WISH YOU WERE HERE
FACTS/COMMENTS

Concept: An ode to those that are absent.
Info Source: The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia by Vernon Fitch

David Gilmour: When it sounds like it's coming out of a radio, it was done by equalization. We just made a copy of the mix, knocking out all the bass and most of the high top so that it sounds radio-like. The interference was recorded on my car radio and we put that track on top of the original. It's all meant to sound like the first track getting sucked into the radio with one person sitting in the room playing guitar along with the radio.
Info Source: Pink Floyd - Through the eyes of...by Bruno Macdonald

Comment: A three-month correspondence in Classic CD magazine eventually identified the introductory orchestral snippet as an extract from Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony.
Info Source: Pink Floyd - Through the eyes of... by Bruno Macdonald

Comment: The orchestral snippet at the end of this song was performed by a French violinist Stephane Grappelli who died in 1997. The piece he played is - Overture 1866 The Bartered Bride. He was paid 300 pounds sterling to do so.
Info Source: The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia by Vernon Fitch

Comment: Background dialog: (between Have A Cigar and Wish You Were Here) "and you Derek, this star nonsense, what do you think of it?".
Info Source: The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia by Vernon Fitch

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