Wish You Were Here Tour

Wish You Were Here Tour

Tour by Pink Floyd
Associated album	Wish You Were Here
Start date	8 April 1975
End date	5 July 1975
Legs	3
No. of shows	29
Pink Floyd concert chronology

The Wish You Were Here Tour, also referred to as the North American Tour, was a concert tour by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd in 1975 in support of their then-forthcoming album Wish You Were Here. The tour was divided in two legs in the United States, West Coast and East Coast, and a gig in the UK at the Knebworth Festival.

On this tour debuted the song "Have a Cigar" and the "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" suite was divided in two parts with "Have a Cigar" between.

The last gig of the tour was as the headliner of 1975 Knebworth Festival, which also featured Steve Miller Band, Captain Beefheart and Roy Harper (who joined Pink Floyd on the stage to sing "Have a Cigar"). Knebworth was the last time the band would perform "Echoes" and the entire The Dark Side of the Moon album with Roger Waters.

Setlist

Rotating flower-petal mirror ball, used to reflect spotlights during concerts from 1975 to 1977; displayed at the Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains exhibition

The band performed two sets for the tour. The first set included songs from Wish You Were Here and early versions of songs from Animals under working titles. The second set consisted the entire The Dark Side of the Moon album with "Echoes" performed as an encore.

First set

1. "Raving and Drooling"
2. "You've Got to Be Crazy"
3. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts I-V"
4. "Have a Cigar"
5. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts VI-IX"

Second set: The Dark Side of the Moon

6. "Speak to Me"
7. "Breathe"
8. "On the Run"
9. "Time / Breathe (Reprise)"
10. "The Great Gig in the Sky"
11. "Money"
12. "Us and Them"
13. "Any Colour You Like"
14. "Brain Damage"
15. "Eclipse"

Encore

16. "Echoes"

Tour dates

List of 1975 concerts showing date, city, country and venue

Date	City	Country	Venue
8 April	Vancouver	Canada	Pacific Coliseum
10 April	Seattle	United States	Seattle Center Coliseum
12 April	Daly City		Cow Palace
13 April
17 April	Denver		Denver Coliseum
19 April	Tucson		Tucson Convention Center
20 April	Tempe		ASU Activity Center
21 April	San Diego		San Diego Sports Arena
23 April	Los Angeles		Los Angeles Sports Arena
24 April
25 April
26 April
27 April
7 June	Atlanta		Atlanta Stadium
9 June	Landover		Capital Centre
10 June
12 June	Philadelphia		The Spectrum
13 June
14 June	Jersey City		Roosevelt Stadium
16 June	Uniondale		Nassau Coliseum
17 June
18 June	Boston		Boston Garden
20 June	Pittsburgh		Three Rivers Stadium
22 June	Milwaukee		Milwaukee County Stadium
23 June	Detroit		Olympia Stadium
24 June
26 June	Montreal	Canada	Autostade
28 June	Hamilton		Ivor Wynne Stadium
5 July	Knebworth	England	Knebworth House

Notes

Personnel

Pink Floyd

• David Gilmour – vocals, guitar
• Roger Waters – bass, vocals
• Richard Wright – keyboards, vocals
• Nick Mason – drums

Additional musicians

• Dick Parry – saxophone
• The Blackberries (Venetta Fields & Carlena Williams) – backing vocals

References

Sources

• Fitch, Vernon (2005). The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia. Collector's Guide Publishing. ISBN 978-1-894959-24-7.
• Shea, Stuart; Floyd, Pink (2009). Pink Floyd FAQ: Everything Left to Know ... and More!. Backbeat Books. ISBN 978-1-61713-394-7.
• Mulligan, Stephen (2013). Were You There?: Over 300 Wonderful, Weird, and Wacky Moments from Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium. Dorrance Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4809-0502-3.
• Romano, Will (2020). Wish You Were Here: Inside Pink Floyd's Musical Milestone. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4930-5076-5.

External links

• Brain Damage.co.uk