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Wish You Were Here
1975 · 5:08
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Have a Cigar

Pink Floyd
8.7/ 10 · 19 ratings
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  • VinylVortex5/4/2026

    "Which one's Pink?" lives rent-free in my head. Roy Harper absolutely nails the cynicism.

  • FloydHead★ 105/4/2026

    The funk groove on this is criminally underrated. That clavinet riff carries the whole track.

  • OrionMoss5/4/2026

    Right? Wright was operating at peak telepathy with Gilmour through this whole album.

  • EclipseRoar★ 105/4/2026

    Took me twenty years to realize this isn't sung by the band — Roy Harper crashed the session and just stayed. Mind blown.

  • AnalogGhost★ 95/4/2026

    Always skipped from Shine On to Wish You Were Here as a kid. Came back as an adult — this song is the whole album's thesis.

  • DailyFloydReviewer★ 85/4/2026

    Roy Harper crashing the session and changing the song forever is one of those happy accidents that defines an album.

    • About this song

    Have a Cigar: much like "Welcome To The Machine," this song is about corporations and how they control their musicians.

    Source: www.songfacts.com ·

    Songwriters

    Roger Waters

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