Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album) "The Dark Side of the Moon", but critics displeased about being denied access backstage savaged the performance. "Wish You Were Here" was sold in one of the more elaborate packages to accompany a Pink Floyd album. Storm Thorgerson had accompanied the band on their 1974 tour, and had given serious thought to the meaning of the lyrics, eventually deciding that the songs were, in general, concerned with "unfulfilled presence", rather than Barrett's illness. This theme of absence was reflected in the ideas produced by his long hours spent brainstorming with the band. Thorgerson had noted that Roxy Music's "Country Life"
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