The video mixes black-and-white footage of the group, otherworldly animation, and microscopic close-ups of a fertilized egg.
Fifty years after the release of Wish You Were Here of Pink Floydthe band returned earlier this month with a massive anniversary box set to celebrate the landmark 1975 album. About a week after the retrospective compilation arrived, the band treated fans to a music video for the beautiful title track — filled with everything from nostalgic images of the band in the studio and running through a subway station, to fanciful animations of a figurine floating through time and space.
The video, appropriately, opens with a crescent moon before immediately bursting into chaotic images of sperm running towards an egg, an eye filled with flames and lights streaking through the darkness, before cutting to intimate shots of the group. The rest of the video plays out like a fever dream before returning to a series of images echoing its beginning.
A time capsule from 1975
A review of WECB of the 50th anniversary box set rented the “time capsule anthologizing one of the strangest periods in the quartet’s life”. Among the studio rarities are two versions of “Wish You Were Here,” including one taken with David Gilmour on pedal steel guitar and an interpretation with a violin solo from the jazz virtuoso Stéphane Grappellithat the music critic Kory Grow described as “almost too beautiful for the song”.
The box set also includes the legendary tape of the concert at the LA Sports Arena recorded by the famous bootlegger Mike “The Mic” Millard — the most pristine recording of any concert on the 29-date tour Wish You Were Here of Pink Floyd.
As Grow notes: “Listening to the box set, you remember when they were young: they were heroes and ghosts, legends and martyrs, and, by the way, they were all 'Pink.' »
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