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 ...
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 ...
Forbes

Pink Floyd’s Blockbuster Earns Its First New Certification In A Quarter-Century

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Wish You Were Here ranks as Pink Floyd's third-most-certified album ...
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 ...
Jambands

Pink Floyd to Celebrate ‘Wish You Were Here 50’ with Worldwide Pop-Ups and Unreleased Live Bootlegs by Mike Millard

This Friday, Dec. 12, Pink Floyd will honor the 50th anniversary of their legendary ninth studio album with Wish You Were Here 50, a massive reissue coupling the immortal record with a wealth of ...
American Songwriter

Listen to the New 25-Minute-Long Mix of Pink Floyd’s “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” From Upcoming Deluxe ‘Wish You Were Here’ Reissue

Pink Floyd will be releasing a deluxe 50th anniversary reissue of its classic 1975 album Wish You Were Here on December 12. One of the bonus tracks featured on the expanded release is a newly mixed 25 ...
Ultimate Classic Rock

Pink Floyd Previews ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ as Complete Nine-Part Opus

Pink Floyd has stitched together all nine movements of "Shine On Your Crazy Diamond" for the first time into one 25-minute song. Listen to the latest preview of their forthcoming Wish You Were Here 50 ...
Forbes

Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ Album Returning

The album that consolidated Pink Floyd’s superstar status fifty years ago receives an anniversary box set treatment. (L-R) A member of staff poses in front of the back cover image outtake of the album ...
The Harvard Crimson

A Rockstar’s Guide To Processing Grief: ‘Wish You Were Here’ Turns 50

“Two men in suits shaking hands one man is on fire.” The stark line appears in white capital letters against what looks like black plastic wrapping — the new digital album cover for Pink Floyd’s 1975 ...
Chicago Reader

Friendship during revolution

Through 10/19: Thu–Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2:30 PM; also Thu 9/25 and 10/9 2:30 PM and Sat 10/4 and 10/18 2:30 PM; Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, 773-975-8150, theaterwit.org or remybumppo.org, $25-$45 Four ...
Chicago Tribune

Review: In ‘Wish You Were Here’ at Remy Bumppo, friends are scattered by the Iranian Revolution

When your home country is no longer a safe and nurturing place, do you stay or leave? And when a close-knit group of friends is scattered across continents by their individual responses to this ...
Variety

Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ to Get Deluxe Treatment With 50th Anniversary Editions This Fall

Fifty years after the original album’s release, and 14 years after a previous boxed set left some fans thinking there was still more in the vault to be mined, Pink Floyd‘s classic “Wish You Were Here” ...