which was a dumb question asked by record company execs who thought Pink Floyd was the name of a performer. But it was the title track, Wish You Were Here ... 12-string acoustic guitar intro.

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has said his band ... The band are best known for the albums Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), and The Wall (1979), as well as songs ...

Electricity? Overrated… ‘Real’ guitarists know that a guitar’s genuine excitement is best earned via the more personal connection of the player plus the resonant wooden body of an acoustic. Decades ...

Pink Floyd’s seminal 1972 live album, on which he worked as an engineer. The spirit of Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here unashamedly infuses the wonderful The Overview, a languid ...

“It’s an album I can listen to for pleasure, and there aren’t many Floyd albums that I can.” Wish You Were Here, if you happen to be hearing the full album cut of the song for the first time (above), ...

DAMIAN Darlington is a busy man and someone you might well describe as a Pink Floyd ... and visuals. Here we were marking the 50th anniversary of the Floyd’s ninth album Wish You Were with ...

It’s approaching the 50-year anniversary of Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd’s ninth and arguably most accomplished ... this time played on a twelve-string acoustic guitar. The popularity of ‘Wish You ...

Whether standing amid the cacophonous sensory overload of a Pink Floyd spectacular or alone in the lush acoustic intimacy of the Royal ... his own private hell is very well documented on Wish You Were ...

Pink Floyd started in London in 1965 as a rock band known for their unique sound and deep lyrics. Members Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason, and David Gilmour created music ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd’s album dedicated to the band's original frontman Syd Barrett. Bricks In The Wall, the longest-performing ...

Every night, in a two-and-a-half-hour-plus show, BRIT FLOYD will perform the music of Wish You Were Here as well as classic tracks from Pink Floyd's magnificent catalog of albums, including ...

Immediately upon release, Pink Floyd described Wish You Were Here as an album about “absence,” and that central “absence” was Barrett. As soon as Waters wrote the words to accompany ...