![merlin:
Brutal.
One of the more notable events during the recording of Wish You Were Here occurred on 5 June 1975 […] The band were in the process of completing a final mix of “Shine On”, when an overweight man—replete with shaven head and eyebrows, and clutching a plastic bag—entered the room. Waters, who was working in the studio, initially did not recognise him. Wright was also mystified by the identity of the visitor. He presumed that the man was a friend of Waters’ and asked him, but soon realised that it was Syd Barrett. Gilmour presumed he was an EMI staff member, and Mason also failed to recognise him; he was “horrified” when Gilmour told him. In Inside Out, Mason recalled Barrett’s conversation as “desultory and not entirely sensible”. Storm Thorgerson later reflected on Barrett’s presence: “Two or three people cried. He sat round and talked for a bit but he wasn’t really there.”
Syd Barrett, only six years earlier:](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpa5x9YxV91qz4rlzo1_r3_400.jpg)
One of the more notable events during the recording of Wish You Were Here occurred on 5 June 1975 […] The band were in the process of completing a final mix of “Shine On”, when an overweight man—replete with shaven head and eyebrows, and clutching a plastic bag—entered the room. Waters, who was working in the studio, initially did not recognise him. Wright was also mystified by the identity of the visitor. He presumed that the man was a friend of Waters’ and asked him, but soon realised that it was Syd Barrett. Gilmour presumed he was an EMI staff member, and Mason also failed to recognise him; he was “horrified” when Gilmour told him. In Inside Out, Mason recalled Barrett’s conversation as “desultory and not entirely sensible”. Storm Thorgerson later reflected on Barrett’s presence: “Two or three people cried. He sat round and talked for a bit but he wasn’t really there.”
Syd Barrett, only six years earlier:
