Pink Floyd’s Half-Century-Old Album Finally Hits No. 1

Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here reaches No. 1 for the first time on multiple charts in the U.K. and returns to the summit on ...
Louder

After 50 years, Pink Floyd have released an official music video for one of their greatest and best-loved songs

Pink Floyd have shared an official music video for Wish You Were Here, 50 years on from the song's release on their 1975 album of the same name. Directed by Justin Daashuur Hopkins, the psychedelic ...
Forbes

Pink Floyd’s Blockbuster Earns Its First New Certification In A Quarter-Century

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Wish You Were Here ranks as Pink Floyd's third-most-certified album ...
Rolling Stone

New Pink Floyd Box Set Finally Reveals Which One’s ‘Pink’

Remember when you were young? Pink Floyd‘s members (with the exception of drummer Nick Mason) don’t seem to relish the thought, but those opening lyrics to “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” perfectly evoke ...
Official Charts Company

Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here on course for Christmas Number 1 album

Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here is on course to regain the Number 1 album, 50 years after it initially took the top spot back in 1975. This comes after the release of Wish You Were Here 50, ...
Official Charts Company

This is the first time Pink Floyd have secured two Number 1 albums in a year

The group released their Wish You Were Here 50 reissue on digital and physical editions, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the legendary record. It includes six ...
The Irish Times

Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here 50 review – Brilliantly bleak masterpiece comes with its own mythology

Prog rock was about to crash headlong into punk when Pink Floyd released Wish You Were Here, their sombre, disembodied masterpiece, in September 1975. The band was too successful to be threatened by ...
NME

David Gilmour celebrates Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ landing UK’s record-breaking Christmas Number One album

The classic record has been reissued with new digital and physical editions for its 50th anniversary, and on Friday (December 19), it was announced that it had topped the Official Albums Chart for ...
Rolling Stone

Rock’s Greatest Bootlegger: A New Pink Floyd Box Set Legitimizes an Outlaw

Mike “The Mic” Millard recorded more than 300 concerts in pristine sound quality between 1973 and 1993, including a 1975 Wish You Were Here tour stop in L.A. In the midst of all this chaos, few took ...
The Guardian

‘Harder work than almost any album we ever did’: Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here turns 50

As the classic album hits 50, Nick Mason talks about the often difficult process of making it and how it has since fit into their larger catalogue By almost every measure, from commercial reward to ...
NPR

Pink Floyd's drummer Nick Mason reflects on 50 years of 'Wish You Were Here'

For 50 years, that lo-fi guitar riff has been the preamble to one of the most recognizable rock songs of all time. PINK FLOYD: (Singing) So, so you think you can tell heaven from hell, blue skies from ...
Consequence

Pink Floyd Unveil a Music Video for “Wish You Were Here” 50 Years After Its Release: Watch

Fifty years after the release of their classic song "Wish You Were Here," Pink Floyd have unveiled an official music video ...