Wish You Were Here is the sixth album by rock band Badfinger and their third consecutive album produced by Chris Thomas. It was recorded in the spring of 1974 at Colorado's Caribou Ranch and released in November of that year on Warner Bros. Records. It was the second and last album the band released on the WB label.
Although the album received positive reviews in music magazine Rolling Stone upon its release and is sometimes considered to be the ...
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Wish You Were Here is the sixth album by rock band Badfinger and their third consecutive album produced by Chris Thomas. It was recorded in the spring of 1974 at Colorado's Caribou Ranch and released in November of that year on Warner Bros. Records. It was the second and last album the band released on the WB label.
Although the album received positive reviews in music magazine Rolling Stone upon its release and is sometimes considered to be the band's best work, it was pulled out of record stores in 1975, seven weeks after release, because of a lawsuit between WB music publishing and Badfinger's management. The album's abbreviated manufacturing run and short tenure on the market has made the original LP relatively rare.
Before being recalled, the album had time enough to chart, peaking at #148 in the US. In the 1990s it was re-released in CD format in Japan and Germany only, making Wish You Were Here difficult to find in this format as well. Most of the tracks, however, have been...
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