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Wish You Were Here

album by Pink Floyd

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    • Pink Floyd
      In Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon

      The follow-up, Wish You Were Here (1975), includes “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” a song for Barrett, and, though it went to number one in both the United States and Britain, it was considered anticlimactic and pompous by many critics.

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    • Gilmour
      • David Gilmour
        In David Gilmour: Pink Floyd years

        …in subsequent albums, such as Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), and The Wall (1979), after which he fired keyboardist Wright. On The Wall, in addition to playing guitar, Gilmour cowrote “Comfortably Numb,” “Run Like Hell,” and “Young Lust.” Pink Floyd broke up after the 1983 album The Final…

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    • Waters
      • Roger Waters
        In Roger Waters: Pink Floyd years

        …primary songwriter for the albums Wish You Were Here (1975) and Animals (1977), as well as the primary creative source behind the double album The Wall (1979).

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