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Dark Side of the Rainbow


much time on his hands had this idea of combining "Wizard of Oz" with "Dark Side of the Moon"." On an MTV special about Pink Floyd in 2002, the band dismissed any relationship between the album and the movie, saying there were no means of reproducing the film in the studio at the time they recorded the album. "Dark Side of the Moon" audio engineer Alan Parsons in 2003 dismissed the supposed effect: Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason told MTV in 1997, "It's absolute nonsense
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Return to the Dark Side of the Moon


Return to the Dark Side of the Moon is a tribute album organised by Billy Sherwood, and released in 2006 on Purple Pyramid. It is a re-creation of Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon", and a sequel to Sherwood's "Back Against the Wall", itself a re-creation of Pink Floyd's "The Wall". "Return to the Dark Side of the Moon", in addition includes an original piece composed by Sherwood (and recorded with Tony Kaye and Robby Krieger
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Dark Side of the Moon Tour


The Dark Side of the Moon Tour was a concert tour by British rock band Pink Floyd in 1972 and 1973 in support of their album "The Dark Side of the Moon". There were two separate legs promoting "Dark Side of the Moon", one in 1972 before the album's release and another in 1973 after its release. Playing 93 shows in 1972, the most until 1994, Pink Floyd debuted the live performance before its release not of a song but a whole album. The original title was "Eclipse
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The Dark Side of the Moon


of Pink Floyd's US record company, Capitol Records. Newly appointed chairman Bhaskar Menon set about trying to reverse the relatively poor sales of the band's 1971 studio album "Meddle". Meanwhile, disenchanted with Capitol, the band and manager O'Rourke had been quietly negotiating a new contract with CBS president Clive Davis, on Columbia Records. "The Dark Side of the Moon" was the last album that Pink Floyd were obliged to release before formally signing a new contract. Menon's enthusiasm for the new album was such that
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Easy Star All-Stars


released four cover albums to date. In February 2003, Easy Star All-Stars released a cover album of Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" entitled "Dub Side of the Moon", a complete reggae reinterpretation of the Pink Floyd album. "Dub Side of the Moon" has remained on the Billboard Reggae Charts since its release in 2003. It features instructions on how to synchronize the record with "The Wizard of Oz", referencing the audiovisual pairing sometimes referred to as "Dark Side of
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Wearing the Inside Out


"Wearing the Inside Out" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1994 album, "The Division Bell". It is the first Pink Floyd song since "Time" from "The Dark Side of the Moon" where Richard Wright sings lead, as well as his final lead vocal on a Pink Floyd album. Additionally, it is the only song on the album for which David Gilmour receives no writing credit, and the only Pink Floyd song post-"Dark Side" to credit neither Roger Waters nor Gilmour. (Four instrumental
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The Dark Side of the Moon


in the history of rock music, and comparisons are sometimes drawn between Pink Floyd and Radiohead – specifically their 1997 album "OK Computer" – which has been called "The Dark Side of the Moon" of the 1990s, owing to the fact that both albums share themes relating to the loss of a creative individual's ability to function in the modern world. In a 2018 book about classic rock, Steven Hyden recalls concluding, in his teens, that "The Dark Side of the Moon" and "Led Zeppelin IV
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Money (Pink Floyd song)


order to create a "walk around the room" effect in the quadraphonic mix of "The Dark Side of the Moon". In the documentary "Classic Albums: Pink Floyd – The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon", engineer Alan Parsons described the recording of the band's initial backing track for the song: They used the sound-effect tape loop as a sort of metronome, but Parsons gradually faded out the loop before the vocals started. As the song progressed, the band gradually sped up,
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Motivation Radio


." Although not a concept album, the album has been described as possessing a trademark sound that is carried throughout its nine tracks. Dave Connolly of Allmusic characterised the album as the "light side of the moon," referring to Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973), saying it draws the listener into its "own astral plane with a glossy and gauzy sound similar to Pink Floyd without the darkness, or Alan Parsons Project without the dorkiness." He said that Hillage's guitar
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The Dark Side of the Moon


the album. "The Dark Side of the Moon" built upon experiments Pink Floyd had attempted in their previous live shows and recordings, but lacks the extended instrumental excursions which, according to critic David Fricke, had become characteristic of the band after founding member Syd Barrett left in 1968. Gilmour, Barrett's replacement, later referred to those instrumentals as "that psychedelic noodling stuff", and with Waters cited 1971's "Meddle" as a turning-point towards what would be realised on the album. "The Dark
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The Great Gig in the Sky


Floyd – The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon", various members mention that they had this song and weren't quite sure what to do with it. Wright further mentions that when she finished, she was apologetic about her performance even though those present were amazed at her improvisation. In 2004, Torry sued Pink Floyd and EMI for songwriting royalties, on the basis that her contribution to "Great Gig in the Sky" constituted co-authorship with Richard Wright. Originally, she had been paid the standard Sunday
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The Dark Side of the Moon Live


The Dark Side of the Moon Live was a worldwide concert tour by Roger Waters. Waters and his band performed the titular album in its entirety at each show, beginning at the Rock in Rio festival on 2 June 2006. The tour featured elaborate stage design by Mark Fisher (the architect of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" shows), including giant puppets, large video screen displays and a 360° quadraphonic sound system. The performances were divided into two sets: the first being a collection of Pink Floyd material along
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Memory Crash


from albums such as Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon". Other influences include Jimi Hendrix, particularly on Stevens' interpretation of Robin Trower's "Day of the Eagle", as well as Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, and even Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Bo Diddley, and Jeff Beck. Stevens has said that he spent a lot of time listening to bands such as Pink Floyd and Yes prior to making this album, "just soaking up what made them tick". During the recording,
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From the Dark Side of the Moon


From the Dark Side of the Moon is a 2011 album released by singer/songwriter Mary Fahl. The album is a song-by-song "re-imagining" of Pink Floyd's classic 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon". As of September 2006 Fahl completed the recording of "Mary Fahl: From the Dark Side of the Moon," produced by Mark Doyle and David Werner and mixed by Bob Clearmountain. Doyle also provided nearly all of the instrumentation. The album remained unreleased for several years
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one in the US. "The Dark Side of the Moon" is one of the best-selling albums in the world and "The Wall" is the highest-certified multiple-disc album by the Recording Industry Association of America. In 1986, Waters declared Pink Floyd "a spent force" and sued to dissolve their partnership and retire the name Pink Floyd, but the remaining members, led by Gilmour, continued recording and touring under the name Pink Floyd. Following an out-of-court settlement, the
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The Dark Side of the Moon


The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1973 by Harvest Records. Primarily developed during live performances, the band premiered an early version of the record several months before recording began. New material was recorded in two sessions in 1972 and 1973 at Abbey Road Studios in London. The record builds on ideas explored in Pink Floyd's earlier recordings and performances, while omitting the extended instrumentals that characterised their earlier work. A concept album, its themes explore conflict
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Breathe (Pink Floyd song)


"Breathe" (sometimes called "Breathe (In the Air)") is a song by progressive rock band Pink Floyd on their 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon". The authorship and composition of this song is credited to David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Roger Waters for the music, and Waters for the lyrics. "Dark Side", admitted the latter, "is a little adolescent and naïve in its preoccupations, but I'm not belittling it. It's like a rather wonderful, naïve
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Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets


Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett. The band made their live debut in May 2018 in front of an invited audience at Dingwalls in London, playing a selection of Pink Floyd material released before their 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon". This was followed by three small shows at The Half Moon, Putney and European tour in September 2018. On 18 April 2019, Mason's former Pink Floyd bandmate Roger Waters surprised the audience at the Beacon Theatre by joining the band onstage to sing the lead vocals for "Set
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29 March 1994, in Miami, with an almost identical road crew to that used for their "Momentary Lapse of Reason" tour. They played a variety of Pink Floyd favourites, and later changed their setlist to include "The Dark Side of the Moon" in its entirety. The tour, Pink Floyd's last, ended on 29 October 1994. On 2 July 2005, Waters, Gilmour, Mason and Wright performed together as Pink Floyd for the first time in more than 24 years, at the Live 8 concert
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included on 1973's "The Dark Side of the Moon". In 1971, the band again worked with Schroeder on the film "La Vallée", for which they released a soundtrack album called "Obscured by Clouds". They composed the material in about a week at the Château d'Hérouville near Paris, and upon its release, it became Pink Floyd's first album to break into the top 50 on the US "Billboard" chart. Regarded as pioneers of live music performance and renowned for their lavish stage shows,
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"The Division Bell" and "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" plus "Astronomy Domine" and "One of These Days". The second half made up of various Pink Floyd material from "The Dark Side of the Moon", "Wish You Were Here", "The Wall" and "The Division Bell". On shows where all of "Dark Side" was played in the second set, the first half of the setlist consisted of material from "The Division Bell", "A Momentary Lapse
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Why Pink Floyd...?


of "The Wall" did not. "Wish You Were Here" was also released in an SACD version. A new best-of album, titled "A Foot in the Door – The Best of Pink Floyd" was released, as well as "Sampler", a Best Buy exclusive compilation. Phase 1 of the "Why Pink Floyd...?" campaign began on 26 September 2011 with the release of "The Dark Side of the Moon" "Experience", "Immersion" and vinyl editions; a
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Dark Side of the Rainbow


Dark Side of the Rainbow – also known as Dark Side of Oz or The Wizard of Floyd – refers to the pairing of the 1973 Pink Floyd album "The Dark Side of the Moon" with the visual portion of the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz." This produces moments where the film and the album appear to correspond with each other. The title of the music video mashup-like experience comes from a combination of the album title, the album cover, and the film's song "Over the Rainbow
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The Dark Side of the Moon


: A Tribute to Pink Floyd". Released in 2006, the album is a progressive rock tribute featuring artists such as Adrian Belew, Tommy Shaw, Dweezil Zappa, and Rick Wakeman. In 2000, The Squirrels released "The Not So Bright Side of the Moon", which features a cover of the entire album. The New York dub collective Easy Star All-Stars released "Dub Side of the Moon" in 2003 and "Dubber Side of the Moon" in 2010. The group Voices on the Dark Side
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Pink Floyd bootleg recordings


record company executives would come around (in which case the printed label could show the artist and song names) and other times they would print labels with fictitious names. For example, the 1972 Pink Floyd bootleg called "Brain Damage" was released under the name The Screaming Abdabs. In January 1972, Pink Floyd debuted the live performance of their album "The Dark Side of the Moon" before its release. A lot of Pink Floyd bootlegs date back from this period. Most of these bootlegs contain a pre-release
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The Dark Side of the Moon


imagining" of the album. Milli Vanilli used the tape loops from Pink Floyd's "Money" to open their track "Money", followed by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch on "Music for the People". Dark Side of the Rainbow and Dark Side of Oz are two names commonly used in reference to rumours (circulated on the Internet since at least 1994) that "The Dark Side of the Moon" was written as a soundtrack for the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz". Observers playing the
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Sorrowful Angels


January, an acoustic version of "Omens" song as a digital video single. In July 2014, Sorrowful Angels Participated at Italy's Total Metal Festival along with Kreator, Behemoth and Decapitated among others. Shortly after they are requested by Metal Hammer GR, to record a cover of Pink Floyd's "Time" from The Dark Side Of The Moon. The track was part of "Landing on the Dark Side of the Moon" album, essentially a tribute to The Dark Side of the Moon. On 15 November,
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The Wall" (1979) and "The Final Cut" (1983). "The Dark Side of the Moon" and "The Wall" became two of the best-selling albums of all time. Following creative tensions, Wright left Pink Floyd in 1979, followed by Waters in 1985. Gilmour and Mason continued as Pink Floyd, joined later by Wright. The three produced two more albums—"A Momentary Lapse of Reason" (1987) and "The Division Bell" (1994)—and toured through 1994. In 2005,
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You're In" and "Echoes". An early 1973 set list (until mid-March) included: First Set: Second Set:br "The Dark Side of the Moon" entire albumbr Encore: For remainder of 1973 (except 4 November), the set list included: First Set: Second Set: br "The Dark Side of the Moon" entire albumbr Encore: In 1973, the band moved "Dark Side of the Moon" to the second set (where it would reside through 1975)
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Nick Mason


Waters, Bob Klose and Richard Wright in 1964 to form Pink Floyd's predecessor, Sigma 6. Mason has been the drummer on every Pink Floyd album. The only Pink Floyd songs whose composition is credited solely to Mason are "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party Parts 1–3" (from "Ummagumma") and "Speak to Me" (from "The Dark Side of the Moon"). The track "Nick's Boogie" was named after him. The only times Mason's voice has been included on Pink
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On the Run (instrumental)


Moon" and can also be heard on all performances of Pink Floyd playing the album live in that year. In a contemporary review for "The Dark Side of the Moon", Lloyd Grossman of "Rolling Stone" described "On the Run" as a "standout with footsteps racing from side to side successfully eluding any number of odd malevolent rumbles and explosions only to be killed off by the clock's ticking that leads into "Time." During the first official performance of "Dark Side of the Moon",
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The Best of the Pink Floyd


The Best of the Pink Floyd, also issued as Masters of Rock, is a compilation album of early Pink Floyd music, concentrating on singles and album tracks from 1967 to 1968. Later editions titled "Masters of Rock" were released in 1974 in France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, to capitalise on the success of "The Dark Side of the Moon". It is one of the "Masters of Rock" series of budget EMI compilations with identical titles, each volume for a different artist. Two
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Works (Pink Floyd album)


Works is a compilation album of songs by British progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released in 1983. It features a variety of material, including two of the band's early singles, "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play," alternative mixes of tracks from "The Dark Side of the Moon" and the studio outtake "Embryo." The album was released by Pink Floyd's former American label, Capitol Records, to compete with their then-current studio album "The Final Cut". The album is
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Money (Pink Floyd song)


, along with "Breathe" (including the reprise that follows "Time"), "Wish You Were Here" and "Comfortably Numb". Unusually for a live Pink Floyd performance, at Live 8 the band kept the song's solo to three choruses, as it is on the album. Gilmour played the song regularly during his Rattle That Lock Tour in 2015 and 2016. Pink Floyd's album "The Dark Side of the Moon" was released March 1, 1973. "Money" is the only song
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Why Pink Floyd...?


Why Pink Floyd...? was a re-release campaign of Pink Floyd's back catalogue, released in three stages over 2011–12. Under the campaign, multiple forms of the band's material were released, with new remasters and unreleased tracks. The albums were available in three different configurations: "Discovery", "Experience" and "Immersion". The "Immersion" boxsets of "The Dark Side of the Moon" and "Wish You Were Here" featured 5.1 surround sound mixes of the original albums, while that
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1970s in music


Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Rush, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It reached its peak of popularity in the mid-1970s, but had mixed critical acclaim and the punk movement can be seen as a reaction against its musicality and perceived pomposity. Nevertheless, Pink Floyd's 1973 release, "The Dark Side of the Moon", was an immediate success, remaining in the charts for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988, with an estimated 50 million copies sold. It is Pink Floyd's most commercially
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often collect the complete discography of an artist such as Pink Floyd's "Oh, by the Way" and "Discovery" sets. Sometimes bands release expanded versions of their most successful albums such as Pink Floyd's "Immersion" box set versions of their "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973), "Wish You Were Here" (1975) and "The Wall" (1979) albums. Pink Floyd have also released "The Early Years 1965–1972" box set which features mostly unreleased material. Other
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Pulse (Pink Floyd album)


Pulse (stylised as p·u·l·s·e) is a live album by the English rock band Pink Floyd. It was released on 29 May 1995 by EMI in the United Kingdom and on 6 June 1995 by Columbia in the United States. The album was recorded during the European leg of Pink Floyd's Division Bell Tour in 1994. The album is notable to include a complete live version of "The Dark Side of the Moon". It also features "Astronomy Domine", a Syd Barrett song not performed since the early 1970s.
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The Dark Side of the Moon Live


with songs from Roger's solo career, and the second "The Dark Side of the Moon" in its entirety, plus encores. Pink Floyd's iconic pig has been used extensively during the "Dark Side of the Moon tour", introduced on 6 September 2006, the opening night of the US leg, and since appearing at almost every venue. During the tour, the pig has often carried messages critical of the American government, Waters' socialist views, and the support of repressed Latin American populations, including indictments
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The Dark Side of the Moon (2009 album)


The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon is a collaborative studio album by the psychedelic rock group The Flaming Lips. The album is a complete track-for-track reimagining of Pink Floyd's seminal 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon". The album was released through the iTunes Store on December 22, 2009, and was released on other digital music retailers a week later. On April 17, 2010, Warner Bros. released 5000 copies of "
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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn


says that "Piper" became known as a concept album in later years, because listeners wanted to play it all the way through rather than pick out a favourite song. While Beatles biographer Philip Norman agrees that "Piper" is a concept album, other authors contend that Pink Floyd did not start making concept albums until 1973's "The Dark Side of the Moon". Author George Reisch called Pink Floyd the "undisputed" kings of the concept album, but only starting from "Dark Side". In July 2006
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Dark Side of the Rainbow


being short compared to the 101-minute "The Wizard of Oz". In the book "", Nick Mason noted that the band was becoming proficient at creating movie soundtracks by the time they started the recording of "The Dark Side of the Moon", and that they even interrupted their work on the album so they could score yet another film. He explained the technical process that Pink Floyd used to score movies when he wrote about the recording of the 1972 "Obscured by Clouds" movie soundtrack: The fame of Dark
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of Pink Floyd except Wright boycotted the press release of "The Dark Side of the Moon" because a quadraphonic mix had not yet been completed, and they felt presenting the album through a poor-quality stereo PA system was insufficient. "Melody Maker"s Roy Hollingworth described side one as "utterly confused ... [and] difficult to follow", but praised side two, writing: "The songs, the sounds ... [and] the rhythms were solid ... [the] saxophone hit the air, the band rocked and
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The Dark Side of the Moon


hit the air, the band rocked and rolled, and then gushed and tripped away into the night." Steve Peacock of "Sounds" wrote: "I don't care if you've never heard a note of the Pink Floyd's music in your life, I'd unreservedly recommend everyone to "The Dark Side of the Moon"". In his 1973 review for "Rolling Stone" magazine, Loyd Grossman declared "Dark Side" "a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites,
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Pink Floyd bootleg recordings


Pink Floyd is "Best of Tour '72: Live at the Rainbow Theatre" with a concert performed on 20 February 1972. This bootleg includes one of the first performances of "The Dark Side of the Moon". One year and one month before the official release of that same album, the bootleg had already sold over 120,000 copies. In 2008, the Pink Floyd bootleg "Madison Square Garden, New York, NY – 2 July 1977" was mentioned on the Yahoo's "Top 10 of Best Bootlegs of
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signifying nothing". "Meddle" is a transitional album between the Barrett-influenced group of the late 1960s and the emerging Pink Floyd. The LP peaked at number 3, spending 82 weeks on the UK chart. Pink Floyd recorded "The Dark Side of the Moon" between May 1972 and January 1973 with EMI staff engineer Alan Parsons at Abbey Road. The title is an allusion to lunacy rather than astronomy. The band had composed and refined the material while touring the UK, Japan, North America and Europe.
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The Division Bell


The Division Bell is the fourteenth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 28 March 1994 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and on 4 April by Columbia Records in the United States. The second Pink Floyd album recorded without founding member Roger Waters, "The Division Bell" was written mostly by guitarist and singer David Gilmour and keyboardist Richard Wright. It features Wright's first lead vocal on a Pink Floyd album since "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973). Gilmour's fiancée
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The Dark Side of the Moon Live


on the original Pink Floyd recordings. Andrew Latimer, leader of the progressive rock group Camel was auditioned to be lead guitarist and Gilmour's vocal replacement on the tour, but it was felt his voice could not reach the same high notes, although his guitar playing (often compared to Gilmour's) was exemplary. Most of the touring band for Waters has toured with him and other Pink Floyd members for many years and even recorded with them in a few instances. Waters' former Pink Floyd bandmate Nick Mason played drums alongside
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Pink Floyd live performances


21.3 metres before opening into an array of petals 7.3 metres wide during the final guitar solo of "Comfortably Numb", revealing a 12 kilowatt Phobeus HMI lamp inside. Thanks to stage architect/designer Mark Fisher, Pink Floyd's tours became a staple in the industry because of their outstanding special and scenic effects. Pyrotechnics (such as exploding flashpots, an exploding gong and fireworks) and dry ice were used extensively throughout Pink Floyd's career. In 1973's tour to promote "The Dark Side of the Moon",
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Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album)


13 million copies. During 1974, Pink Floyd sketched out three new compositions, "Raving and Drooling", "You Gotta Be Crazy" and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". These songs were performed during a series of concerts in France and England, the band's first tour since 1973's "The Dark Side of the Moon". As Pink Floyd had never employed a publicist and kept themselves distant from the press, their relationship with the media began to sour. Mason said later that a critical "
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Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd


Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd is an instrumental album of Pink Floyd songs. The album was arranged by Jaz Coleman, produced by Youth and performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Peter Scholes. The album cover was painted by Roger Dean who is known for his organic paintings. He also designed albums for Asia, Uriah Heep, and Yes. The album, which features six songs taken from "The Dark Side of the Moon" released in 1973 and three from "The Wall" released in 1979, peaked
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Dub Side of the Moon


Dub Side of the Moon is a dub reggae tribute to the 1973 Pink Floyd album, "The Dark Side of the Moon", co-produced by Easy Star All-Stars founders Michael G (Michael Goldwasser) and Ticklah (Victor Axelrod). "Dub Side of the Moon" has remained on the Billboard Reggae Charts since its release in 2003. Easy Star All Stars released "Dub Side of the Moon: Special Anniversary Edition", on CD and vinyl, on September 16, 2014. Included with the
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Dubber Side of the Moon


Dubber Side of the Moon is the second dub reggae tribute to the Pink Floyd album, "The Dark Side of the Moon", by New York-based band Easy Star All-Stars. The album features bass-heavy dub remixes by prominent dub producers of its predecessor, Easy Star Records' 2003 release "Dub Side of the Moon". "Dubber Side of the Moon" debuted at #2 on the Billboard Reggae charts. "Great effort. Great remixes. Great album." - Music News "
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The Dark Side of the Moon


and Them" on the opposite side. Menon's efforts to secure a contract renewal with Pink Floyd were in vain however; at the beginning of 1974, the band signed for Columbia with a reported advance fee of $1M (in Britain and Europe they continued to be represented by Harvest Records). "The Dark Side of the Moon" became one of the best-selling albums of all time and is in the top 25 of a list of best-selling albums in the United States. Although it held
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WZLX


repair the station's ratings. A series of ownership changes made WZLX a part of Cook-Inlet Radio, then Infinity Broadcasting in late 1992. Infinity was renamed CBS Radio in December 2005. In 1997, WZLX radio host George Taylor Morris created a media frenzy about the "Dark Side of the Rainbow" phenomenon, in which Pink Floyd's album "The Dark Side of the Moon" is said to synch up with the movie "The Wizard of Oz". In 2005, WZLX, along with sister stations Mix
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Charlie Savage


and American literature and language from Harvard College in 1998 and a Master of Studies in Law (MSL) in 2003 from Yale Law School, where he was a Knight Foundation journalism fellow. Savage is believed to have written the first mainstream media story about the Dark Side of the Rainbow, the practice of listening to Pink Floyd's album "The Dark Side of the Moon" while watching the film "The Wizard of Oz", in August 1995, while working as a college intern at "The Journal Gazette" in
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the lyrics off-microphone. During the guitar introduction of "Wish You Were Here", Waters said: They were augmented by guitarist/bassist Tim Renwick (guitarist on Roger Waters' 1984 solo tour, who has since become Pink Floyd's backing guitarist on stage); keyboardist/lap steel guitarist/backup vocalist Jon Carin (Pink Floyd's backing keyboardist from 1987 onward who performed on the 1999–2000 North American leg of Waters' "In the Flesh" tour, his 2006–2008 "Dark Side of the Moon Live"
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Money (Pink Floyd song)


"Money" is a song by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd from their 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon". Written by Roger Waters, it opened side two of the LP record. Released as a single, it became the band's first hit in the United States, reaching number 10 in "Cash Box" magazine and number 13 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. "Money" is noted for its unusual – time signature, and the tape loop of money-related sound effects
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October Project


released a full-length album, "The Other Side of Time" in 2003, also produced by Lesser. In 2006, Fahl recorded "From the Dark Side of the Moon" for V2 Records. The album, produced by Mark Doyle and David Werner, is an interpretation of Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon". Following the restructuring of V2, the album was put in storage for several years. It was released independently by Fahl in late 2011. In late 2013, Fahl released her
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Tubular bells


1974), "Ommadawn" (1975), "Incantations" (1978), "Crises" (1983), "Islands" (1989) and "Amarok" (1990). Tubular bells appear on Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973) on the song "Brain Damage", but are rendered almost inaudible on the original stereo mix and quadrophonic mix. Tubular bells appear as part of the fascist rally in a scene from the movie adaptation of Pink Floyd's "The
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Legion (season 1)


Russo specifically found a Synthi AKS synthesizer for the show, as that instrument was used during the making of Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon", one of Hawley's favorite albums and what Russo described as "the sound of schizophrenia, the sound of mental illness in the '70s. So why not use that as the touchstone for what the sound of this score might be?" Russo experimented with the instrument, and began "recording and writing melodies around its unusual sounds." With the season
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Dark Side of the Moon Tour


One: "The Dark Side of the Moon" Set Two: Encores (when played): In November 1972, during the middle of the European leg of their 1972 world tour and again in January 1973, Pink Floyd performed with the Roland Petit Ballet. The set list for which their portion of the ballet was choreographed to was "One of These Days", "Careful with That Axe, Eugene", "Obscured by Clouds", "When You're In", "Childhood's End" and "
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Us and Them (song)


"Us and Them" is a song by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, from their 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon". The music was written by Richard Wright with lyrics by Roger Waters. It is sung by David Gilmour, with harmonies by Wright. The song is 7 minutes, 51 seconds in length, making it the longest on the album. "Us and Them" was released as the second single from "The Dark Side of the Moon" in the United States, peaking
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Scott Phillips (musician)


, Lars Ulrich (Metallica), John Bonham (Led Zeppelin), Morgan Rose (Sevendust), and Neil Peart (Rush). His favorite bands are Living Colour, Tool, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Rush and favorite albums are "Time's Up" (Living Colour), "The Dark Side of the Moon" and "The Wall" (Pink Floyd), "Led Zeppelin IV" (Led Zeppelin), and "Superunknown" (Soundgarden). Scott has, in the past,
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Alan Parsons


the Hollies, and Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon", for which he received his first Grammy Award nomination. He was known for doing more than what would normally be considered the scope of a recording engineer's duties. He considered himself to be a recording director, likening his contribution to recordings to what Stanley Kubrick contributed to film. This is apparent in his work with Al Stewart's "Year of the Cat", where Parsons added the saxophone part and transformed the original folk concept into the
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Sheep (song)


"Sheep" is a song by English band Pink Floyd, released on the album "Animals" in 1977. In 1974, it was originally titled "Raving and Drooling". It was written by bassist Roger Waters. During their tours in 1974, Pink Floyd played three new songs in the first half of the shows, followed by "The Dark Side of the Moon" in its entirety. Those three new songs were "You've Got to Be Crazy" (which later became "Dogs"), "
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The Series Has Landed


Armstrong's quote "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind". At the "Destination Moon" lunar rover ride, there is a reference to Ralph and Alice Kramden from the sitcom "The Honeymooners". When Fry and Leela are on the surface of the Moon and it starts to get dark, it is possible to hear in the background the first chord of the song "Breathe" from Pink Floyd's album "The Dark Side of the Moon". Ken Keeler was nominated
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Roger Waters


The first half of the show featured both Pink Floyd songs and Waters' solo material, while the second half included a complete live performance of the 1973 Pink Floyd album "The Dark Side of the Moon", the first time in over three decades that Waters had performed the album. The shows ended with an encore from the third side of "The Wall". He used elaborate staging by concert lighting designer Marc Brickman complete with laser lights, fog machines, pyrotechnics, psychedelic projections, and inflatable floating puppets (Spaceman
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Radiodread


Radiodread is a 2006 tribute album by the Easy Star All-Stars that covers Radiohead's 1997 album "OK Computer" in reggae, ska and dub styles. Their previous release, "Dub Side of the Moon" (2003), is a reggae/dub take on Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon." Easy Star Records CEO Eric Smith and executive producer of the album said: Michael Goldwasser, who produced "Dub Side of the Moon" and produced and arranged "Radiodread": In
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Billy Sherwood


to the Dark Side of the Moon", tributes to Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and "The Dark Side of the Moon" respectively. The latter includes a new track recorded with Tony Kaye. In 2007, a new band with Sherwood, Alan White, Tony Kaye and Jimmy Haun was announced, called Circa. With the release of their debut album "Circa 2007" and a live DVD concert, Circa has played various live dates. White left the band and was replaced by Jay Schellen. Sherwood is
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changed for the first part of the US tour to "Eclipse (A Piece for Assorted Lunatics)" during April and May before reverting to "Dark Side of the Moon - A Piece for Assorted Lunatics" in September for the second part of the US tour and finally released in 1973 under the title of "Dark Side of the Moon". One of the two shows at The Dome, Brighton, England on 28 June and 29 June was filmed by Peter Clifton for inclusion on his film "Sounds of the City
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Dark Side of the Moon" album in the second half, with "One of These Days" as the encore. Dick Parry played saxophone while the Blackberries were the backing vocalists for seven June shows. The setlist consisted of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", "Raving and Drooling" (an early version of "Sheep"), "Echoes" making up the first half and "The Dark Side of the Moon" making up the second. Dick Parry and the Blackberries were additional musicians for the September,
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Concept album


Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake" (Small Faces, 1968) and "S.F. Sorrow" (The Pretty Things, 1968). Author Jim Cullen states: "The concept album reached its apogee in the 1970s in ambitious records like Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" (1973) and the Eagles' "Hotel California" (1976)." In 2015, "Rolling Stone" ranked "Dark Side of the Moon" at number one among the 50 greatest progressive rock albums of all-time,
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Pink Floyd bootleg recordings


, a recording of the 19 November show in Stoke-on-Trent was a notable bootleg released in 1975. It featured the three new songs that Pink Floyd were playing on that tour. It sold an estimated 50,000 copies. The record was issued with the lyrics to the songs, and the quality of presentation convinced a number of buyers that the album was a "bona fide" follow-up to "The Dark Side of the Moon". The British Phonographic Industry were not impressed, and attempted to find out
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The Illustrated Man


Tattooed Steiger", details the process the filmmakers used to cover Steiger's body in mock tattoos and shows actors and filmmakers preparing for the movie. A theater adaptation of "Kaleidoscope", with influence from music by Pink Floyd was used to produce "To the Dark Side of the Moon", in reference to the Pink Floyd album by the same name. This adaptation was produced by Stern-Theater, a Swiss-based theater company. The script was written by Daniel Rohr and was first shown at the Theater Rigiblick
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Medicine Head


over a year, and Fiddler, Relf (on bass), and drummer John Davies recorded the band's third album and last on Dandelion, "Dark Side of the Moon". It was released in 1972, the year before the Pink Floyd album of the same name. According to Nicholas Schaffner, Pink Floyd briefly changed the name of their piece (which they were already performing live), to "Eclipse", until the Medicine Head album turned out to be "a commercial dud". The track "
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Money (Pink Floyd song)


. This song does not entail the perennial themes that fans are used to such as paranoia, insanity, the meaning of life, and the passage of time. Instead, Pink Floyd changes their conventional message with lyrics that criticize crass materialism. The music video for "Money" features scenes of various ways of making and spending money, and includes brief closeups of a coin spinning, coins flowing in a mint, gold ingots in a bank, and a record copy of "The Dark Side of the Moon" on a
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Mary Fahl


course of being eclectic by tossing faint nods at different styles while trying to hew firmly to the center of the road." As of September 2006 Fahl completed the recording of "From the Dark Side of the Moon," produced by Mark Doyle and David Werner and mixed by Bob Clearmountain. Doyle also provided nearly all of the instrumentation. The album is a song-by-song "re-imagining" of Pink Floyd's classic album "The Dark Side of the Moon". Advance copies were not sent out
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The Division Bell Tour


grossing tour in rock music history to that date, with the band playing the entirety of "The Dark Side of the Moon" in some shows. The first show they played the whole "The Dark Side of the Moon" was on July 15th, 1994 at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan, which was the first time since 1975 it was played. While preparing for the tour, Pink Floyd spent most of March rehearsing in a hangar at Norton Air Force Base in California. The concerts featured even more impressive
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Dark Side of the Moon Tour


Echoes" 1973 saw Pink Floyd go on two relatively short tours of the US, one in March to coincide with the release of "Dark Side of the Moon" and a later one in June. Sandwiched between them were two nights at London's Earl's Court on 18 May and 19 May where they debuted the special effect of a plane crashing into the stage at the end of the song "On the Run". This was also the first year that the band took additional musicians on tour with them, unlike
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Pink Floyd live performances


, and played the album version of the piece, notably the revamped versions of "On the Run" and "The Great Gig in the Sky." 1973 saw Pink Floyd go on two relatively short tours of the US, one in March to coincide with the release of "The Dark Side of the Moon" and a later one in June. Sandwiched between them were two nights at London's Earl's Court on 18 May and 19 May where they debuted the special effect of a plane crashing into the stage at
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Pink Floyd live performances


the end of the song "On the Run". This was also the first year that the band took additional musicians on tour with them, unlike the earlier performances of "Atom Heart Mother" where the band would often hire local musicians. Because of the overwhelming chart success of both "The Dark Side of the Moon", which reached #1 in the US in late April, #2 in the UK, and the US-released single "Money", the nature of Pink Floyd's audiences changed in
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Weekend at Burnsie's


a total coincidence", Jean said. "It reminds me of the whole "Wizard of Oz"/Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon) hook-up. I haven't done it and I'm sure it works, but I just keep thinking that it must be a coincidence. Before there was the invention of video, I don't know how Pink Floyd would have done a whole album to a movie." On May 17, 2002, Robert S. Stephens and Roger A. Roffman of "The Seattle Times"
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You Gotta be Crazy", "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (now split into two halves), "Have a Cigar" and the second half consisted of "The Dark Side of the Moon", with "Echoes" as the encore. Dick Parry and Snowy White assisted Pink Floyd during the entire tour which lasted from January to July 1977. The setlist featured "Animals" in the first half and "Wish You Were Here" in the second, with "Money" and "Us and Them
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", "The Wall", "Wish You Were Here" and "Meddle" with the second half being "The Dark Side of the Moon" with encores of "Wish You Were Here", "Comfortably Numb", and "Run Like Hell". A recording of this tour can be found on "P•U•L•S•E". On 2 July 2005, Pink Floyd reunited with Roger Waters to help promote awareness to global poverty. The setlist was "Speak to Me" / "Breathe" / "Breathe (
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Alan Parsons


Alan Parsons (born 20 December 1948) is an English audio engineer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He was involved with the production of several significant albums, including the Beatles' "Abbey Road" and "Let It Be", and Ambrosia's debut album "Ambrosia" as well as Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" for which Pink Floyd credit him as an important contributor. Parsons' own group, The Alan Parsons Project, as well as his subsequent solo recordings, have
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Chris Thomas (record producer)


singer-songwriter Bryan Ferry, who asked him to produce the band's second album, "For Your Pleasure". The collaboration continued for the next four albums ("Stranded", "Country Life", "Siren" and "Viva!"). In 1973, as Thomas' work continued to attract interest, he took on mixing duties with Pink Floyd for their "The Dark Side of the Moon" album. In his Mix interview, Thomas claimed he would finish work on the Pink Floyd album at
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Money (Pink Floyd song)


, the song has a "bluesy, transatlantic feel", unlike Waters' original demo version, which he later described as "prissy and very English". As heard on "Classic Albums: Pink Floyd – The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon", the demo is in the key of G-sharp minor, as opposed to the B minor of the final version. The instrumental jam was a collaborative effort, with Gilmour overseeing the time change as well as his own guitar and vocal work, and
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The Squirrels


caught fire and he had to abandon the rest of his collection. (It had a typically eccentric B-side: Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again, Naturally".) Perhaps the most widely respected Squirrels album is "The Not-So-Bright Side of the Moon" (2000), a song-by-song cover of the Pink Floyd album "The Dark Side of the Moon", described by Jim DeRogatis, of the "Chicago Sun-Times" as a "…brilliant through-the
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David Gilmour


David Jon Gilmour, (; born 6 March 1946) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter who was a member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. He joined the group as guitarist and co-lead vocalist in 1968 shortly before the departure of founding member Syd Barrett. Pink Floyd subsequently achieved international success with the concept albums "The Dark Side of the Moon", "Wish You Were Here", "Animals", and "The Wall". By the early 1980s, they had become one of the
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Pink Floyd live performances


suites were being performed as late as early 1970. A typical 1970 set list would include some of the following: Early in 1970, Pink Floyd performed at gigs a piece from their film soundtrack for Michelangelo Antonioni's film "Zabriskie Point" referred to as "The Violent Sequence". This was the musical basis for "Us and Them", from their "The Dark Side of the Moon" album. Lacking only the lyrics, it is identical to the final song and is the earliest part of the seminal album
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even varied the number of songs played in the encore from the usual one, to two or three. 1972 saw Pink Floyd debut the performance of a not just a song (like on previous tours), but an entire album prior to its release. The original title was "Eclipse (A Piece for Assorted Lunatics)", then "The Dark Side of the Moon - A Piece for Assorted Lunatics", the name under which it made its press debut in February 1972 at London's Rainbow Theatre. The title
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which as well as the usual special effects featured a fly-past by a pair of Spitfires. This was supposed to synchronise with the start of 'Breathe' but the band had tuning difficulties and the planes flew over before the start of the set. Knebworth was the last time the band would perform "Echoes" and the entire "Dark Side of the Moon" with Roger Waters. A typical 1977 set list would include the following: Encore: In 1977, Pink Floyd embarked on a world tour in support of
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Pink Floyd live performances


horizon in television broadcasts of the performance), and during "Money", a shot of "The Dark Side of the Moon" record being played was shown. During "Comfortably Numb", the three giant screens showed the Pink Floyd Wall (from the cover of "The Wall"), and during the final guitar solo, the words "Make Poverty History" were written on the wall. At the end, after the last song had been played, Gilmour said "thank you very much, good night
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Dick Parry


Gilmour. He was part of a mid-1960s band also including Gilmour called Joker's Wild. From there, Gilmour persuaded him to play on Pink Floyd studio albums, including "The Dark Side of the Moon", "Wish You Were Here", and "The Division Bell", as well as on every Pink Floyd live performance between 1973 and 1977, and the 1994 world tour. He also toured as part of the Who's brass section on their 1979–1980 tours. He played saxophone on "Celestine" for the
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Time (Pink Floyd song)


"Time" is a song by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It is included as the fourth track on "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973) and was released as a single in the United States. Bassist Roger Waters wrote the lyrics and the music is credited to all four band members. Keyboardist Richard Wright shares lead vocals (his last until "Wearing the Inside Out" on "The Division Bell") alongside guitarist David Gilmour. The lyrics deal with the passage of time – time can
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Dream Theater


official release. "A Change of Seasons" features Elton John, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Kansas, Queen, Journey, Dixie Dregs and Genesis live covers. Through YtseJam Records, the band have also released full album live cover performances of Metallica's "Master of Puppets", Iron Maiden's "The Number of the Beast", Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon", and Deep Purple's "Made in Japan". The special edition of "Black Clouds & Silver
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Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album)


The Village Voice": "The music is not only simple and attractive, with the synthesizer used mostly for texture and the guitar breaks for comment, but it actually achieves some of the symphonic dignity (and cross-referencing) that "The Dark Side of the Moon" simulated so ponderously." Years later, he reflected further on the record: "My favorite Pink Floyd album has always been "Wish You Were Here", and you know why? It has soul, that's why – it's Roger
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the Sky", "Money", "Comfortably Numb", and "Run Like Hell". On 18 September 1993, Pink Floyd played a three piece set for the King Edward VII Hospital. The band performed "Run Like Hell", "Wish You Were Here", and "Comfortably Numb". The Division Bell tour lasted from March to October 1994. The first half of the setlist on shows where "The Dark Side of the Moon" was not played in its entirety would consist of material from
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Pink Floyd


rolled". "Rolling Stone"s Loyd Grossman described it as "a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement." Throughout March 1973, "The Dark Side of the Moon" featured as part of Pink Floyd's US tour. The album is one of the most commercially successful rock albums of all time; a US number 1, it remained on the "Billboard" chart for more than fourteen years, selling more than 45 million copies worldwide. In Britain, the album
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