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Pink Floyd is celebrating the 50th anniversary of their ninth studio album, Wish You Were Here, by reissuing the album with a whole host of bonus material.

Wish You Were Here 50 will be released in a variety of formats, including a digital release that features the original album mixed in Dolby Atmos. It will include 25 bonus tracks, with nine studio rarities, including six tracks that have never been released before.

The bonus material also includes 16 live bootleg recordings from a concert at the Los Angeles Sports Arena on April 26, 1975, which are getting their first-ever official release. The audio has been restored and remastered by producer Steven Wilson.

Wish You Were Here 50 will also be released as a three-LP or two-CD set, with the original album and the rarities; a Blu-ray with Dolby Atmos and 5.1 Surround mixes of the album; three concert films from the band’s 1975 tour; and a short film by famed art designer and Hipgnosis co-founder Storm Thorgerson.

And there will be a deluxe box set that includes all the material on the two-CD or three-LP editions (in clear vinyl), as well as the Blu-ray, an additional clear vinyl LP with a 1974 Live at Wembley concert, a replica Japanese 7-inch single of “Have A Cigar”/”Welcome to the Machine,” a hard cover book and more.

As a preview of the bonus material on Wish You Were Here 50, Pink Floyd has released “The Machine Song,” a previously unheard demo of what would go on to become the album’s track “Welcome to the Machine.”

All formats will be released Dec. 12 and are available for preorder now.

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Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor are set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band’s iconic tune “Bohemian Rhapsody” with a very special performance.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers will appear at BBC Radio’s Last Night of the Proms, which is described as the “biggest party in classical music,” to perform an orchestral arrangement of the song with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and chorus, the BBC singers and National Youth Choir.

“What a splendid way to celebrate a Queen masterpiece in its 50th year: Bohemian Rhapsody performed with a 100-piece BBC Symphony Orchestra and a choir of over 150 singers – on the most prestigious night of the year in The Royal Albert Hall,” May and Taylor shared on Instagram. “Freddie will be loving it!” they added, referring to the band’s late frontman Freddie Mercury.

The event takes place at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Saturday at 7 p.m. BST, and will air live on BBC Radio 3, and also on BBC TV.

The almost six-minute “Bohemian Rhapsody” was the lead single off Queen’s 1975 album, A Night at the Opera, and went on to sell over 6 million copies worldwide.

The song had a resurgence in popularity in 1992 after appearing in the film Wayne’s World. After the release of the 2018 Queen biopic, also named Bohemian Rhapsody, the song became the most streamed song of the 20th century and was certified Diamond by the Recording Academy.

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Do you remember the 21st night of September? That’s the night you’ll be able to watch Earth, Wind & Fire in a new TV special.

CBS will air A Grammy Salute to Earth, Wind & Fire Live: The 21st Night of September, celebrating the music of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group. The special will feature Earth, Wind & Fire performing with the LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, along with special guests Stevie Wonder, the Jonas Brothers, Jon Batiste and Janelle Monáe. The special airs at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

Then on Oct. 5, CBS airs A Grammy Salute to Cyndi Lauper: Live from the Hollywood Bowl. It was filmed over two nights at the end of Cyndi’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun farewell tour, and features appearances by, among others, Joni Mitchell, Cher, John Legend, SZA, country star Mickey Guyton and New Orleans legend Trombone Shorty. There will also be video tributes, including one from Brandi Carlile.

The Cyndi special also airs at 8 p.m. ET/PT. If you have have Paramount+ Premium, you can watch it the same time it airs on CBS; if not, you can watch it the next day on Paramount+.

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On This Day, Sept. 12, 1975 …

Fifty years ago, Pink Floyd released their ninth studio album, Wish You Were Here.

The album featured the nine-part “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” which was a tribute to founding member Syd Barrett, who’d been fired seven years earlier due to his drug use and mental health issues.

The album’s title track became a classic rock staple and has often made lists of the greatest songs of all time. Other songs on the album include “Have a Cigar” and “Welcome to the Machine.”

Wish You Were Here went on to be a huge hit for the band, reaching #1 in both the U.S. and U.K. It became Pink Floyd’s fastest-selling album ever and went on to sell 20 million copies.

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The Black Crowes are revisiting their third studio album, 1994’s Amorica.

To celebrate the album’s 30th anniversary, the band is set to release a super-deluxe box set featuring new mixes of the original album, along 14 previously unreleased recordings.

The bonus material includes Tallest, nine newly mixed songs recorded during the sessions for Tall, an unreleased album the band worked on before Amorica but was scrapped by Chris Robinson and Rich Robinson. 

The box set also includes The Marie Laveau Sessions, featuring seven songs Chris and Rich worked on during a soundcheck on their High As The Moon tour and then recorded in New Orleans on a day off from the trek. There will also be four recordings from a live broadcast from AIR Studios in London.

“Amorica was about breaking free and doing things on our own terms,” said Chris. “It wasn’t about fitting into what was happening in music at the time. It was about trusting our instincts – and 30 years later, that’s still who we are.”

Rich adds, “The bond between us, even when tested, always came back to the music. That’s what Amorica represents – our belief in ourselves and in this band.”

As a preview of the deluxe edition, the Crowes have released “Bitter, Bitter You,” a previously unreleased song from the Tall sessions.

The Amorica super-deluxe box set will be released Nov. 14 as a five-LP or three-CD set. There will also be two-LP and one-CD editions.

All formats are available for preorder now.

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