Connecting the folk tradition to Dark Side of the Moon, Roger Waters closed out the first day of the 2015 Newport Folk Festival
Pink Floyd’s ninth studio Wish You Were Here will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year. The album, which spawned the iconic title track, features a memorable intro played on a 12-string guitar, which Roger Waters has revealed was the catalyst that inspired the rest of the song and set a melancholic tone for the rest of the album.
“It’s one of those strange songs that came to me very easily, because David Gilmour had been playing the riff, and I’ve been listening to it and going, ‘What’s that?’ And he played it. I said, ‘Play that again,’” he says in an interview with AXS TV.
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