Hottest 100 Songs of all time No. 16 Pink Floyd Wish you were here 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 Tchaikovskys Fourth Symphony), and finally to a new station where Wish You Were Here is beginning. The radio was recorded from Gilmours car radio. He performed the intro on a twelve-string guitar, processed to sound like it was playing through a car AM radio, and then overdubbed a fuller sounding acoustic guitar solo. This passage was mixed to sound as though the guitarist was sitting in a car, listening to the radio; it also contains a whine that slowly changes pitch—emulating the electro-magnetic interference from the engine of a car as it accelerates and decelerates. The intro riff is repeated several times and reprised when Gilmour plays further solos with scat singing accompaniment. At the end of the recorded song, the final solo crossfades with wind sound effects (reminiscent of One of These Days from the 1971 album Meddle), and finally segues into the second section of the multi-part suite Shine On You Crazy Diamond. The song is in the key of G major. The song includes the line: Can you tell a green field/From a cold steel rail?, which is a reference to Syd Barretts solo song, If Its In You, from The Madcap Laughs album (Hold you tighter so close/Yes you are/Please hold on to the steel rail).
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