Pink Floyd, two previews from the “Wish you were here” box

Pink Floyd have made available a new stereo mix of Shine On You Crazy Diamondpremiered as one continuous song, included on the deluxe version of “Wish You Were Here”which will be released in various formats on December 12th via Sony Music.

The band has shared a brand new video for “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”for the first time treated as a single continuous 25-minute piece.

“Shine On You Crazy Diamond” (pts. 1-9)” features a new stereo mix by James Guthrie, which will be included on the 50th anniversary edition of the band’s ninth album.

The video shows comedian, actor and artist Noel Fielding creating one of his paintings dedicated to Syd Barrett, the group’s founding member who left the band in 1968, whose legend is celebrated in the lyrics of “Shine On…”. Barrett famously showed up at Abbey Road Studios as the band was starting the final mixes of the song, without any of the members initially recognizing him due to his completely changed physical appearance.

“I was quite young when my affinity with Pink Floyd and Syd began,” Fielding recalls. “I remember going to the library and renting the tape of ‘The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn’ when I was 12 years old. I was like, ‘What is this?’ It blew my mind. I couldn’t believe it. When I first started being a stand-up comedian I always tried to write as if I were Syd Barrett. I liked his style, the way he walked, the way he talked. ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond‘ it’s a beautiful tribute to him.

“What is extraordinary about Pink Floyd, especially with ‘Wish You Were Here’is that the artwork lived up to the music. When you’re 12 and you see two men shaking hands, one of them is on fire, you think ‘what?!’. And the music goes exactly in that direction; it is perfectly in tune with the images, with that strange surrealism. And it’s all very Syd Barrett. It could be the 1970s, but it could also be 2040. It’s the future and the past at the same time. They are a masterpiece, that cover and that album.”

Pink Floyd have also shared a previously unreleased demo of “Welcome To The Machine,” titled “The Machine Song (Roger’s demo),” the first home demo of the song that Roger Waters initially brought to the band. It is one of the unreleased alternative and demo versions included in the Deluxe box set.