Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album) tribute to Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett, who left seven years earlier due to mental health problems. As with their previous album "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973), Pink Floyd used studio effects and synthesizers, and brought in guest singers: Roy Harper, who provided the lead vocals on "Have a Cigar", and Venetta Fields, who added backing vocals to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". "Wish You Were Here" topped record charts in the United Kingdom and the United States, and Harvest Records' parent company EMI was unable to print enough copies to meet demand. Although it initially received mixed
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