{"id":30338,"date":"2024-09-12T18:02:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T18:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-12-1975-pink-floyd-releases-wish-you-were-here\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T18:02:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T18:02:25","slug":"on-this-day-sept-12-1975-pink-floyd-releases-wish-you-were-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-12-1975-pink-floyd-releases-wish-you-were-here\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Sept. 12, 1975: Pink Floyd releases &#8216;Wish You Were Here&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-11\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag_0.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Sept. 12, 1975 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Pink Floyd\u00a0<\/strong>released their ninth studio album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Wish You Were Here<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album featured the nine-part \u201cShine On You Crazy Diamond,\u201d which was a tribute to founding member\u00a0<strong>Syd\u00a0Barrett<\/strong>, who\u2019d been fired seven years earlier due to his drug use and mental health issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album\u2019s title track became a classic rock staple and has often made lists of the greatest songs of all time. Other songs on the album include \u201cHave a Cigar&#8221; and &#8220;Welcome to the Machine.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Wish You Were Here\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">went on to be a huge hit for the band, reaching #1 in both the U.S. and U.K. It became Pink Floyd\u2019s fastest-selling album ever and went on to sell 20 million copies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Sept. 12, 1975 &#8230; Pink Floyd\u00a0released their ninth studio album,\u00a0Wish You Were Here. The album featured the nine-part \u201cShine On You Crazy Diamond,\u201d which was a tribute to founding member\u00a0Syd\u00a0Barrett, who\u2019d been fired seven years earlier due to his drug use and mental health issues. The album\u2019s<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-12-1975-pink-floyd-releases-wish-you-were-here\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}