Wish You Were Here Album Back Cover
Pink floyd did the same with wish you were here an album that served not only as a scathing music industry critique but also as a moving tribute to original lead singer syd barrett.
Wish you were here album back cover. Furthermore several photo outtakes have been made public in the interim. Original song by pink floyd. He eventually decided that the songs were in general concerned with unfulfilled presence. In the words of powell and thorgerson the image embodied floyd s critique of the corporate side of the music business.
The wish you were here album cover photo designed by hipgnosis and photographed by aubrey po powell was inspired by the fact that people tend to mask their true feelings to avoid getting burned so two businessmen are featured shaking hands with one of them on fire. The photo on the cover of the album was taken by storm thorgerson who had accompanied the band on their 1974 tour and had given serious thought to the meaning of the albums lyrics. Like in many of the albums the cover art differs between the european and north american releases. Theyre from two different series.
Outtakes from the wish you were here cover photo shoot decades later with so many reissues of the album having been released which photo corresponds to which edition of the album is uncertain to us at least. Logic pro x focusrite saffire pro 4. On the album s back cover another corporate type this time a businessman in a suit and a hat offers a copy of wish you were here leaving no doubt as to how pink floyd felt about the record company machinery the band was feeding.