Wish You Were Here - 2025 European Columbia label 5-track LP Reissue

Robert Christgau gave the album a rare A- in his consumers guide and stated that "My favorite Pink Floyd album has always been Wish You Were Here, and you know why? It has soul,..."**

The album is remastered by long time Pink Floyd producers and engineers, James Guthrie and Joel Plante - along with legendary mastering engineer Bernie Grundman.

Vinyl is manufactured on heavyweight - 180 g - vinyl by the German Optimal Media pressing facility. Vinyl has same label design as the original 1975 issue ? the ?robotic handshake? motif on black and blue background.
Vinyl is housed in a stiff card, illustrated lyric inner sleeve, which has three cut corners ? accompanied by jagged edge 'splash-less diver at Mono Lake, California' motif postcard ? everything packed in a single pocket picture cover - sealed in shiny, jet black shrink wrapping with large round 'robot handshake on the four elements' sticker - all artwork is as the original 1975 UK release - designed by Storm Thorgerson/Hipgnosis.

Condition: New/Still Factory Sealed:
Unopened and unused - new!

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (1-5) (Gilmour, Wright, Waters) 13:38
2. Welcome to the Machine (Waters) 7:30

Side 2:
1. Have a Cigar (Waters) 5:24
2. Wish You Were Here (Gilmour, Waters) 5:17
3. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI?IX) (Waters, Wright, Gilmour - Parts VI - VIII| Gilmour Part - IX) 12:29

Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, UK

Credits:

Pink Floyd:
David Gilmour - vocals, guitar, lap steel guitar, EMS Synthi AKS, keyboards, tape effects
Roger Waters - vocals, bass guitar, guitar, EMS VCS 3, tape effects
Richard Wright - keyboards, EMS VCS 3, clavinet, background vocals
Nick Mason - drums, percussion, tape effects

Additional musicians:
Roy Harper - Lead vocals on "Have a Cigar"
Dick Parry - saxophone on "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
Venetta Fields and Carlena Williams - background vocals

Technical credits:
Pink Floyd - Production
Brian Humphries - engineering
Peter James - engineering, assistant engineering
Bernie Caulder - ?
Bernie Grundman - Laquer Cutting, Mastering
James Guthrie, Joel Plante - Mastering

Artwork:
Hipgnosis/Storm Thorgerson - design, photography
Peter Christopherson, Jeff Smith, Howard Bartrop, Richard Manning - design assistants
George Hardie - graphics

*Jeff Giles, Ultimate Classic Rock, September 12, 2015
** Christgau, Robert (1997), Radiohead - OK Computer, retrieved 30 July 2012