50 years after its release, “Wish you were here” has a video clip

Fifty years after the release of their iconic song, Pink Floyd have released an official video clip for “Wish You Were Here”. Directed by Justin Daashuur Hopkins, the video includes animation, archival footage and studio images of the band.

When the song was released, in 1975, MTV did not yet exist – even though the video for “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen was made that year, considered the origin of the format – and was born from a performance recorded for “Top of the pops” to which director Bruce Gowers added other images. The video of the title track of the Pink Floyd classic, released a few days before Christmas, accompanies the publication of the deluxe edition for the 50th anniversary of the album, which took place on 12 December. The reissue of the album brought “Wish You Were Here” back to number one in the UK charts in Christmas week. “Wish you were here” also debuted at number one on the album charts in Italy.

The historic 1975 album is back in stores in the form of a special reissue in various formats for Sony Music (purchasable at this link) with unreleased songs and rarities. Studio rarities to be released include “The Machine Song (Roger’s demo),” the first home demo that Roger Waters originally submitted to the band, a previously unreleased instrumental mix of “Wish You Were Here” that highlights David Gilmour’s pedal steel guitar, another previously unreleased demo of “Welcome to the Machine,” “The Machine Song (Demo #2, Revisited),” and, for the first time, a complete version of “Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-9)” which combines the two parts of the song in a new stereo mix created by James Guthrie.