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Wish You Were Here Tour

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Legs
  
2

End date
  
July 5, 1975

Associated album
  
Wish You Were Here

Start date
  
1975

No. of shows
  
29

Leg
  
2

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Pink floyd wish you were here tour 01 raving and drooling sheep


The North American Tour, also referred to as the Wish You Were Here Tour, was a concert tour by the British progressive rock band Pink Floyd in 1975 in support of their forthcoming album Wish You Were Here. The tour was divided in two legs in the United States, West Coast and East Coast, and a gig in the UK at the Knebworth Festival.

Contents

On this tour debuted the song "Have a Cigar" and the "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" suite was divided in two parts with "Have a Cigar" between.

The last gig of the tour was as the headliner of 1975 Knebworth Festival, which also featured Steve Miller Band, Captain Beefheart and Roy Harper (who joined Pink Floyd on the stage to sing "Have a Cigar"). Knebworth was the last time the band would perform "Echoes" and the entire The Dark Side of the Moon album with Roger Waters.

Tour band

  • David Gilmour – vocals, guitar
  • Roger Waters – bass, vocals
  • Richard Wright – keyboards, vocals
  • Nick Mason – drums

    • Additional musicians:

  • Dick Parry – saxophone
  • The Blackberries (Venetta Fields & Carlena Williams) – backing vocals

    • Set list

    Part one
  • "Raving and Drooling" (early version of "Sheep")
  • "You've Got to Be Crazy" (early version of "Dogs")
  • "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)"
  • "Have a Cigar"
  • "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX)" (in Milwaukee, it was dropped)
    • Part two
  • The Dark Side of the Moon (entire album)
    • Encore
  • "Echoes"

    • References

    Wish You Were Here Tour Wikipedia
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