{"id":12360,"date":"2025-09-15T16:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=12360"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:40:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:40:04","slug":"50th-anniversary-reissue-coming-for-wish-you-were-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2025\/09\/50th-anniversary-reissue-coming-for-wish-you-were-here\/","title":{"rendered":"50th anniversary reissue coming for Wish You Were Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12361\" src=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/pfwywh50_4LP_Group_reflec-1.png\" alt=\"Wish You Were Here 50\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/pfwywh50_4LP_Group_reflec-1.png 2000w, https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/pfwywh50_4LP_Group_reflec-1-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/pfwywh50_4LP_Group_reflec-1-1024x582.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/pfwywh50_4LP_Group_reflec-1-768x436.png 768w, https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/pfwywh50_4LP_Group_reflec-1-1536x872.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sony Music will release a greatly-expanded edition of Pink Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;Wish You Were Here&#8221; for the album&#8217;s 50th anniversary. It will include a number of previously unreleased alternate versions and live recordings.<\/p>\n<p>The album drops Dec. 12 and will be available on 3LP, 2CD, Blu-ray, digital and as a boxset.<\/p>\n<p>Long-time Floyd<a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PF-WYWH50_Digital-Standalones_Silver_V2-3-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-12362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PF-WYWH50_Digital-Standalones_Silver_V2-3-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Wish You Were Here 50 \" width=\"346\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PF-WYWH50_Digital-Standalones_Silver_V2-3-1-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PF-WYWH50_Digital-Standalones_Silver_V2-3-1-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PF-WYWH50_Digital-Standalones_Silver_V2-3-1-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PF-WYWH50_Digital-Standalones_Silver_V2-3-1-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PF-WYWH50_Digital-Standalones_Silver_V2-3-1-1-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/a> collaborator <strong>James Guthrie<\/strong> has remixed the original 1975 album in Dolby Atmos.<\/p>\n<p>The package also includes 25 bonus tracks made up of nine studio rarities; and 16 live recordings made by bootlegger <strong>Mike Millard<\/strong> at Los Angeles Sports Arena on April 26, 1975. This marks those bootleg recordings&#8217; first official release. The live audio has been restored and remastered by <strong>Steven Wilson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Among the previously-unreleased tracks is an early version of &#8220;Welcome to the Machine,&#8221; titled &#8220;The Machine Song (Demo #2, Revisited).&#8221; <strong>Roger Waters<\/strong>&#8216;s original home recording demo of the track is also part of the package.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cY3rPlOsATc?si=peqYOB9MbYZwaJDN\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Other rarities include a previously-unheard instrumental version of &#8220;Wish You Were Here&#8221; with <strong>David Gilmour<\/strong> playing pedal steel guitar; and &#8220;Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-9)&#8221; joining together for the first time the two halves of the song, newly re-mixed by Guthrie.<\/p>\n<p>Floyd teased the announcement of this 50th anniversary release by updating its website, social media platforms and streaming presence to all appear to be wrapped in opaque black vinyl \u2014 a nod to the original LP&#8217;s release.<\/p>\n<p>The official online store of the band \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.pinkfloyd.com\">shop.pinkfloyd.com<\/a> \u2014 has added a number of items to its inventory to complement the album&#8217;s re-release, including a windproof lighter and fire extinguisher. Both refer to the album&#8217;s infamous cover photo of stunt man <strong>Ronnie Rondell Jr. <\/strong>ablaze while shaking hands with his doppelg\u00e4nger. (Rondell died last month at age 88. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2025\/08\/wish-you-were-here-burning-man-dies\/\">&#8220;&#8216;Wish You Were Here&#8217; burning man dies&#8221;<\/a> [Aug. 17, 2025]).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinkfloyd.com\/pink-floyd-announce-wish-you-were-here-50\/\">Full track lists and more details are available at the official Floyd website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Music will release a greatly-expanded edition of Pink Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;Wish You Were Here&#8221; for the album&#8217;s 50th anniversary. It will include a number of previously unreleased alternate versions and live recordings. The album drops Dec. 12 and will be available on 3LP, 2CD, Blu-ray, digital and as a boxset. Long-time Floyd collaborator James Guthrie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise","category-recordings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12360"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12369,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360\/revisions\/12369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}