Pink Floyd have unveiled the official music video for ‘Wish You Were Here’, arriving half a century after the song was first released.
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The landmark 1975 album was given fresh digital and physical reissues earlier this month to mark its 50th anniversary. Alongside that celebration, the band have now released a long awaited video for the record’s title track.
The clip begins with a shot of the moon, before shifting into a rapid sequence of striking and surreal imagery. Scenes include sperm moving toward an egg, a burning eye, and bursts of light cutting through darkness.
From there, the video moves into more personal moments, featuring archival footage of the band in the studio and clips of them running through a subway station. Woven throughout are psychedelic animations of a small figure drifting across time and space.
Check it out below.
Last Friday on December 19, it was confirmed that the newly reissued album had reached the top of the Official Albums Chart just in time for Christmas.
The album also claimed the number one spot when it was first released in 1975. That achievement now gives Pink Floyd the record for the longest gap between an artist’s first and most recent chart topping albums, spanning 2,620 weeks, or more than 50 years.
This marks the band’s second number one album of the year, following ‘Pink Floyd At Pompeii – MCMLXXII’, the live recording of their 1971 performance that was originally issued as a concert film in 1972 and re released earlier this year with newly mixed audio.
To celebrate the anniversary edition of ‘Wish You Were Here’, Pink Floyd also launched a run of pop up stores across the UK, Europe and the United States, offering fans an exclusive edition of the Brain Damage fanzine.
Alongside this, Noel Fielding produced a series of artworks inspired by Syd Barrett to coincide with the reissue of Pink Floyd’s ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’.
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