Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd - MP3 instrumental karaoke

Pink Floyd paid tribute to their late visionary founder Syd Barrett – who retired from music and the public eye in 1972 due to mental health issues – on their 1975 classic album Wish You Were Here, a takedown of the music industry that reached Number 1 in the US and the UK. Boasting one of the most atmospheric song intros to ever have graced rock music with its presence, with twelve-string guitar and AM radio-sounding trickery, the LP's title track was written by David Gilmour and Roger Waters, with the former singing the lead vocal as he explores the theme of alienation. "How I wish, how I wish you were here / We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl year after year / Running over the same old ground, what have we found? / The same old fears, wish you were here", cry the band. Peppered with acoustic guitar, effects-laden electric and bursting with emotion,"Wish You Were Here" is an intricate prog-rock behemoth from one of rock music's enduring greats.