Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here

2012 · 85 MIN · IMDB 7.9 · 1,926 VOTES · DIR. John Edginton

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Overview

Wish You Were Here, released in September 1975, was the follow up album to the globally successful The Dark Side Of The Moon and is cited by many fans, as well as band members Richard Wright and David Gilmour, as their favorite Pink Floyd album. On release it went straight to Number One in both the UK and the US and topped the charts in many other countries around the world. This program tells the story of the making of this landmark release through new interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason and archive interviews with the late Richard Wright. Also featured are sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson, guest vocalist Roy Harper, front cover burning man Ronnie Rondell and others involved in the creation of the album. In addition, original recording engineer Brian Humphries revisits the master tapes at Abbey Road Studios to illustrate aspects of the songs construction.

Dialogue Timeline — 771 lines

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00:00:05 This Programme contains some strong Language.
00:03:42 even in the murk and the purple and green Blobs, you know
00:06:40 We Were All having to ASSESS
00:09:02 a sense of Purpose, and I do not really know why.
00:11:33 That was The Reality We Were Struggling with making the Follow-up
00:14:06 We've Been working on Boom Together and go, there you are, That's IT .
00:16:14 It was felt Syd That's partly Madness HAD Come About
00:18:06 # I've Always HAD a Deep Respect I Mean That Most Sincerely. #
00:20:03 as if HIS life depended on IT.
00:22:14 There is Actually a rather nice Picture of me
00:24:04 We Always felt Representing the Music That was the order of the Day.
00:26:07 Poor MAN, with a Breathing apparatus on.
00:28:19 You know, the Fact That We ' re all bits of sand that can blow away
00:32:20 And I Think if he'd HAD Another 20 minutes, you would have heard
00:34:31 He was a Living with a Whole Sort of Community of People Who Were
00:37:12 MUSIC GUITAR
00:39:52 Willy nilly. And, of Course
00:42:24 # It's All We know right where you've been
00:44:40 And both We Went, "Yeah!" Maybe Because IT was SO outrageous.
00:46:30 And here We See HIS Foot leaving frame.
00:48:31 of Wish You Were Here.
00:51:06 And I know That May sound Like Bullshit
00:53:30 .. I can not Sing IT without Thinking About Syd.
00:57:09 HE intones

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed771
Dialogue density9.1 lines / min
First line00:00:05
Final line00:57:09

Production Record

DirectorJohn Edginton
LanguageEnglish
Budget$15,732
IMDb votes1,926