Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Most bands are lucky to release one album that remains popular years after it first arrived. Pink ... once. Wish You Were Here ...

Immediately upon release, Pink Floyd described Wish You Were Here as an album about “absence,” and that central “absence” was Barrett. As soon as Waters wrote the words to accompany ...

Roger Waters may have wanted Pink Floyd to end with his departure from the group in the mid-1980s. David Gilmour had other ...