Wish You Were Here Tour

The Wish You Were Here Tour, also referred to as the North American Tour, was a concert tour by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd in 1975 in support of their then-forthcoming album Wish You Were Here. The tour was divided in two legs in the United States, West Coast and East Coast, and a gig in the UK at the Knebworth Festival.

On this tour debuted the song "Have a Cigar" and the "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" suite was divided in two parts with "Have a Cigar" between.

The last gig of the tour was as the headliner of 1975 Knebworth Festival, which also featured Steve Miller Band, Captain Beefheart and Roy Harper (who joined Pink Floyd on the stage to sing "Have a Cigar").^[1] Knebworth was the last time the band would perform "Echoes" and the entire The Dark Side of the Moon album with Roger Waters.^[2]

Setlist

The band performed two sets for the tour. The first set were songs from Wish You Were Here while the following album Animals, were performed under working titles. The second set consisted the entire The Dark Side of the Moon album with "Echoes" performed as an encore.^[3]

First set^[4]

1. "Raving and Drooling" (early version of "Sheep")
2. "You've Got to Be Crazy" (early version of "Dogs")
3. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts I-V"
4. "Have a Cigar"
5. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts VI-IX"

Second set

1. "Speak to Me"
2. "Breathe"
3. "On the Run"
4. "Time/Breathe (Reprise)"
5. "The Great Gig in the Sky"
6. "Money"
7. "Us and Them"
8. "Any Colour You Like"
9. "Brain Damage"
10. "Eclipse"

Encore

1. "Echoes"

Tour dates

Personnel

• David Gilmour – vocals, guitar
• Roger Waters – bass, vocals
• Richard Wright – keyboards, vocals
• Nick Mason – drums

Additional musicians

• Dick Parry – saxophone
• The Blackberries (Venetta Fields & Carlena Williams) – backing vocals

References

Citations

Sources

• Fitch, Vernon (2005). The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia. Collector's Guide Publishing. ISBN 978-1-894959-24-7.
• Shea, Stuart; Floyd, Pink (2009). Pink Floyd FAQ: Everything Left to Know ... and More!. Backbeat Books. ISBN 978-1-61713-394-7.
• Mulligan, Stephen (2013). Were You There?: Over 300 Wonderful, Weird, and Wacky Moments from Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium. Dorrance Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4809-0502-3.
• Romano, Will (2020). Wish You Were Here: Inside Pink Floyd's Musical Milestone. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4930-5076-5.

External links

• Brain Damage.co.uk