Other Recorded Versions By Pink Floyd
"Wish You Were Here" later appeared as the fifth track on A Collection of Great Dance Songs (with the radio intro following the end of a heavily edited "Shine On You Crazy Diamond") and as the 23rd track on the Echoes compilation (with the radio intro following "Arnold Layne", and at the end crossfading with "Jugband Blues").
A live recording included on the 1995 live album P•U•L•S•E was issued as a single/EP. The cover of the EP features two men whose faces are distorted by fish bowls, referring to the line "We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year". As of now, this is the last single released by Pink Floyd (although promos of "Echoes", "Young Lust" and "Money" (2003 edit for the 30th anniversary reissue of The Dark Side of the Moon) were made available to the press and radio stations).
In 2005, Waters and Eric Clapton performed the song at the Tsunami Aid concert, and in 2005's Live 8, Waters rejoined his former bandmates in London to perform it, along with three other classic Pink Floyd songs.
As part of the Why Pink Floyd...? campaign, the Experience and Immersion versions of the Wish You Were Here album include an alternate version of the song which includes a violin part played by Stéphane Grappelli, which was not used on the album version, though a tiny bit of the violin part can be heard as the song fades out.
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