在那告別童年、渴盼長大,急著想像人生種種深沈黑暗悲壯的青春期,誰能不愛Pink Floyd呢?他們那些總是悲壯莫名,永遠雄渾深沈充滿大敘事語調的長長的歌,為上千上萬上億生活乏善可陳然而如饑似渴的靈魂提供了想像的材料,我們凡庸的人生,便因為一張搖滾樂專輯,倏然迸放史詩的光。
1975年9月12日,Pink Floyd發行第九張錄音室專輯Wish You Were Here,這是他們在做出人類史上最成功的專輯The Dark Side of the Moon之後,頂著無比的壓力,歷經靈感枯竭、自我質疑、團員反目,足足花了兩年半才交出的成績單。專輯以一首全長近半小時的鉅作貫穿頭尾,拆成兩半,分別放在開篇與壓軸。中間穿插兩首對唱片工業充滿幻滅的諷喻憤怒之歌,以及一首悲壯淒清的標題曲。
這張專輯居然讓Pink Floyd度過了「後Dark Side of the Moon」時期的危機,成為又一張重量級歷史銘盤。專輯臨近殺青,團員齊聚Abbey Road錄音室為那首獻給前團長Syd Barrett的鉅作Shine On You Crazy Diamond混音,幾年不見的Syd居然無預警出現在錄音室裡,而且沒有人認出他:昔日一頭長髮的瘦削青年,胖了好大一圈,光頭無眉,拎著一隻塑膠袋,斷斷續續地喃喃自語,大家聽不太懂他在說什麼。當David Gilmour終於認出這位老團長,他和Roger Waters都哭了......。
還有許多故事,聽聽這期節目便知分曉。
播出曲目(粗體加 * 號為專輯正式版):
Wish You Were Here (alternate take, with Stéphane Grappelli on violin, from “The Immersion Box Set”, 2011)
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Live at Wembley, 1974, from “The Immersion Box Set”, 2011)
Astronomy Domine (from “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn”, 1967)
Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part I-V (album version)*
Welcome to the Machine (early alternate take, from the bootleg “The Extraction Tapes”, 2014)
Welcome to the Machine (album version)*
Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part VI-IX (early alternate take, from the bootleg “The Extraction Tapes”, 2014)
Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part VI-IX (album version)*
Have a Cigar (alternate take with Roger Waters and David Gilmour on vocals, from “The Immersion Box Set”, 2011)
Have a Cigar (album version with Roy Harper on vocals)*
Wish You Were Here (album version)*
Wish You Were Here (Live 8, Hyde Park, London, 7/2/2005)