Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (Yellow Vinyl)

50th Anniversary Yellow Flame Vinyl

Pressed for the album's 50th anniversary, this single LP is the first time Wish You Were Here has appeared on yellow flame vinyl: a yellow disc marbled with orange. The hype sticker on the front reads "Exclusive on Yellow Flame Vinyl," sets out the running order side by side, and carries the Columbia and Sony Music marks above this pressing's barcode.

The album was first released on September 12, 1975, on Harvest in the UK, and a day later in the United States on Columbia, its first Pink Floyd record.

The cover photograph was taken by Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis on the Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank, California. Stuntmen Ronnie Rondell Jr. and Danny Rogers shook hands while Rondell, in fireproof gear, was set alight; on the fifteenth take the wind turned and singed his mustache. In the band's anniversary announcement Powell recalls the brief he was given: "Po, you're just going to have to do it for real."

The title song opens on the sound of a car radio being tuned, taken from David Gilmour's own car and passing through the finale of Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony. Gilmour plays twelve-string and pedal steel guitar on it. Pink Floyd's own store names the record's themes as absence, isolation, transience and the insincerity of the music industry.

Tracklist

Side A

1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5)
2. Welcome to the Machine

Side B

3. Have a Cigar
4. Wish You Were Here
5. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9)

Complete the Collection

Counting this pressing, fifteen Pink Floyd albums are on the shelves at Evergreen Vinyl: The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, A Saucerful Of Secrets, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Obscured By Clouds, The Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, The Wall, A Collection Of Great Dance Songs, The Division Bell, The Best of Pink Floyd: A Foot in the Door, The Dark Side of the Moon: Live at Wembley Empire Pool, London, 1974, 8-Tracks.