Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here Ltd Edition Print

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Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" Ltd. Edition Print
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Limited edition (295), 21-color silkscreen fine art print made from the original artwork on Somerset UK White textured 300gsm heavy paper stock

Produced by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell (Hipgnosis)

Illustration by George Hardie

Signed and numbered in pencil by Storm Thorgerson

Printed by Coriander Studios, London

Print size 33"h x 25½"w; Image size 23"h x 17.5"w

Unmatted/unframed - sorry, but we do NOT currently stock a frame of this size. (click here for custom framing information)

The 1975 follow-up to their monster "Dark Side of the Moon" and dedicated to founding member Syd Barrett, the haunting central theme of ‘Shine on you Crazy Diamond’ is never far out of consciousness. ‘Welcome To The Machine’ introduces Waters’s fascination with pessimistic sci-fi views of the future. ‘Wish You Were Here’ itself is a sad and wistful indictment of insecurity. Storm Thorgerson recalls that one theme, indeed one word, prevailed during the recording of the album at Abbey Road Studios – ‘absence’. Nothing more poignantly, or powerfully illustrated this than the unexpected arrival of Syd Barrett at the studio during the vocal takes for ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’, having been absent for seven years.

Says Storm – “the handshake from the burning man is as empty or absent a gesture as you can get. The man is really on fire. He wore an asbestos suit under the cloth suit, which extends over the head, where a wig was attached. The first attempts at setting him alight were in the wrong wind direction. The flames were blown back and ignited his moustache for an instant. A close shave, one might say.’. . . .” The entire album design was then hidden from public view by an opaque black shrink-wrap. In effect, this cover, too, was absent.

$1,295.00

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