Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd song) "Pulse" was issued as a single/EP. Its intro replicates the sound of the original, semi-ambient intro. The cover of the EP features two men whose faces are distorted by fish bowls, referring to the line "We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year". The "Experience" edition of Wish You Were Here from the 2011 Why Pink Floyd...? re-release campaign includes a version of "Wish You Were Here" prominently featuring Stéphane Grappelli on violin. The recording of Grappelli, which Nick Mason thought he may have recorded over in subsequent sessions for Wish You Were Here, was
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