Following is the only single from this album, “Have A Cigar” performed by Roy Harper and one of the two songs of Pink Floyd, featuring a guest vocal. It is intertwined with the next “Welcome To The Machine”, which is a sharp criticism of the greed and gains that have dominated the world of music. As the introductory part, glass glasses of wine were used which were filled with different amounts of liquid and the sound was obtained by folding the fingers along their periphery. “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” (from I to V whole) is the first song on the album and is dedicated to Barrett, even his name is covered in the initial letters of the name. It contains five songs that are all without exception written by Roger Waters.
This is a concept album as well as his predecessor from 1973. It was haunted by the words of the song “Jugband Blues”, the last thing Syd wrote for Pink Floyd: “It’s awfully considerate of you to think of me here, and I’m much obliged to you for making it clear, that I’m not here.” Waters, under the impression of a disturbing appearance of his lost friend, devoted the entire album to feel loneliness, alienation from people and cut off the world, just by the human feelings he saw in him. Totally unrecognizable, he looked like a middle-aged man, although he was only 29 years old. Waters asked the audience if they knew him because he was not sure who that man was and what he was looking for, and then Wright realized it was Syd Barrett, with excess pounds, shaved heads and eyebrows. The key moment occurred on June 5, 1975, during the final recording of the song “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”when an unexpected guest appeared in the Abbey Road studio. Given that the band members rarely found themselves in the same place at the same time, their relationship overriding was, in addition to the bitter thoughts associated with Barrett, that the album was called “Wish You Were Here”. Several unsuccessful attempts followed, but Waters, Gilmour, Wright and Mason finally returned to the studio in January 1975, when Waters‘s idea revived hope for a new album. due to the consequences caused by excessive consumption of LSD) to join them in the studio, but after only three days spent with him, it was clear that Syd was lost forever. The band manager, in search of a solution, succeeded to persuade even Syd Barrett (who was forced to withdraw as early as 1968. Things seemed even more difficult because guys were no longer as close as they used to be, and each of them wanted space for himself.
They felt the obligation to do something new, but the inertia that seized them did not produce positive results. According to Waters, they were creatively and physically exhausted, and the success of “The Dark Side Of The Moon”, which at that time was still at the top of the charts and tour that accompanied it, brought great expectations from the band. In early October 1973, Pink Floyd went into the studio and started working on their ninth album. It is inspired by the tragic fate of the founder of Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, the alienation that ruled among the members of the band during that period, and the lack of morality in the music industry, so it is not surprising that Gilmour and Wright, for its emotions and complexity, cited “Wish You Were Here” as their favorite album. However, on September 12, 1975, “Wish You Were Here” came out, a powerful album worthy of its predecessor, which until today is one of their authentic masterpieces, with 15 million copies sold and also one of the most successful. “The Dark Side Of The Moon” which raised PINK FLOYD to the very top of popularity and printed new pages in the history of rock music, made a difficult task before the band by destroying their ambitions that they would ever be able to create something similar to it.
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