PINK FLOYD WISH YOU WERE HERE ORIG UK PRESS PrIsTiNe

	£		245
	$		325

PINK FLOYD ''WISH YOU WERE HERE'' ORIGINAL ARCHIVE COPY UK PRESSING CAT NO.SVHL 814 AWESOME AUDIO THROUGHOUT! COMPLETE WITH ORIGINAL BLACK POLY COVER WITH RARE STICKER (ONLY EARLY PRESS) AND POSTCARD!! SO VERY HARD TO FIND THESE PRESSINGS LIKE THIS!!!!! (NO) NEEDLE SCRATCHES!!!!! THIS LOOKS AND SOUNDS COMPLETELY UNPLAYED!!!SO RARE TO FIND LIKE THIS!!! NEVER NEED TO UPGRADE FROM THIS ALBUM AN ARCHIVE COPY!!!

ANOTHER ORIGINAL PINK FLOYD UK PRESSING FROM MY PERSONAL COLLECTION! STORED IN A CASE FOR THE BEST PART OF 30 YEARS WIYTH THE VINYL SEPERATED FROM THE SLEEVE AND COVER THE WAY THAT I HAVE ALWAYS STORED MY VINYLS!!! THIS LOOKS TOTALLY UNPLAYED IN MY OPINION! NEVER NEED TO UPGRADE! TOTALY ORIGINAL 34 YEAR OLD PINK FLOYD ALBUM! UNBELEIVABLE! AND ONE OF MY FAVOURITE ALBUMS!!!!

Wish You Were Here is a concept album by Pink Floyd. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios between January and July 1975 and released on September 15 1975 (see 1975 in music), the album would later be regarded as one of Pink Floyd's greatest albums and was ranked 209 on Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. Its lyrics, composed by Roger Waters and concerning the music industry, question the market-oriented record companies' lack of understanding and interest for musicians. The album also pays tribute to Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd's former guitarist and chief songwriter, especially "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", and the title track itself

The Dark Side of the Moon had proved to be a phenomenal success, bringing Pink Floyd into the public spotlight, and the band's members began to worry how they could ever follow up such a masterpiece. After a brief flirtation with recording an album without using musical instruments, the band began honing three extended live songs over the next two years: "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," "You Gotta Be Crazy" and "Raving and Drooling". In the process, however, "Shine On" became too long to fit on a single side of a vinyl album and at the behest of Waters the band split it into two halves, composing new material to fit between them. Waters convinced the band to temporarily drop the other songs (a decision that guitarist David Gilmour fought against), which later became, respectively, "Dogs" and "Sheep" on the Animals album. Waters' newer compositions documented the band's current outlook (with the lyrics of the title track "Wish You Were Here" alluding to their boredom and frustration with music) and caricatured the negative aspects of the record business (on "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a Cigar").

Wish You Were Here was Pink Floyd's first album with Columbia Records, their new label for the rest of the world (in Europe they remained with EMI), which they signed with in 1973 for a reported $1 million after the success of The Dark Side of the Moon. This change in labels stemmed from the band's dissatisfaction with Capitol Records, who had under-promoted the band in America prior to Dark Side. The deal with Columbia (and its subisidiaries outside the US CBS Records and later Sony Records) gave the band complete artistic control and also ownership of their own compositions and albums from this point forward would be copyrighted to the band instead of the label.

The crafting of the album saw tensions rise within the band. Wish You Were Here would be the last Pink Floyd album to see a writing credit for keyboardist Richard Wright until The Division Bell in 1994, and essentially the last Pink Floyd album where the whole band actively contributed to the process of creation; hereafter Roger Waters was to strengthen his grip on the band's output, writing the bulk of their material. Despite these difficulties, band members Gilmour and Wright confirmed on the radio show In the Studio with Redbeard that Wish You Were Here remains their favorite Pink Floyd album.

THE VINYL

PLEASE NOTE!THIS LAYS PERFECTLY FLAT ON THE TURNTABLE! INITIAL INSPECTION THIS VINYL LOOKS AS NEW! IN FACT I CAN SEE (NO) VISABLE SIGNS THAT THIS HAS EVER BEEN PLAYED AND I DON'T REMEMBER EVER PLAYING IT!! THIS LOOKS AS GOOD AS THE DAY IT WAS PRESSED!!LOVELY AND GLOSSY WITH (NO) NEEDLE SCRATCHES OR AUDIO SOUNDING MARKS THAT I CAN SEE! AS NEW!!! ANY MARKS THAT COULD POSSIBLY BE SEEN UNDER STRONG LIGHT COULD ONLY BE   SLEEVE REMOVAL MARKS!! I CAN'T SEE ANY AT ALL!!!! PLEASE NOTE! I NORMALLY  PLAY THE VINYL'S THROUGH TRACK FOR TRACK BUT THIS LOOKS UNPLAYED AND IT SEEMS POINTLESS!!! QUITE UNBELEIVABLE FOR A PINK FLOYD RECORD THAT IS 33 YEARS OLD AND IN AS NEW CONDITION!!!

THE LABELS

THESE ARE SUPERBE (SEE PHOTOS) (NO) SPINDLE WARE  I CAN'T SEE ANY SPIDER MARKS OR ANY INDICATIONS THAT THIS HAS BEEN PLAYED AT ALL!!! UNBELEIVABLE FOR A 33 YEAR OLD PINK FLOYED ALBUM!!!!! 

THE RECORD SLEEVE

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL TYPE PICTURE SLEEVE AS NEW CONDITION (SEE PHOTOS)

THE COVER

THIS HAS THE RARE AND ORIGINAL BLACK POLY SEAL COVER WHICH HAS BEEN OF COARSE SLIT OPEN SEE PHOTOS PLEASE NOTE! VERY HARD AND RARE TO FIND WITH THE ORIGINAL STICKER! ALTHOUGH THIS HAS A SLIT DOWN THE SIDE IT HAS NEVER LEFT THE ORIGINAL COVER ,THUS PROTECTING IT THROUGH ITS STORAGE LIFE

THE POSTCARD

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL POSTCARD IN SUPERBE CONDITION  (AS NEW)(NORMALLY LOST) 

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