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"Money" is a song by English rock band Pink Floyd from their 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon. Written by Roger Waters , it opened side two of the original album. 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 .
The Wall was supported by Pink Floyd's first single since "Money", "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)", which topped the charts in the US and the UK. [174] The Wall was released on 30 November 1979 and topped the Billboard chart in the US for 15 weeks, reaching number three in the UK. [175]
"Any Colour You Like" is the eighth track [nb 1] on The Dark Side of the Moon, [2] [3] English rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album. It is an instrumental written by David Gilmour , Richard Wright and Nick Mason .
Then a 1997 remastered CD was re-released in 2000 on Capitol Records in the US and EMI for the rest of the world including Europe. The album was released once again in 2016 under the band's Pink Floyd Records imprint, distributed by Sony Music internationally and by Warner Music in Europe, and was released on LP as well as CD.
The first use of pedals on a pipe organ grew out of the need to hold bass drone notes, to support the polyphonic musical styles that predominated in the Renaissance. Indeed, the term pedal point, which refers to a prolonged bass tone under changing upper harmonies, derives from the use of the organ pedalboard to hold sustained bass notes. [2]
In March 1983, the last Pink Floyd album with Waters, The Final Cut, was released. It was subtitled: "A requiem for the post-war dream by Roger Waters, performed by Pink Floyd". [1] Waters wrote all the album's lyrics and music, causing Rolling Stone to view the work as "essentially a Roger Waters solo album". [2]
Pink Floyd. David Gilmour – guitar, lead and backing vocals, pedal steel guitar on "Shine on You Crazy Diamond," and "The Great Gig in the Sky," Synthi AKS on “On the Run,” [2] Hammond organ on "The Great Gig in the Sky" Roger Waters – bass, lead and backing vocals, additional keyboards on "Echoes" [3]
Meddle is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released by Harvest Records on 5 November 1971 in the United Kingdom. [3] The album was produced between the band's touring commitments, from January to August 1971 at a series of locations around London, including EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios) and Morgan Studios.