{"id":102698,"date":"2025-10-28T17:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T17:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/102698\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T17:49:10","slug":"pink-floyd-album-honored-by-british-poet-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/102698\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Floyd Album Honored by British Poet Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pink Floyd<\/a>\u2019s 1975 album Wish You Were Here<\/a> is the subject of a new poem by British poet laureate Simon Armitage.<\/p>\n

Entitled \u201cDear Pink Floyd,\u201d the piece \u2013 which can be heard in the video below \u2013 will appear in the 50th anniversary edition<\/a> of the album, arriving on Dec. 12.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a personal piece from lifelong fan Armitage, commissioned by the band. He was appointed poet laureate, a position that dates back to 1616, by Queen Elizabeth II in 2019.<\/p>\n

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His words include the definition of the album as \u201ca time-capsule treasure chest message in a bottle, tied to a life buoy, thrown on a life raft from a ghost ship.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was thinking about the album and their noise, and what effect that has had on people right across the globe,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cI didn\u2019t know whether I could put into words what that music sounded like. I only get involved with projects if I think I can\u2019t do them, so this was a natural invitation.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cI wanted to write something that was album-shaped, that would fit onto the side of an LP and bleed right to the margins of a square.\u201d<\/p>\n

Armitage, 62, recalled being a member of the generation that \u201ccaught the tail-end of punk,\u201d saying it was \u201ca sort of a musical resetting of the clock for me. That\u2019s how I wanted everything at that time.<\/p>\n

Pink Floyd Album Still Gives Simon Armitage Shivers<\/p>\n

\u201cThen eventually you get to 17, 18, and you want something more introspective. That came in the form of Pink Floyd.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was so profound, so thought-provoking. There aren\u2019t many artistic experiences in the form of noise that send shivers up my spine and make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. But when I put Wish You Were Here on as a record, and it begins, I get that feeling every single time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Dear Pink Floyd\u2019 by Simon Armitage<\/p>\n

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Gallery Credit: Nick DeRiso<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pink Floyd\u2019s 1975 album Wish You Were Here is the subject of a new poem by British poet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409,43],"class_list":["post-102698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}