On March 1, 1973 the British band Pink Floyd released the album "The Dark Side of the Moon", his eighth studio recording and one of the best rock albums of all time.
Integrated by Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright band began experimenting in concerts and recordings with previous new sounds that were giving new ideas for what would be the new album. Even at and have them ready, new songs were played on tours that give the band in 1972, many months before they entered to record the material. The album was recorded in two sessions enter 1972 and 1973 at Abbey Road Studios in London.
Alan Parsons was the engineer and Chris Thomas made blends disk, achieving a conceptual revolution by using the most advanced of the time when using loops multitrack recordings and recording techniques. The cover art was in charge of Hipsnosis group.
His lyrics are philosophical and direct, of death, of mental disorders, greed speak. In an interview given by Gilmour he said: "I think we all thought - and Roger definitely thought- that many of the letters that had been using were too indirect. There was definitely a feeling that the words were going to be very clear and specific ".
The album was produced by Harvest Records and is composed of 10 songs: "Speak to Me", "Breathe", "On the Run", "Time", "The Great Gig in the Sky", "Money", "Us and them "," Any Color Your Like "," Brain Demage "and" Eclipse "for a total of 42:59 minutes of pure psychedelia, rock and instrumental music.
When editing the record culminated Waters said: "When the album was finished I took a copy home and put it to my wife. I remember when finally began to mourn. And I thought, 'This has obviously struck a chord in some way "and felt quite satisfied. You know when you've done something, certainly if you have created a piece of music, you hear with new ears when you put it to someone else. And at that point I thought to myself, Wow !, this is a pretty thorough job "and had confidence that people would respond."
The album was the most successful of all time, managing to be on the Billboard 200 chart for 889 consecutive weeks, ie more than 17 years. He has sold over 45 million copies, and occupies the 6th place of the best selling album in the UK and has been reprinted twice.
Meanwhile Mason said: "I think that when it was finished, everyone thought it was the best we had done so far, and everyone was very happy with it, but in no ways no one thought it was five Meddle better times, or eight times better than Atom Heart Mother, or sales has actually had. It was [...] not only that it was a good album, but also to be at the right time and place. "
Today the album is a mandatory source for musicians and lovers rock, leaving a legacy that endures and will endure over time as one of the best albums ever recorded.
