US EditionPink Floyd’s Iconic Album ‘Wish You Were Here’ Is Getting a 50th Anniversary Reissue With Bonus Songs
The 50th anniversary edition includes six unreleased demos, 25 bonus tracks, and live recordings from 1974 and 1975, celebrating the album's lasting impact and Sony Music's $400 million rights acquisition.
- Pink Floyd announced on September 12, 2025, a 50th anniversary re-release of their 1975 album Wish You Were Here, titled Wish You Were Here 50, through Sony Music.
- The reissue follows Sony's 2024 purchase of Pink Floyd's music rights for an estimated $400 million and commemorates the album’s landmark status and its tribute to co-founder Syd Barrett.
- The box set features a recently created Dolby Atmos remix of the album by James Guthrie, a remastered Steven Wilson version of a 1975 live recording from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, nine previously unreleased studio tracks, and a Blu-ray containing three concert films from 1975 alongside a short film.
- The set also includes a fourth clear vinyl LP featuring live recordings from Wembley in 1974, a Japanese-style 7-inch single replica of "Have a Cigar" and "Welcome to the Machine," a hardcover photo collection with previously unseen images, a comic-style booklet from the tour, and a poster commemorating the Knebworth concert.
- Wish You Were Here 50 will arrive in stores on December 12, 2025, offering fans expanded archival content and highlighting Pink Floyd’s enduring influence fifty years after the original release.
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Pink Floyd to release 'Wish You Were Here 50', celebrating iconic album’s 50th anniversary
Cover of Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here 50’/ (Sony Music) Pink Floyd is celebrating the 50th anniversary of their ninth studio album, Wish You Were Here, by reissuing the album with a whole host of bonus material. Wish You Were Here 50 will be released in a variety of formats, including a digital release that features the original album mixed in Dolby Atmos. It will include 25 bonus tracks, with nine studio rarities, including six tracks that …
As of 1975, Pink Floyd had detonated several revolutions in rock and had been carried away by the expansive wave of so many others. Psychedelic, progressive, electronic, experimental, symphonic, spatial, philosophical... The rock of his first eight albums adopted all those surnames, separately or together and scrambled, and the ninth one added another. 'Wish you were here' is melancholy rock, sad. Abrupt and unusually sad.David Gilmour, Nick Mas…
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