Rolling Stone

Pink Floyd’s Mesmerizing ‘Wish You Were Here’ Video Arrives 50 Years After Song’s Release

Fifty years after the release of Pink Floyd‘s Wish You Were Here, the band returned earlier this month with a massive anniversary box set to celebrate the landmark 1975 album. About a week after the ...
Noise11

Pink Floyd Share First Official ‘Wish You Were Here’ Music Video 50 Years On

Pink Floyd have unveiled the first official music video for Wish You Were Here, marking 50 years since the song’s release on the band’s landmark 1975 album of the same name. The video arrives half a ...
Ultimate Classic Rock

Watch the First Ever Music Video for Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’

Up until now, there never was a music video for Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here," the title track from their iconic 1975 album. That has changed. A new music video has arrived featuring animations ...
Billboard

Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ Is U.K.’s Christmas No. 1 Album of 2025

It's the the band's second No. 1 album of the year. By Thomas Smith Pink Floyd’s classic LP Wish You Were Here is the U.K.’s Christmas No. 1 album for 2025 on the chart dated Dec. 19, five decades ...
The Irish Times

Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here 50 review – Brilliantly bleak masterpiece comes with its own mythology

Prog rock was about to crash headlong into punk when Pink Floyd released Wish You Were Here, their sombre, disembodied masterpiece, in September 1975. The band was too successful to be threatened by ...
Variety

Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason Recalls the Making of ‘Wish You Were Here,’ as 50th Anniversary Boxed Set Arrives: ‘There Wasn’t a Theme to the Record Until Syd Barrett ...

How we wish we were there … back in 1975, that is, and able to again listen to Pink Floyd‘s magnum opus “Wish You Were Here” as a fresh work for the very first time, as opposed to hearing it through ...
NPR

Pink Floyd's drummer Nick Mason reflects on 50 years of 'Wish You Were Here'

For 50 years, that lo-fi guitar riff has been the preamble to one of the most recognizable rock songs of all time. PINK FLOYD: (Singing) So, so you think you can tell heaven from hell, blue skies from ...
The Guardian

‘Harder work than almost any album we ever did’: Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here turns 50

As the classic album hits 50, Nick Mason talks about the often difficult process of making it and how it has since fit into their larger catalogue By almost every measure, from commercial reward to ...
Billboard

Nick Mason Looks Back on Syd Barrett’s ‘Shocking’ Visit With Pink Floyd During ‘Wish You Were Here’ Recording

A 50th anniversary version of the group's 1975 classic is out now. By Gary Graff Pink Floyd offers fans quite a few items to be excited about in the new Wish You Were Here 50 box set, commemorating ...
Yahoo

Wish You Were Here almost ruined Pink Floyd. Yet it remains their masterpiece

On September 12 1975, Pink Floyd released Wish You Were Here. Coming off the back of 1973’s world-conquering The Dark Side of the Moon, the progressive rock quartet were on a creative roll. Everything ...
American Songwriter

3 Pink Floyd Tracks You Wish You Could Hear for the First Time, Celebrating ‘Wish You Were Here’ at 50

When Barrett visited the studio in 1975, he was unrecognizable. He appeared with a shaved head and shaved eyebrows, overweight and withdrawn. Richard Wright said Barrett happened to arrive as the band ...
NME

Pink Floyd announce pop-up stores celebrating 50 years Of ‘Wish You Were Here’ across UK, Europe and America

The pop-up stores are hosted in collaboration with Sony Music and News & Coffee, the independent magazine retailer and coffee roaster. They will open at kiosks in London, Barcelona, Los Angeles and ...