Original title: Pink Floyd - The Story of Wish You Were Here
Year: 2011/2012
Genre: rock, documentary, Pink Floyd
Director: John Edginton
Cast and Crew: David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Joe Boyd, Venetta Fields, Jill Furmanovsky, Roy Harper, Brian Humphries, Peter Jenner, Nick Kent, Aubrey Powell, Ronnie Rondell Jr., Gerald Scarfe, and Storm Thorgerson
• 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. Bonus Features: The Blu-ray contains additional bonus material not featured in the TV broadcast version, including further interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason plus Roger Waters and David Gilmour performing excerpts from the Wish You Were Here album.
Setlist:
1. Prologue
2. Into the studio
3. Have a cigar
4. The album cover
5. Shine on you crazy diamond
6. Welcome to the machine
7. The burning man
8. Wish you were here
9. Epilogue
• Bonus Footage (1080i; 25:43) features several longer interviews with the band. Gilmour and Waters are not especially shy about detailing their discontent with the music business, and there is some nice footage of each of them playing the guitar.