, the transience and the criticism of the insincerity of the music industry are reflected on the iconic cover. The visual words games, developed by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey” Po “Powell in Hipgnosis, remain visual statements recognizable at the moment,” the text complemented.
