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Wish You Were Here

1975 studio album by Pink Floyd
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Summary

Wish You Were Here is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 0.069% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (19,617 views/month, #42 of 60,676).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: SNEP diamond album[3]
  • Genre: progressive rock[4], art rock[5], experimental rock[6]
  • Producer: David Gilmour[7]
  • Performer: Pink Floyd[8]
  • Record label: Harvest[9]
  • Place of publication: United Kingdom[10]
  • Part of: Pink Floyd's albums in chronological order[11], Pink Floyd studio albums discography[12]
  • Commons category: Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)[13]
  • Language of work or name: English[14]
  • Distribution format: LP record[15], music streaming[16]
  • Review score: 5[17]
  • Recorded at studio or venue: Abbey Road Studios[18]
  • Publication date: September 12, 1975[19]
  • Tracklist: Wish You Were Here[20], Shine On You Crazy Diamond[21], Welcome to the Machine[22], Have a Cigar[23]
  • Cover art by: Hipgnosis[24]
  • Topic has template: Template:Wish You Were Here[25]
  • Title: Wish You Were Here[26]
  • Different from: Wish You Were Here[27]
  • Duration: 2668[28]
  • Number of parts of this work: 5[29]
  • Form of creative work: studio album[30]

Product Details

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MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Album[31]

  • First release date: 1975-09-12[32]

  • Genre(s): ambient, art rock, electronic, experimental rock, jazz, progressive, progressive rock, psychedelic, psychedelic rock, rock, space rock[33]

  • Community tags: about music, ageing, alienation, ambient, art rock, atmospheric, bittersweet, bright, compassionate, complex, concept album, cynical, electronic, entertainment industry, epic, existential, experimental rock, friendship, greed, grief, hiphop, hypnotic, introspective, jazz, laut.de, lonely, longing, male vocalist, meditative, melancholic, melodic, mental health, nostalgia, outro, poetic, prog rock, progressive, progressive rock, psychedelic, psychedelic rock, rock, sentimental, serious, space rock, suite, trauma[34]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 1a272023-10d3-38ee-bab3-317b55fcc21d[35]

Why It Matters

Wish You Were Here has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

FAQs

What awards did Wish You Were Here receive?

Honors received include SNEP diamond album[3].

Related Entities

David Gilmour Harvest United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [31] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [34] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [35] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 28d ago · Dentsinhere43 · 2026-09-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  2. 20w ago · AlbertRA · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → —
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    Distribution format → LP record, music streaming
    Producer → David Gilmour
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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