Pink Floyd’s classic 1975 album Wish You Were Here is getting a 50th anniversary reissue.
The updated edition will be available in 3xLP and 2xCD formats featuring previously unreleased alternate mixes and demos. A box set will also include a fourth LP of live material recorded at Wembley Stadium and a Blu-ray that collects three concert films from Pink Floyd’s 1975 tour.
“In the 1970s, album covers were equally as important as the music, because the cover helped to sell the record,” Aubrey Powell, who co-designed Wish You Were Here cover alongside Storm Thorgerson, said in a statement. “Record stores would carry 10,000 different images in album sleeves, so what we were doing had to look different and stand out amongst the crowd. I remember turning around to Storm and saying, ‘How are we going to set a man on fire?’ Because there was no digital way of doing it in those days. He said, ‘Po, you’re just going to have to do it for real.'”
Wish You Were Here was recorded partly as a tribute to Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd’s original vocalist, who left the band seven years prior to its release due to declining mental health. Roger Waters and David Gilmour shared lead vocals on the album.
Listen to ‘The Machine Song (Demo #2, Revisited)’, a demo version of ‘Welcome To The Machine’, below.
Sony Music Entertainment will release Wish You Were Here 50 on December 12, 2025.
