The Dark Side of the Moon

Description

The 1973 mega-smash (741 weeks on the charts) that proved to be the all-time
rock classic Floyd had promised since the beginning! Intoxicating songs,
production, sound effects and instrumental excursions made this one of the
best albums of it’s decade: “Time,” “Money,” “Speak to Me/Breathe,” “The Great
Gig in the Sky,” “Us and Them,” “On the Run” and more. Parlophone.-The Dark
Side of the Moon is the eighth album by the English rock band Pink Floyd.
Originally released in March 1973, on the label Harvest, it built on ideas
explored in the band’s earlier recordings and live shows, but departs from
instrumental thematic by founding member Syd Barrett. The album explores
themes including conflict, greed, the passage of time, and mental illness, the
latter partly inspired by Barrett’s deteriorating mental state. Developed
during live performances, an early version was premiered several months before
recording began; new material was recorded in two sessions in 1972 and 1973 at
Abbey Road in London. The group used some advanced recording techniques at the
time, including multitrack recording and tape loops. Analogue synthesizers
were prominent in several tracks, and snippets from recorded interviews with
Pink Floyd’s road crew and others provided philosophical quotations
throughout. Engineer Alan Parsons was responsible for many distinctively
notable sonic aspects and the recruitment of non-lexical singer Clare Torry.
The album’s iconic sleeve, designed by Storm Thorgerson, depicts a prism
dispersing light into colour and represents the band’s lighting, the record’s
thematic material, and keyboardist Richard Wright’s “simple and bold” design
request. The Dark Side of the Moon was an immediate success; it topped the
Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart for a week and remained in the chart for 741
weeks from 1973 to 1988. With an estimated 45 million copies sold, it is Pink
Floyd’s most commercially successful album and one of the best-selling
worldwide. It has been remastered and re-released twice, and covered in it’s
entirety by several other acts. It produced two singles, “Money” and “Us and
Them”, and is the band’s most popular album among fans and critics, and has
been ranked as one of the greatest albums of all time.

Features:

Product Details:

• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.92 x 5.61 x 1.23 inches; 1.92 Ounces
• Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Pink Floyd Records
• Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2016
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 43 minutes
• Date First Available ‏ : ‎ January 13, 2016
• Label ‏ : ‎ Pink Floyd Records
• Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA