Wish You Were Here

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Written by: David Gilmour, Roger Waters
Produced by: Pink Floyd
Released: Sept. '75 on Columbia
Charts: Non-single

While Pink Floyd were recording this elegy for burned-out ex-frontman Syd Barrett, he mysteriously appeared in the studio in such bad shape nobody recognized him. "He stood up and said, 'Right, when do I put my guitar on?' " keyboardist Rick Wright recalled. "And of course, he didn't have a guitar with him. And we said, 'Sorry, Syd, the guitar's all done.' "

Appears on: Wish You Were Here (Capitol)

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