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"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 .
On Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd, the song has a different ending: instead of segueing into what would be the next track on The Dark Side of the Moon ("Any Colour You Like"), engineer and Floyd collaborator James Guthrie gave the song a cold ending, before adding a backwards piano note that would lead into the collection's next track ...
The choruses include the lyric "I'll see you on the dark side of the moon." Eclipse seems to be partially inspired by former band member Syd Barrett who had endured a mental breakdown. After road testing the new suite entitled "A Piece for Assorted Lunatics", the song was recorded in October along with "Any Colour You Like".
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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.
Stoppard was first approached with the idea of writing a play based on the album in 1973, but had "no idea" how to approach it until much later. [1] BBC's radio drama producer James Robinson said that the initial idea was "to see what sort of a journey the album takes Tom Stoppard on."
"Arnold Layne," released on 11 March 1967, reached #20 in the charts, [3] while "See Emily Play," released 16 June 1967, made it to #6, [4] their highest-charting single in the UK until the release of "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" in 1979.
London '66–'67 is an EP and film of Pink Floyd music, containing two "lost" tracks—an extended version of "Interstellar Overdrive" and a previously unreleased track "Nick's Boogie".