“I had a terrible habit of playing bits of songs by other people”: The Pink Floyd classic that Roger Waters was worried David Gilmour had stolen from someone else

Pink Floyd posing for a photograph in 1973.

Rewind to January 1975, and Abbey Road hummed with bad vibes as Pink Floyd embarked on sessions for their ninth album, Wish You Were Here. With guitarist and co-vocalist David Gilmour admitting to NME that 1973’s The Dark Side Of The Moon had left them “creatively trapped”, bassist/co-vocalist Roger Waters explaining the Wish You Were Here concept as working “with people whom you know aren’t there anymore”, and drummer Nick Mason quipping on Capital Radio that “I really did wish that I wasn’t there”, this latest album was the signpost to the great Floyd fallout.

And yet, even on a record that Gilmour remembers “started quite painfully”, the title track brought a moment of easy serendipity and happy synergy between the members.