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On April 17, 2010, Warner Bros. released 5,000 copies of The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon on 12" seafoam green vinyl as part of Record Store Day. Upon release the record was released on both seafoam green and clear vinyl with a CD copy of the album included.
In March 1973, the London quartet Pink Floyd released The Dark Side of the Moon, an enigmatic but richly melodic concept album about madness and mortality. Since emerging during the 1967 “summer ...
On 10 March 2004, the song was used to wake the Mars probe Opportunity.It was chosen in recognition of the transit of the Martian moon Phobos. [9] This is not the first time Pink Floyd has been played in outer space; Soviet cosmonauts took and played an advance copy of Delicate Sound of Thunder aboard Soyuz TM-7, making it the first album played in space.
The song features music by keyboard player Richard Wright and improvised, wordless vocals by session singer Clare Torry. It is one of only three Pink Floyd songs to feature lead vocals from an outside artist. [nb 2] The Great Gig in the Sky was released as a digital single on February 10, 2023, to promote The Dark Side of the Moon 50th ...
When the band reconvened after the American leg of the Meddle tour, Roger Waters brought with him a prototype version of "Brain Damage" along with other songs such as "Money". He had been playing the song during the recording of the Meddle album in 1971, when it was called "The Dark Side of the Moon". Eventually this title would be used for the ...
The authorship and composition of this song is credited to David Gilmour and Richard Wright for the music and Roger Waters for the lyrics. [2] Waters said The Dark Side of the Moon "is a little adolescent and naïve in its preoccupations, but I'm not belittling it. It's like a rather wonderful, naïve painting.
The Dark Side of the Moon became one of the best-selling albums of all time [101] and is in the top 25 of a list of best-selling albums in the United States. [56] [102] Although it held the number one spot in the US for only a week, it remained in the Billboard 200 albums chart for 736 nonconsecutive weeks (from 17 March 1973 to 16 July 1988).
The January full moon, also known as the "Wolf Moon" will be visible at 12:54 p.m. on Jan. 25, 2024. More: Students and astronomy club members view Asheville's Oct. 14 eclipse. What did they see?