Soul Music

9AM, 9.30PM, RADIO 4

Shine On You Crazy Diamond was recorded in 1975 for Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here album. The track, with its solemn opening chords, was a sort of tribute to

Syd Barrett, who had left the band because of his increasingly strange behaviour. A blank-eyed, fat, bald man – whom no one recognised – walked in during the recording; it was Syd. Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour talks about making the track on this show about music with deep emotional resonance.