Pink Floyd marks Wish You Were Here 50th with multiformat reissue

Pink Floyd will mark the 50th anniversary of their 1975 album Wish You Were Here with a multiformat reissue, Wish You Were Here 50, due December 12 via Sony Music. The release will include a newly issued early demo of Welcome to the Machine, a new Dolby Atmos mix of the original album and a trove of studio rarities and live recordings, packaged across digital, Blu-ray, 2CD, 3LP and a deluxe boxed set editions.

Sony and the band released The Machine Song Demo 2, Revisited, an early version of Welcome to the Machine, as a teaser Friday. The full collection comprises 25 bonus tracks: nine previously issued studio rarities and 16 live cuts recorded at the Los Angeles Sports Arena on April 26, 1975. The live material, captured by famed bootlegger Mike Millard, has been restored and remastered by Steven Wilson and is receiving its first official commercial release. Millard, who used surreptitious recording methods in the 1970s, died in 1994.

Longtime Pink Floyd collaborator James Guthrie prepared a new Dolby Atmos mix of the album, and he has also delivered a new stereo mix that pieces together Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts 1 through 9 for the first time in this configuration....