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 (novel) Wish You Were Here (novel) Wish You Were Here is a humorous novel by English author Tom Holt. It was first published in the U.K by Orbit Books in 1998. The moral of this book is 'Be careful what you wish for...it may come true'. A mischievous ghost of an ancient Native American princess, who has many guises, tricks visitors to Lake Chicopee (Iowa) into falling into it. Instead of drowning straight away, they are granted the one thing they were wishing for at the time of their 'accident'. Tom Holt weaves a multi-character, multi-plot comedy together, drawing upon many