Wish You Were Here Tour

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.

Wish You Were Here Tour
Tour by Pink Floyd
Associated albumWish You Were Here
Start date8 April 1975
End date5 July 1975
Legs3
No. of shows29
Pink Floyd concert chronology

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").[1] Knebworth was the last time the band would perform "Echoes" and the entire The Dark Side of the Moon album with Roger Waters.[2]

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 were songs from Wish You Were Here while the following album Animals, were performed under working titles. The second set consisted the entire The Dark Side of the Moon album with "Echoes" performed as an encore.[3]

First set[4]

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

Second set

  1. "Speak to Me"
  2. "Breathe"
  3. "On the Run"
  4. "Time/Breathe (Reprise)"
  5. "The Great Gig in the Sky"
  6. "Money"
  7. "Us and Them"
  8. "Any Colour You Like"
  9. "Brain Damage"
  10. "Eclipse"

Encore

  1. "Echoes"

Tour dates
Date[4] City Country Venue
North America – Leg 1
8 April 1975VancouverCanadaPacific Coliseum
10 April 1975SeattleUnited StatesSeattle Center Coliseum
12 April 1975Daly CityCow Palace
13 April 1975
17 April 1975DenverDenver Coliseum
19 April 1975TucsonTucson Convention Center
20 April 1975TempeASU Activity Center
21 April 1975San DiegoSan Diego Sports Arena
23 April 1975[5]Los AngelesLos Angeles Sports Arena
24 April 1975[5]
25 April 1975[5]
26 April 1975[5]
27 April 1975[5]
North America – Leg 2
7 June 1975Atlanta United States Atlanta Stadium
9 June 1975LandoverCapital Centre
10 June 1975
12 June 1975PhiladelphiaThe Spectrum
13 June 1975
14 June 1975Jersey CityRoosevelt Stadium
16 June 1975UniondaleNassau Coliseum
17 June 1975
18 June 1975BostonBoston Garden
20 June 1975PittsburghThree Rivers Stadium
22 June 1975MilwaukeeMilwaukee County Stadium
23 June 1975DetroitOlympia Stadium
24 June 1975
26 June 1975MontrealCanadaAutostade
28 June 1975HamiltonIvor Wynne Stadium
Europe
5 July 1975StevenageEnglandKnebworth Festival

Personnel

Additional musicians

References

Citations
  1. Fitch 2005, p. 132.
  2. Shea & Floyd 2009.
  3. Mulligan 2013.
  4. Romano 2020.
  5. "Late News: Inside Track". Billboard. Vol. 87, no. 8. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 22 February 1975. p. 74. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 10 July 2022. Pink Floyd will play an unprecedented five-night stand at the Los Angeles Sports Arena.

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