Recently, one of Nick Mason’s daughters persuaded him to do an online Pink Floyd quiz, just for the hell of it. “I scored 56 percent,” he admits with a chuckle. “I do remember feeling it was rather pathetic.”

The drummer , now 81 years old, doesn’t let his somewhat lapsed memory deter him from serving as the band’s chipper envoy for their reissued projects of late, which has included Live at Pompeii in Imax and an anniversary remastering of The Dark Side of the Moon. Five decades later, Mason gets to do the same for their masterpiece about absence: Wish You Were Here. Released in September 1975, the album’s sedulous world-building broke ground after an unexpected studio visit from co-founder Syd Barrett, who had departed Pink Floyd several years earlier on account of mental-he

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