Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of The Moon Vinyl LP ORG. 1973 O.O.P V/N/M ACTUAL PICTURES

$

129

"PINK FLOYD"

The Dark Side of the Moon Lp Album art by Hipgnosis and George Hardie Studio album by Pink Floyd Released 1 March 1973 (1973-03-01) Recorded June 1972 – January 1973 at
Abbey Road Studios, London Genre Progressive rock Length 42:59 Label Harvest, Capitol Producer Pink Floyd

CONDITION: = VINYL NEAR MINT GATEFOLD COVER EXCELLENT NO SEAM SPLITS RECORDABLE FRAMABLE VIEW/ZOOM (11) ACTUAL PICTURES

The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released in March 1973. It built on ideas explored in the band's earlier recordings and live shows, but lacks the extended instrumental excursions that characterised their work following the departure in 1968 of founder member, principal composer, and lyricist, Syd Barrett. The Dark Side of the Moon's themes include 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 of the suite was premiered several months before studio recording began; new material was recorded in two sessions in 1972 and 1973 at Abbey Road Studios in London. The group used some of the most advanced recording techniques of the time, including multitrack recording and tape loops. Analogue synthesizers were given prominence in several tracks, and a series of recorded interviews with the band's road crew and others provided the philosophical quotations used throughout. Engineer Alan Parsons was directly responsible for some of the most notable sonic aspects of the album as well as the recruitment of non-lexical performer Clare Torry. The album's iconic sleeve, designed by Storm Thorgerson, features a prism that represents the band's stage lighting, the record's lyrical themes, and keyboardist Richard Wright's request for a "simple and bold" design.  Dark Side of the Moon was an immediate success, topping the Billboard Top LPs chart for one week. It remained in the charts for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988. With an estimated 50 million copies sold, it is Pink Floyd's most commercially successful album and one of the best-selling albums worldwide.  It spawned two singles, "Money" and "Time". In addition to its commercial success, The Dark Side of the Moon is one of Pink Floyd's most popular albums among fans and critics, and is frequently ranked as one of the greatest albums of all time. Dark Side of the Moon frequently appears on rankings of the greatest albums of all-time. In 1987, Rolling Stone listed the record 35th on its "Top 100 Albums of the Last 20 Years", and sixteen years later, in 2003 the album polled in 43rd position on the magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In 2012, Dark Side of the Moon was voted 43rd on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In 2006, it was voted "My Favorite Album" by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's audience. The album is also number two on the "Definitive 200" list of albums, made by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers "in celebration of the art form of the record album". It came 29th in The Observer's 2006 list of "The 50 Albums That Changed Music", and 37th in The Guardian's 1997 list of the "100 Best Albums Ever", as voted for by a panel of artists and music critics. The album's cover has been lauded by critics and listeners alike, VH1 proclaiming it the fourth greatest in history, and Planet Rock listeners the greatest of all time. In 2013, The Dark Side of the Moon was selected for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Chart (1973) Peak
position Australian Albums (ARIA) 11 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) 42 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia 28 Canadian RPM 100 Albums 1 Dutch Albums (MegaCharts) 2 Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) 10 French Albums (SNEP) 94 ? France LOL Italian Albums (FIMI) 2 New Zealand Albums (Recorded Music NZ) 1 Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) 2 UK Albums Chart (OCC) 2 USA Billboard Top LPs & Tapes 1

Tracks

Side one No. Title Writer Lead vocals Length 1. "Speak to Me"   Mason Instrumental 1:30 2. "Breathe"   Waters, Gilmour, Wright Gilmour 2:43 3. "On the Run"   Gilmour, Waters Instrumental 3:36 4. "Time" (includes "Breathe (Reprise)") Mason, Waters, Wright, Gilmour    Gilmour, Wright 7:01 5. "The Great Gig in the Sky"   Wright, Clare Torry[nb 11] Torry 4:36 Side two No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length 6. "Money"   Waters Gilmour 6:22 7. "Us and Them"   Waters, Wright Gilmour, Wright 7:46 8. "Any Colour You Like"   Gilmour, Mason, Wright Instrumental 3:25 9. "Brain Damage"   Waters Waters 3:48 10. "Eclipse"   Waters Waters 2:03

Personnel

Pink Floyd

• David Gilmour – vocals, guitar, VCS3, EMS Synthi AKS, lap steel guitar, pedal steel guitar
• Nick Mason – drums, rototoms, percussion, tape effects,
• Richard Wright – vocals, VCS3, EMS Synthi A, farfisa organ, Wurlitzer electric piano, Hammond Organ, synthesizers
• Roger Waters – bass guitar, vocals, VCS3, tape effects

Additional musicians

• Dick Parry – saxophone on "Us and Them" and "Money"
• Doris Troy – backing vocals
• Lesley Duncan – backing vocals
• Liza Strike – backing vocals
• Barry St. John – backing vocals
• Clare Torry – vocals on "The Great Gig in the Sky"

Production

• Alan Parsons – engineer
• Peter James – assistant
• Chris Thomas – mixing supervisor
• Hipgnosis – sleeve design, photography
• George Hardie – sleeve and stickers art

PLEASE BE ADVISED, ALL MY LISTINGS ARE FREE SAME OR ONE BUSINESS DAY SHIPPING, WHICH  MEANS ITEMS SHIPS IN THAT TIME FRAME AFTER PAYMENT HAS BEEN COMPLETED. NOT THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE ITEM IN ONE DAY, ALSO ALL ITEMS ARE MONEY BACK GUARANTEED AND NEGOTIBLE JUST CONTACT ME I WILL GET BACK TO YOU WITHIN A 12 HOUR PERIOD, IF YOU EXPERIENCE ANY PROBLEMS AT ALL PLEASE CONACT ME BEFORE FEEDBACK OR OPENING A CASE. I AM EASY TO GET ALONG WITH AND I WILL MAKE THINGS RIGHT. THANK YOU FOR STOPPING BY AND PLEASE BROWSE, SINCE I AM NOT AN EBAY STORE, ALL RETURN CUSTOMERS GET A DISCOUNTS FOR THE REST MONTH PURCHASE AND ALL OF THE FOLLING MONTH OF 10% AUCTIONS WON AND 15% ON ALL BUY NOW JUST REMIND WHEN WHEN MAKING ANOTHER PURCHASE WITHIN THAT TIME FRAME