PINK FLOYD - Wish You Were Here (Germany) 12" Vinyl LP Album

Collector's notes for PINK FLOYD - Wish You Were Here Germany ( detailed background information on the persons working on this album)

This PINK FLOYD - Wish You Were Here Germany can be identified / distinguished by the following attributes :

Album Front Cover Details:

Packaging:

• This album comes with a custom inner sleeve made from light cardboard

How can the album cover be distinguished from other versions of this album

• The album cover shows a photo of two men shaking hands
• There is NO band-name and NO album-title on the front cover
• There is NO catalog-nr on the front cover

Album Back Cover Details:

• In the upper right corner of the album back cover are the catalognr's for the LP and for the Cassette editions:

1 C 064-96 918
1 C 244-96 918

• There is NO barcode on the back cover

Inner Sleeve Details:

On one side of the custom inner sleeve near the center bottom, we can see:

HARVEST (Logo)
EMI Electrola (Logo)
EMI Electrola GMBH - All rights reserved. Printed in Germany by Druckhaus Maack KG, 5880 Lüdenscheid (Note: this line will be different compared to other releases of "Wish You Were Here" from Germany)

There is NO catalognr on the inner sleeve (Note: other versions may have a catalognr in the bottom right corner)

Album Record Label Details:

• The label has black and blue color and a YELLOW dot. (Note: other releases of this album can have a white dot)
• There is NO label code on the record's label
• The Rights Society "GEMA" (boxed) is printed near the center in the direction of 5 o'clock.
• The catalognr is printed near 4 o'clock

1 C 064-96 918

• Is the catalognr the same as on the cover`?
• The rim-texts on the label run from 1 o'clock to 9 o'clock and 7 o'clock to 3 o'clock. The rim-texts are printed in the German language
• Near the bottom of the label, at 6 o'clock is the Harvest company logo
• Near the bottom of the label, at 7 o'clock there is:

(P) 1975
EMI Records
Ltd

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Album Production information:

The album: "PINK FLOYD - Wish You Were Here Germany" was produced by: Pink Floyd

Sound/Recording Engineer(s): Brian Humphries

Assistent Sound Engineer: Peter James

This album was recorded at: Abbey Road Studios, London

Album cover design: Hipgnosis, Peter James

Design assistants: Howard Bartrop, Jeff Smith , Peter Christopherson, Richard Manning

Album cover photography: Hipgnosis

Note: Hipgnosis was an English art design group based in London that specialised in creating cover art for the albums of rock musicians and bands. Notable commissions included work for Pink Floyd, T. Rex, the Pretty Things, Black Sabbath, UFO, 10cc, Bad Company, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Scorpions, Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Def Leppard, Paul McCartney & Wings, the Alan Parsons Project, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Electric Light Orchestra, the Police, Rainbow, Styx, Pezband, XTC and Al Stewart.

Here is a web-page with a gallery of album covers created by Hipgnosis

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Personnel/Band Members and Musicians on: PINK FLOYD - Wish You Were Here Germany

Band-members, Musicians and Performers
• Roger Waters - bass, vocals
• Nick Mason - percusssion
• Dave Gilmour - guitar, vocals
• Rick Wright - keyboards, vocals
• Backing vocals: Carlena Williams, Venetta Fields

Complete Track-listing of the album "PINK FLOYD - Wish You Were Here Germany"

The detailed tracklist of this record "PINK FLOYD - Wish You Were Here Germany" is:

Side One:
1. Shine on your Crazy Diamond (Part One, Two, Three, Four, Five)
2. Welcome to the Machine

Side Two:
1. Have a Cigar
2. Wish You Were Here
3. Shine Ony Your Crazy Diamond (Part Six, Seven, Eight, Nine)