Roy Harper PINK FLOYD WISH U WERE 25th Anniversary CD


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Artist:	Pink Floyd	Release Date:	Nov 29, 2000
Format:	CD	Record Label:	EMI Records (UK)
UPC:	766486508224	Genre:	Rock
Duration:	Album or EP	Sub-Genre:	Progressive & Art Rock
Condition:	Very Good	Special Attributes:	Remastered, Special Edition, 25th Anniversary Pressing!

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Track listing
1. Shine on You Crazy Diamond 2. Welcome to the Machine 3. Have a Cigar 4. Wish You Were Here 5. Shine on You Crazy Diamond
Details
Contributing artists:	Roy Harper
Distributor:	Phantom Import Distributi
Recording type:	Studio
Recording mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album notes
Pink Floyd: David Gilmour (vocals, guitar); Richard Wright (vocals, keyboards, VCS3 syntheszier); Roger Waters (vocals, bass); Nick Mason (drums). Additional personnel: Roy Harper (vocals); Dick Parry (saxophone); Venetta Fields, Carlena Williams (background vocals). Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, England from January-July 1975. Digitally remastered by Doug Sax (The Mastering Lab, Los Angeles, California). Pink Floyd: David Gilmour (vocals, guitar); Richard Wright (vocals, keyboards, VCS3 syntheszier); Roger Waters (vocals, bass); Nick Mason (drums). Additional personnel: Roy Harper (vocals); Dick Parry (saxophone). Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, England from January to July 1975. All songs written by members of Pink Floyd. This is part of Columbia/Legacy's Master Sound series. Master Sound releases are 24-karat gold CDs remastered from first-generation masters. This process utilizes 20-bit technology and Sony's "Super Bit Mapping" system. British limited release comes in a miniature LP sleeve with the original artwork, and a postcard. The breakthrough success of DARK SIDE OF THE MOON made WISH YOU WERE HERE a crucial follow-up in strictly commercial terms. Further pressure came from it being Pink Floyd's first recording for a new label, Columbia. Yet the demands on the band only provided Roger Waters with more fodder for his lyrics, which glanced at the band's roots as well as their new responsibilities. The mechanized throb of a VCS3 synthesizer, fed through a repeat-echo unit, signals the opening bars of "Welcome to the Machine," a diatribe against an industry more concerned with money than creative music-making. "Have a Cigar" further establishes Waters' contempt by bringing in singer Roy Harper to play the role of a "faceless suit," who none-too-innocently asks, "Which one's Pink?" The remaining songs indirectly look back to the first casualty of Pink Floyd's growing fame, the group's founder, Syd Barrett. The 20-minute-plus "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" has its roots in earlier pieces like "Atom Heart Mother Suite" and "Echoes." But rather than just another Floydian soundscape, its lyrics make it a paean to Barrett's genius and a requiem for his subsequent breakdown. The first five of the song's nine movements open the album with sax player Dick Parry wailing as effectively as he did on DARK SIDE. The final four sections, which close the album, form a reprise that starts with the sound of wind and David Gilmour's guitar screaming and crying. The band then settles into a laid-back jam that ends with Richard Wright's billowing synth delicately fading out. The title track deals also with Barrett, as well as the tension the idealist Waters was feeling in battling the greed that surrounded the band's success. The themes of disillusionment planted throughout WISH YOU WERE HERE would eventually sprout full-blown on THE WALL.
Editorial reviews
Ranked #43 in Q's 100 Greatest British Albums - Stuck with the impossible task of following DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, Pink Floyd did it with panache....'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' is the mellifluous rock-gospel opener, but there's weirder stuff here... Q (06/01/2000) [The music] has a magnificently ethereal quality, with David Gilmour's guitar and Rick Wright's keyboards sounding like meteorites gently pinging around some far-off galaxy. Q

PINK FLOYD: WISH YOU WERE HERE (1975/2000, EMI) You are about to bid on an increasingly HARD TO FIND, near MINT CONDITION, most likely OUT OF PRINT, ORIGINAL PRESSING CD (not CDR) of this stunning 25th anniversary reissue of the classic 1975 effort by none other than ROGER WATERS, DAVID GILMOUR, NICK MASON and RICHARD WRIGHT, better known as PINK FLOYD! The follow-up to the hugely popular Dark Side Of The Moon, this 5 track gem contains classics like "Have A Cigar", “Wish You Were Here”, “Welcome To Machine and the two separate extended pieces of “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”, their tribute to ex-leader Syd Barrett! Add to that a guest vocal by folk legend ROY HARPER on “Have A Cigar” and a stunning REMASTERING job and you have an essential addition to any serious music library! Buyer should be aware that the bonus CD “The Early Singles” that was supposed to come with this pressing is NOT INCLUDED in this package as it was missing when I aquired it. Otherwise, you get full artwork and a pristine Wish You Were here disc. Now with over 3950 positive feedbacks, you can bid with confidence!

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