Wish You Were Here was going to be tough ... echoing off the stucco walls like the sinister guitar riff from “Lucifer Sam.” It had a profound effect on Roger Waters and David Gilmour, who ...

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 Gilmour’s guitar riff ...

Of course, a list like this would not be complete without Pink Floyd’s ode to Syn Barrett, “Wish You Were Here ... out of a funk with its funky guitar riff, a bluesy harmonica solo and ...