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Pink Floyd / Wish You Were Here 50th anniversary reissue

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Pink Floyd / Wish You Were Here 50th anniversary reissue

Box set, 3LP vinyl, 2CD, coloured vinyl and standalone blu-ray

Pink Floyd’s 1975 album Wish You Were Here is getting the full 50th anniversary treatment in December, with a whole suite of physical products available for pre-order, most of which include unreleased studio and live audio.

Released exactly 50 years ago today, the album was the follow-up to 1973’s The Dark Side of the Moon and famously embraced themes of absence, isolation and transience. It’s only a five-track album, but ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond‘ (split across two tracks) accounts for more than 50 percent of the 44 minute running time. Everything is iconic on this record, from ‘Have A Cigar‘ – Roger Waters’ scathing indictment of the music industry, sung by Roy Harper – with the infamous line “Oh by the way, which one’s Pink”, to the industrial throbbing soundscapes of ‘Welcome to the Machine‘. The title track was one of four songs played at Live 8, in 2005.

Wish You Were Here 50th anniversary super deluxe box (click to enlarge)

All of the formats of the 2025 reissue features six previously unreleased alternate versions and demos, except the single vinyl LP (which is available on ‘flame’ coloured vinyl). These rarities include two demos of ‘The Machine Song’ (which would become ‘Welcome to the Machine’), Take 1 of ‘Wish You Were Here’ and a new stereo mix of the entirety of ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ (Parts 1-9).

‘Wine Glasses’, ‘Have a Cigar (Alternate Version)’ and ‘Wish You Were Here (featuring Stéphane Grappelli)’ are repeated from the 2011 reissue.

The Wish You Were Here 50th anniversary formats are as follows:

  • 2CD+4LP+7″+blu-ray super deluxe box set
  • 2CD deluxe
  • 3LP deluxe
  • single LP ‘flame’ coloured vinyl
  • Standalone blu-ray audio

The 2CD and 3LP editions feature the album plus the nine bonus tracks discussed above and the box set features the same content (but the three LPs are exclusive on CLEAR vinyl) and adds an exclusive fourth clear vinyl LP: Live At Wembley 1974, plus a replica Japanese seven-inch single of ‘Have A Cigar’ b/w ‘Welcome To The Machine’. The bonus Wembley LP only features two tracks: ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ and ‘You’ve Got To Be Crazy’, which means ‘Raving and Drooling’ from the same gig remains exclusive to the 2011 reissue. So while there’s some exclusivity around the formats (clear vinyl, Wembley on vinyl) there is no exclusive audio in the box set. Everything is available somewhere else. If you are wondering about ‘memorabilia’ (marbles?), the box comes with a hardcover book with unseen photographs, a comic book tour programme and a Knebworth poster.

The standalone blu-ray (click image to pre-order from the SDE shop)

The blu-ray in the box set is fantastic, in terms of content, and is identical to the standalone blu-ray. It features the album in the following audio streams, including a brand new Dolby Atmos Mix, by James Guthrie.

  • 2025 Dolby Atmos Mix
  • 2011 5.1 Surround Mix
  • 1975 Stereo Mix
  • 1975 4.0 Quad Mix

Additionally, the blu-ray offers the 9 bonus tracks from the 2CD and 3LP, in hi-res stereo. But most interestingly, exclusive to the blu-ray (and digital), is something called Live Bootleg. This is 16 live recordings captured by the renowned bootlegger Mike Millard at Pink Floyd’s Los Angeles Sports Arena concert on 26 April 26 1975, meticulously restored and remastered by Steven Wilson! The Blu-ray Disc also repeats the 1975 concert films and Storm Thorgerson’s Short Film (from 2000) from the 2011 DVD and blu-ray.

Wish You Were Here will be reissued on 12 December 2025, via Sony Music. Consider supporting SDE by pre-ordering the standalone blu-ray of Wish You Were Here from the SDE shop. Other format links will appear below, shortly once available.

Tracklisting

Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd / 50th anniversary

    • Wish You Were Here original 5-track album in the following audio streams
      1. 2025 Dolby Atmos Mix
      2. 2011 5.1 Surround Mix
      3. 1975 Stereo Mix
      4. 1975 4.0 Quad Mix
      Bonus audio (stereo)
      1. Wine Glasses
      2. Have a Cigar (Alternate Version)
      3. Wish You Were Here (featuring Stéphane Grappelli)
      4. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Early Instrumental Version, Rough Mix) *
      5. The Machine Song (Roger’s Demo) *
      6. The Machine Song (Demo #2, Revisited) *
      7. Wish You Were Here (Take 1) *
      8. Wish You Were Here (Pedal Steel Instrumental Mix) *
      9. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-9, New Stereo Mix) *
      Live Bootleg (stereo)
      1. Raving and Drooling (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975) *
      2. You’ve Got To Be Crazy (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975) *
      3. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (1-5) (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975) *
      4. Have a Cigar (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975) *
      5. Shine on You Crazy Diamond (6-9) (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975) *
      6. Speak to Me (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975) *
      7. Breathe (In The Air) (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975) *
      8. On the Run (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975) *
      9. Time (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975) *
      10. The Great Gig in the Sky (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975) *
      11. Money (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975) *
      12. Us and Them (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975) *
      13. Any Colour You Like (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975) *
      14. Brain Damage (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975) *
      15. Eclipse (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975) *
      16. Echoes (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975) *
      Videos (concert Screen Films)
      1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part I)
      2. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
      3. Welcome To The Machine
      4. Storm Thorgerson Short Film, 2000

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