Pink Floyd's ninth studio album Wish You Were Here is commonly regarded as a masterpiece, but ahead of the release of a special 50th anniversary reissue of the record, drummer Nick Mason recalls that there was a lot of "fucking about" and frustration before the band hit their groove in the studio.
The band's previous album, 1973's The Dark Side Of The Moon, had topped the American charts and sold phenomenally well, making the four band members - Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Mason - wealthy and successful beyond their wildest dreams. This, however, brought new, unanticipated problems for the quartet.
"We'd reached the point we'd been aiming for since we were teenagers," Waters reflected to his band's biographer Mark Blake. "We'd achieved everything we ever wanted to do. There really was nothing more to do."
