July 5, 1975: Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" is heard in public for the first time.

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1975 – PINK FLOYD PREMIERE THEIR WISH YOU WERE HERE…
Posted on 10:54 PM by STU SWEATMAN

Pink Floyd

1975 – Pink Floyd premiere their Wish You Were Here album in a performance that takes in fireworks, Spitfire planes flying overhead, and even a model plane that crashes into the stage.

Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album)

Wish You Were Here



Standard artwork for most releases

Released: 12 September 1975
Recorded: January–July 1975
Studio: Abbey Road Studios, London

Released: 15 November 1975

Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 12 September 1975 through Harvest Records and Columbia Records, their first release for the latter. Based on material Pink Floyd composed while performing in Europe, Wish You Were Here was recorded over numerous sessions throughout 1975, at Abbey Road Studios in London.
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Touring

The band played much of Wish You Were Here on 5 July 1975 at the Knebworth music festival. Roy Harper, performing at the same event, on discovering that his stage costume was missing, proceeded to destroy one of Pink Floyd's vans, injuring himself in the process. This delayed the normal setup procedure of the band's sound system. As a pair of World War II Supermarine Spitfire had been booked to fly over the crowd during their entrance, the band were not able to delay their set. The result was that a power supply problem pushed Wright's keyboards completely out of tune, damaging the band's performance. At one point he left the stage, but the band were able to continue with a less sensitive keyboard, a piano and a simpler light show. Following a brief intermission, they returned to perform The Dark Side of the Moon, but critics displeased about being denied access backstage savaged the performance.

Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here is not to be confused with Badfinger's Wish You Were Here. Badfinger's album came out a year earlier:

Wish You Were Here (Badfinger album)

Wish You Were Here



Studio album by Badfinger

Released: November 1974
Recorded: 9 April–7 May 1974

Wish You Were Here is the sixth album by rock band Badfinger and their third consecutive album produced by Chris Thomas. It was recorded in the spring of 1974 at Colorado's Caribou Ranch and released in November of that year on Warner Bros. Records. Wish You Were Here was the second and last album the band released on the Warner's label.

Here's a great tune from the Badfinger album. Did Badfinger have any tunes that weren't great?

[hlthe2b]

1. I hate to say it, but I think the "loss" of Syd Barrett did more for Pink Floyd and its

future direction than anything I could imagine if he had been able to remain with the band. Barret obviously influenced the band and he still has some intensely hardcore fans, but heavens, without Gilmore, I just don't see it. And clearly, Waters was both strongly impacted by what happened but similarly inspired.

Pink Floyd is one of those legendary bands that I hope generations to come will discover.