Hi! My name is Ickx. Can I get some help?
Lee. I'm the warehouse manager. You look strange. What brings you here?
Lee, I need water!
OMG, you're on fire! Get your ass outta' here right now! We're laden with 700 tons of sodium cynanide - and we don't have a permit! Are you Uighur?
Aaahhhhh - Tibetan!
No, no, no! 'Twas a suicide thing. I lost on stocks!
Shit! I have 5,000 Toyotas out there! Are you thirsty?
No, no, no! I changed my mind. I forgot I have to attend the parade on Thursday!
See those empty buildings right there? Fast! Careful of the glass! CCTV is SOP, but they'll delete you anyway!
Good luck!
Here's the original album cover art design.
No. 38, The Virgin All-Time Album Top 1000; No. 62, Billboard, The 300 Best-Selling Albums of All Time;
No. 63, Rate Your Music, The 100 Greatest Albums of All Time; No. 211, Rolling Stone, The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
No. 41, Rolling Stone, The 100 Greatest Album Covers.
Design and photography by Hipgnosis (Storm Thorgerson and Audrey Powell), Peter Christopherson, Jeff Smith, Howard Bartrop, and Richard Manning, design assistants.
Graphics by George Hardie. Album produced by Pink Floyd. Harvest 1975.
Wish You Were Here was sold in one of the more elaborate packages to accompany a Pink Floyd album. Storm Thorgerson had accompanied the band on their 1974 tour,
and had given serious thought to the meaning of the lyrics, eventually deciding that the songs were concerned with "unfulfilled presence". This theme of absence was
reflected in the ideas produced by his long hours spent brainstorming with the band. The album's cover image was inspired by the idea that people tend to conceal
their true feelings, for fear of "getting burned", and thus two businessmen were pictured shaking hands, one man on fire. Two stuntmen were used (Ronnie Rondell
and Danny Rogers), one dressed in a fire-retardant suit covered by a business suit. His head was protected by a hood, underneath a wig. The photograph was taken
at the Warner Bros. studios in Los Angeles. Initially the wind was blowing in the wrong direction, and the flames were forced into Rondell's face, burning his
moustache. The two stuntmen changed positions, and the image was later reversed. Full article
Wish You Were Here is the second Pink Floyd album to use a conceptual theme written entirely by Roger Waters. It reflects his feeling that the camaraderie that had
served the band previously was, by then, largely absent. The album begins with a long instrumental preamble and segues into the lyrics for "Shine On You Crazy
Diamond", a tribute to Syd Barrett, whose mental breakdown had forced him to leave the group seven years earlier. Barrett is fondly recalled with lines such as
"Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun" and "You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon". More
(A) Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V) - Welcome to the Machine
(B) Have a Cigar - Wish You Were Here - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX)
