Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album) "It's an album I can listen to for pleasure, and there aren't many Floyd albums that I can." Gilmour shares this view: "I for one would have to say that it is my favourite album, the "Wish You Were Here" album. The end result of all that, whatever it was, definitely has left me an album I can live with very very happily. I like it very much." Pink Floyd and their manager Steve O'Rourke had been dissatisfied with the efforts of EMI's US label Capitol Records, and "Wish You Were Here" was Pink Floyd's first album with Columbia Records,
Wish You Were Here (musical) in to "restage the dances and add a new ballet" and Rome added a new song. In 1952, the original Broadway cast performed on "The Ed Sullivan Show" which, at the time, was known as "Toast of the Town". This appearance by the cast played a major role in the show's ultimate success. An excerpt from the book, "A Really Big Show: A Visual History of the Ed Sullivan Show" notes: "The musical comedy, "Wish You Were Here", was dead in the summer humidity until the producer sent its stars to rescue it on "Sullivan". Ed even had one of