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This song originally appeared on the Pink Floyd Release "Wish You Were Here" From Wikipedia: The initial plan was to record the three tracks they had played live on their 1974 European tour (which were "Raving and Drooling", "You Gotta Be Crazy" and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"), but bass player/singer/lyricist Roger Waters decided to change the vision of the album, split the two halves of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and write three shorter songs relating to the theme of absence, two of which ("Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a Cigar") were veiled attacks on the music business and the other (the title cut) was, like "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", about fallen Floyd member Syd Barrett. This move was, according to the Saucerful of Secrets book and in drummer Nick Mason's book Inside Out, one of the first debates between Waters and singer/guitarist David Gilmour. Gilmour wanted to record what the band had been playing live while Waters wanted to split "Shine On..." into two halves and create a concept album. Gilmour was outvoted three to one. Despite this disagreement, plus the hardships that occurred during the recording, Gilmour and keyboard player Rick Wright revealed in 1995, on the radio show In the Studio with Redbeard (which devoted an entire episode to the making of the album) that Wish You Were Here is their favorite Pink Floyd album.