{"id":8314,"date":"2025-09-10T23:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T23:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/8314\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T23:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T23:16:08","slug":"pink-floyd-blacks-out-albums-ahead-of-wish-you-were-here-50th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/8314\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Floyd Blacks Out Albums Ahead of ‘Wish You Were Here’ 50th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the 50th anniversary of Wish You Were Here<\/a> just around the corner, Pink Floyd<\/a> is dropping cryptic clues \u2014 and fans think they know what\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n

Over the past several days, Pink Floyd has wrapped all their album sleeves on social platforms and music streaming apps in plain black, replacing the original artwork with white descriptions. For example, the Wish You Were Here sleeve now reads: \u201cTwo men in suits shaking hands one man is on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

This stripped-back presentation appears to be a direct nod to the album\u2019s first release, which famously came wrapped in black plastic to hide the now-iconic cover art.<\/p>\n

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Alongside this visual shift, Pink Floyd\u2019s official website<\/a> has undergone a similar transformation. Visitors are greeted by a blacked-out circle accompanied with the phrase \u201ccoming soon.\u201d Below this mysterious symbol is a prompt inviting fans to join Pink Floyd HQ \u2014 suggesting that something significant is on the horizon.<\/p>\n

While details remain scarce, the Internet is buzzing with theories. On Reddit<\/a>, one fan suggested the album might be receiving a Dolby Atmos upgrade for high-fidelity streaming services to coincide with the 50th anniversary. Another fan speculated that Pink Floyd could be planning the \u201cunthinkable\u201d \u2014 a full 50th-anniversary remaster of Wish You Were Here.<\/p>\n

The official anniversary lands this Friday, September 12, making the timing of the blackout campaign all the more suspicious (in the best way possible).<\/p>\n

Adding fuel to the speculation, Sony Music acquired Pink Floyd\u2019s entire catalog in October 2024 for $400 million \u2014 raising expectations for major reissues and remasters under the new ownership. Earlier this year, Sony made its first move by releasing Pink Floyd at Pompeii \u2013 MCMLXXII on vinyl, CD and film.<\/p>\n

Widely regarded as one of Pink Floyd\u2019s most emotionally powerful albums, Wish You Were Here pays tribute to founding member Syd Barrett and explores themes of absence and loss.<\/p>\n

Given the new ownership of Pink Floyd\u2019s catalog, a Wish You Were Here 50th anniversary reissue announcement feels more like a matter of when \u2014 not if.<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Parade<\/a> on Sep 10, 2025, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 50th anniversary of Wish You Were Here just around the corner, Pink Floyd is dropping cryptic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[9395,146,85,46,409,9394],"class_list":{"0":"post-8314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-50th-anniversary","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-pink-floyd"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314","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=8314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}