Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd song) in London to perform it, along with four other classic Pink Floyd songs. Waters sung half the verses during Live 8, while in the original version Gilmour did all the vocals. "Wish You Were Here" appeared as the fifth track on "A Collection of Great Dance Songs" in 1981 (with the radio intro following the end of a heavily edited "Shine On You Crazy Diamond") and as the 23rd track on the "" compilation in 2001 (with the radio intro following "Arnold Layne", and at the end crossfading with "Jugband Blues"). A live recording included on the 1995 live album
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album) echo. The entire piece had to be re-recorded. The sessions for "Wish You Were Here" at Abbey Road's Studio Three lasted from January until July 1975, recording on four days each week from 2:30 P.M. until very late in the evening. The group found it difficult at first to devise any new material, especially as the success of "The Dark Side of the Moon" had left all four physically and emotionally drained. Keyboardist Richard Wright later described these sessions as "falling within a difficult period", and Waters recalled them as "torturous". Mason found the process of multi-track recording drawn out