More like Wish You Were Here
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Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by Pink Floyd, released in September 1975 through Harvest Records in the UK and Columbia Records in the US — the band's first album for that label. Built from material developed during European performances, it was recorded across multiple sessions throughout 1975 at EMI Studios in London. The taste it signals reaches toward concert films, stories of characters pulled out of their element, and written accounts of a band's collective history.
About Wish You Were Here
Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 12 September 1975 through Harvest Records in the United Kingdom and a day later in the United States through Columbia Records, as the band's first album for the label. Based on material composed while performing in Europe, Wish You Were Here was recorded over numerous sessions throughout 1975 at EMI Studios in London.
From the Wikipedia article Wish_You_Were_Here_(Pink_Floyd_album), available under CC BY-SA.
Films like Wish You Were Here
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Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii
Pink Floyd performing in Pompeii's ancient ruins for no audience at all — pure music stripped of the crowd's presence.
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Pink Floyd: Pulse
A full live set from the same band, captured decades later on the Division Bell tour at Earls Court.
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Tokyo Pop
A young rock singer gets a postcard from Japan saying "wish you were here" and sets off for Tokyo.
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Pink Floyd: The Wall
A troubled rock star descends into madness amid physical and social isolation from everyone around him.
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Psych-Out
A runaway searches for a missing brother through San Francisco's psychedelic underground, falling in with a band.
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Wish You Were Here
A rebellious young woman in postwar England pushes against a stifling world that has no place for her.
Books to read after Wish You Were Here
Frequently asked
What should I watch after getting into Wish You Were Here?
Start with Pink Floyd: The Wall, a surreal 1982 film where a troubled rock star descends into madness — it shares the same band and that same haunted, introspective atmosphere. Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii is also essential, capturing the raw, pre-audience live energy of the era.
Are there any books that go deep on Pink Floyd and the world behind Wish You Were Here?
Echoes is a comprehensive chronicle of the band's entire career — from before formation through their later years — while Saucerful of Secrets is a full biography covering their progressive and psychedelic roots.
Why do people still love Wish You Were Here more than 50 years on?
It's a rare album that fuses conceptual ambition with raw emotional grief, born from sessions at EMI Studios in London and rooted in the band's complicated feelings toward their creative world — that combination of grandeur and vulnerability has kept it resonating across generations.