The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd

The Music Studio Album “The Dark Side of the Moon” was released on March 17, 1973 by the music band Pink Floyd. This music album was produced by Pink Floyd and labeled by Harvest, EMI and Capital. The style of art music of the album is based on Progressive Rock. The album songs lyrics all are written by Roger Waters. The songs are classically explores the experiences of human life. 42:59 is the full length of the music album and the music album songs were shouted on Abbey Road Studios in London, UK.

This Music Album and its songs were reached better position on many countries charts. Especially, in US Billboard 200 album chart, the music album stayed 14 weeks on top. “The Dark Side of the Moon” music album is one of the Second Highest Selling Album Globally of All Time in US. The music album was sold crossed over 40 millions copies worldwide.

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Personals from the Music Album

The music band was recorded most advanced sound effect techniques to this album and its songs at that time. The quadraphonic surround sound mix is used to these album songs. The personals from the music album are as follows; Gilmour (lead vocals, guitar, VCS3 Synthesizer and production), Nick Mason (percussion and etc), Waters (bass guitar, tape effects, VCS3 and etc), Richard (Keyboards, vocals and etc), Torry (vocals), Background vocals by ( Lesley Duncan, Doris, Barry St. john, Liza Strike), Dick Parry (saxophone), Alan (engineer) , Peter James (assistant engineer), Thomas (mixing consultant), Hipgnosis (design), Hardie (illustrations and Sleeve art), Jill (photography), Sinclair (CD re- release), Drew Vogel (art and photography).

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Songs List of the Music Album

Side one of the music album has contains 5 songs are as, “Speak to Me”, “Breathe”, “On the Run”, “Time” and “The Great Gig in the Sky”. Another side of the album has contains 3 songs are as, “Money”. “Us and Them” and “Any Colour You Like”. All the songs are big hits, well received by many countries peoples and also reached better on many music albums and songs charts.

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Chart Presentation of the Music Album

The Music album “The Dark Side of the Moon” was topped to the number 1 position on US Billboard’s Pop Albums. In UK Album Chart and Norway Albums Chart, the music album was peaked to the number 2. In 1993, the music album was released by the music band and also reached to the number 4 on UK, Norway albums charts. The Rolling Stone’s 100 greatest album covers of all time lists, the music album was ranked to the 35th position and 43rd position on its 500 greatest albums of all time lists. In VH1’s 50 greatest album covers of all time, the music album was topped 4th position. In 2006, The Australian Broadcasting Corporation voted to this music album for My Favorite Album.

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Sources

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