Significant longplayers from the past
12 September 2025
PINK FLOYD released WISH YOU WERE HERE
their 9th LP, on 12 September 1975, today
50 years ago.
The lyrics express longing, alienation, and sardonic criticism of the music industry.
The greater bulk of the record was taken up by Shine On You Crazy Diamond,
a nine-part tribute to Pink Floyd‘s flamboyant co-founder Syd Barrett who got
fired years before for his huge drug problems.
The album went to #1 in the UK as well as in the US.
The stuntman Ronnie Rondell, who was set on fire
for the LP cover, died aged 88, last August 18th.
The Village Voice wrote: “The music is not only simple and attractive, with the synthesizer used mostly for texture and the guitar breaks for comment, but it actually achieves some of
the symphonic dignity, and cross-referencing, that The Dark Side of the Moon simulated so ponderously.”
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