Tim Renwick recalls Pink Floyd‘s wild rise from high school rockers to prog-rock gurus

Renwick, who has played with Eric Clapton, David Bowie and many others, was there from Floyd's start to Gilmour‘s and Waters' ...
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 ...
Official Charts Company

This is the first time Pink Floyd have secured two Number 1 albums in a year

The group released their Wish You Were Here 50 reissue on digital and physical editions, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the legendary record. It includes six ...
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 ...
Rolling Stone

New Pink Floyd Box Set Finally Reveals Which One’s ‘Pink’

Remember when you were young? Pink Floyd‘s members (with the exception of drummer Nick Mason) don’t seem to relish the thought, but those opening lyrics to “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” perfectly evoke ...
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” ...
Consequence

Pink Floyd Detail Wish You Were Here 50th Anniversary Edition

Pink Floyd have announced Wish You Were Here 50, a special 50th anniversary edition of the band’s seminal studio album, Wish You Were Here, set for release on December 12th via Sony Music. Pre-orders ...
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50 Years Ago, Pink Floyd Was Recording the Greatest Rock Record of All Time

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...
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“I had a terrible habit of playing bits of songs by other people”: The Pink Floyd classic that Roger Waters was worried David Gilmour had stolen from someone else

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. And yet, even on a record that Gilmour remembers “started quite painfully”, the title track ...
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Top 5 best Pink Floyd stage performances of all time

Some bands thrive in the safety of the recording studio, away from the chaotic energy of a live audience. But Pink Floyd mastered both with remarkable flair. The British progressive rock legends did ...