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,
Wishing You Were Here continued into 1975, where the two bands collaborated for the "Beachago" tour. "Wishing You Were Here," as well as other Chicago songs such as "Feelin' Stronger Every Day," were performed by the two bands together. The bands revived their collaboration for a second "Beachago" tour in 1989, during which they played this song. For the encore of one June 1989 performance, with Kath and Cetera no longer in the band, Beach Boys Mike Love and Carl sang Kath and Cetera's lead vocals, respectively. Wishing You Were Here "Wishing You Were Here" is a song written by Peter Cetera for the