# "Wish You Were Here" is 50 years old today **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [September 13, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-you-were-here-is-50-years-old-today/1023007 "2025-09-13T03:20:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-you-were-here-is-50-years-old-today/1023007/21 "2025-09-15T23:03:54Z")
Badfinger had them beat by a year with an album of exactly the same title. It’s quite a good album, too. > **[Wish You Were Here (Badfinger album)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_You_Were_Here_(Badfinger_album))** > > Wish You Were Here is the seventh studio album by the Welsh rock band Badfinger and their third consecutive album produced by Chris Thomas. It was recorded in the spring of 1974 at Colorado's Caribou Ranch and released in November of that year on Warner Bros. Records. Wish You Were Here was the second and last album the band released on the Warner Bros. label. > Although the album received a favourable review in Rolling Stone magazine and is sometimes considered to be the band's best work, it wa... ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-you-were-here-is-50-years-old-today/1023007/22 "2025-09-15T23:29:14Z")
Years ago in Lower Antelope Canyon I was taken by surprise when I heard someone playing “Wish You Were Here” on an acoustic guitar . There was a Navajo teenager busking in an alcove, not singing, just playing softly, not being obtrusive at all. It actually sounded pretty good in that environment. I gave him a couple of bucks. Interestingly enough, I found a [stock photo](https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/indian-man-playing-guitar-in-lower-antelope-canyon-arizona-usa-gm459252471-22630088) that shows exactly what it was like. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-you-were-here-is-50-years-old-today/1023007/23 "2025-09-18T06:00:03Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > I just kept flipping that tape over and over as I drove. I had a Sanyo with _Auto-Reverse!_ ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-you-were-here-is-50-years-old-today/1023007/24 "2025-09-18T13:48:52Z")
For me, a lot of music can be just listened to passively in the background while I do something else. But “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” is kind of an event for me. I will put it on and lay down in a dark room just to listen to it without any distractions. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-you-were-here-is-50-years-old-today/1023007/25 "2025-09-18T14:44:14Z")
I’ve been seeing some promo for an upcoming TV show, and clearly the background music is the instrumental parts of Wish You Were Here. But the music would have nothing to do with the show, since it appears to be about violent drug gangs, so I wonder how it got there. ---
**Author:** ![Bubblethegumkid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubblethegumkid/32/19893_2.png) [@Bubblethegumkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubblethegumkid)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-you-were-here-is-50-years-old-today/1023007/26 "2025-09-28T07:00:56Z")
Ditto! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-you-were-here-is-50-years-old-today/1023007.md?page=1)