“Shine On You Crazy Diamond” (from the English - “Shine, Crazy Diamond”) is a composition of the English prog-rock band Pink Floyd from the concept album Wish You Were Here (1975), which opens and ends this album and consists of nine parts. The music was written by Richard Wright , David Gilmore and Roger Waters . Written by Roger Waters.
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| Executor | Pink floyd | |||
| Album | Wish You Were Here | |||
| Date of issue | 1975 | |||
| Date Recorded | 1975 | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock | |||
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| Duration | 26:01 (all parts) 10:41 (version of A Collection of Great Dance Songs ) | |||
| Label |  Harvest / EMI  Columbia ( LP ) Capitol (per. ) | |||
| Author | Wright , Gilmore , Waters | |||
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| Wish You Were Here Album Track List | ||||
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In 2011, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" took second place in the list of "25 best songs of all time in the genre of progressive rock" according to the site PopMatters [1] .
Content
About composition
The song is dedicated to former band member Sid Barrett , who left the band in 1968 due to an unstable mental state caused by drug use. She named Shine On Pink Floyd and Crazy Diamond Sid Barrett.
It was originally planned that “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” would completely occupy one side of Wish You Were Here , like “ Atom Heart Mother ” or “ Echoes ”, but then the composition was divided into two parts used at the beginning and end of the album.
In addition to the original version, with the song split into two halves, there are two more versions included in the albums A Collection of Great Dance Songs and Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd : the first one lasts 10 minutes 55 seconds and contains the entire first part, a bit cropped the second, entirely the third and fourth (with text), the transition from the sixth to the seventh, the seventh (with the text) and the edited transition from the seventh to the eighth, ending with radio effects from “ Wish You Were Here ”; the version with Echoes is essentially the first seven parts that have not been changed, in the same transition from the seventh to the eighth part the ticking of the clock from “ Time ” sounds.
Record Members
- Roger Waters - bass, vocals, optional electric guitar
- David Gilmore - guitars, backing vocals, additional bass, EMS Synthi AKS
- Richard Wright - keyboards and synthesizers, backing vocals
- Nick Mason - drums, percussion
- guest musicians
- - saxophones
- , Karlina Williams - backing vocals.
Notes
- ↑ Sean Murphy. The 25 Best Progressive Rock Songs of All Time . PopMatters (05/23/2011). Date of treatment May 27, 2011. Archived March 23, 2012.