Fifty years after the release of “Wish You Were Here”, Pink Floyd has unveiled an official music video for the iconic title track to the 1975 album. The video arrives as part of the British psychedelic rock band’s continued celebration of Wish You Were Here‘s 50th anniversary, which saw an expanded reissue earlier this month.
Since “Wish You Were Here” predated MTV by six years, the song never got the official music video treatment until now. Directed by Justin Daashuur Hopkins, who has helmed videos for Coldplay and Portugal. The Man, the video feels surprisingly authentic for something released so long after the original song. Alongside lots of archival, early ’70s footage of the band, the new visual accompaniment blends in appropriately psychedelic video of a solar eclipse, eyeballs, embryonic fertilization, and other stock imagery that avoids feeling like just another franchise reboot decades after the original release.
The new video coincides with the release of Wish You Were Here 50, featuring the original album with a new Dolby Atmos mix plus 25 bonus tracks. Among the newly added material are six previously unreleased studio demos, additional rarities, and 16 live recordings from Floyd’s April 26th, 1975 show in L.A., released officially for the first time. The album’s expanded Blu-ray version also includes three concert films from the band’s 1975 tour, plus a short film by legendary Hipgnosis founder and longtime Pink Floyd collaborator Storm Thorgerson.
Check out the new, official music video for “Wish You Were Here” and pick up the full Pink Floyd reissue here in a variety of formats.
Pink Floyd — “Wish You Were” [Official Video]