<P> "Wish You Were Here" is the title track on Pink Floyd's 1975 album Wish You Were Here . David Gilmour and Roger Waters collaborated to write the music, and Gilmour sang the lead vocal . </P> <P> In 2011, the song was ranked No. 324 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time . </P> <P> In the original album version, the song segues from "Have a Cigar" as if a radio had been tuned away from one station, through several others (including a radio play and one playing the opening of the finale movement of Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony), and finally to a new station where "Wish You Were Here" is beginning . The radio was recorded from Gilmour's car radio . He performed the intro on a twelve - string guitar, processed to sound like it was playing through an AM radio, and then overdubbed a fuller - sounding acoustic guitar solo . This passage was mixed to sound as though a guitarist were listening to the radio and playing along . As the acoustic part becomes more complex, the' radio broadcast' fades away and Gilmour's voice enters, becoming joined by the full band . </P> <P> The intro riff is repeated several times, before Gilmour plays further solos with scat singing accompaniment . A third verse follows, featuring an increasingly expressive vocal from Gilmour and audible backing vocals . At the end of the recorded song, the final solo crossfades with wind sound effects, and finally segues into the second section of the multi-part suite "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". </P>

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