Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ video arrives, 50 years after song’s release

Pink Floyd have shared the music video for ‘Wish You Were Here’, 50 years after its release.

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The classic 1975 record was reissued with new digital and physical editions for its 50th anniversary earlier this month. Now, they’ve also shared a music video for the title track.

The video opens with a clip of the moon, before a string of disorientating images begin to flash on the screen, including sperm racing toward an egg, an eye filled with flames, and lights zipping through darkness.

It then cuts to intimate shots of the band, showing nostalgic footage of them in the studio and running through a subway station. Throughout, psychedelic animations of a figurine floating through time and space are also featured.

Check it out below.

Last Friday (December 19), it was announced that the reissued record had topped the Official Albums Chart in time for Christmas.

The record also topped the charts on its original release in 1975, and its success means that Pink Floyd are now the artist with the longest span between their first and last Number One albums, clocking in at 2,620 weeks, or over 50 years.

It is Pink Floyd’s second Number One album of the year, following on from ‘Pink Floyd At Pompeii – MCMLXXII‘, the live album of a 1971 show that was released as a concert film in 1972 and re-released with newly mixed audio earlier this year.

To mark the re-release of ‘Wish You Were Here’, Pink Floyd launched a series of pop-up stores across the UK, Europe and the US, where they are also selling an exclusive edition of the Brain Damage fanzine.

In addition, Noel Fielding created some paintings inspired by Syd Barrett to celebrate the reissue of Pink Floyd’s ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’.

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