Copyright: wish you were here (album)
Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 12 September 1975.
Wish You Were Here deals with themes of alienation and criticism of the music business. The bulk of the album is taken up by "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", a nine-part tribute to founding member Syd Barrett, who was sacked seven years earlier due to his deteriorating mental health.
On its release, Wish You Were Here received mixed reviews from critics, who found its music uninspiring and inferior to the band's previous work. It has now retrospectively received critical acclaim, and is now hailed as one of the greatest albums of all time, and was cited by keyboardist Richard Wright and guitarist David Gilmour as their favourite Pink Floyd album.
It reached number one in the US and UK, and the record managed to have sold over 20 million copies.