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Simon Armitage Debuts ‘Dear Pink Floyd’ as Band Details ‘Wish You Were Here 50

The band posted his YouTube reading as the poem joins the Dec. 12 multi-format edition.

Overview

  • Wish You Were Here 50 arrives December 12 via Sony in a Deluxe box, Blu-ray, 3LP, 2CD, and digital release.
  • Bonus material includes 25 tracks with six previously unreleased recordings and 16 live bootlegs from the April 26, 1975 Los Angeles concert receiving their first official release.
  • Pink Floyd commissioned Armitage, the U.K. poet laureate and a lifelong fan, to write the new poem for the anniversary.
  • Armitage describes the piece as album-shaped and continuous to mirror the record’s sound, and he reads it in a new video shared by the band.
  • The digital edition features the original album mixed in Dolby Atmos alongside archival additions.