Pink Floyd Discography
Dark side of the Moon
TRACKS
Speak To Me (Mason) [01:10] Instrumental.
Breathe (Waters, Gilmour, Wright) [02:47] Vocals by Gilmour.
On The Run (Gilmor, Waters) [03:51] Instrumental.
Time (Mason, Waters, Wright, Gilmour) [05:54] Vocals by Gilmour and Wright.
Breathe Reprise (Waters, Gilmour, Wright) [01:11] Vocals by Gilmour.
The Great Gig in the Sky (Wright) [04:47] Vocals by Clare Torry.
Money (Waters) [06:23] Vocals by Gilmour.
Us And Them (Waters, Wright) [07:48] Vocals by Wright and Gilmour.
Any Colour You Like (Gilmour, Mason, Wright) [03:25] Instrumental.
Brain Damage (Waters) [03:50] Vocals by Waters.
Eclipse (Waters) [02:06] Vocals by Waters with Gilmour at the end.
Total Playing Time: 42:52
MAIN ARTISTS
David Gilmour - Guitar, Vocals & VCS3
Roger Waters - Bass Guitar,Vocals, VCS3 & Tape Effects
Nick Mason - Percussion & Tape Effects
Richard Wright - Keyboards Vocals & VCS3
Lyrics - Roger Waters
Supporting Artists/Management
Produced by - PINK FLOYD
Recorded at - Abbey Road Studios, London
Between June 1972 and January 1973
Engineer - Alan Parsons
Assistant - Peter James
Mixing Supervised by - Chris Thomas
Saxophone on 'Us and Them' and 'Money' by - Dick Parry
Vocals on 'The Great Gig In The Sky' by - Clare Torry
Backing Vocals by - Doris Troy, Leslie Duncan, Liza Strike, Barry
St.John
Remastering Supervised by - James Guthrie
Digitally Re-mastered by - Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab, L.A.
Sleeve Design by - Hipgnosis
Sleeve and Sticker Art by - George Hardie N.T.A.
Prism Photograph by - Tony May and Storm Thorgerson
Live Photographs by - Hipgnosis
Photograms by - Stylorouge and Chris Craske
INFO
Dark Side of the moon was recorded at Abbey Road
on the new 16-track desk recently installed, Dark side
of the moon is a group os songs all recorded in perfect haromony back
to back as if to protray many different moods or feelings. The album
according to Roger Waters is about madness. This CD woudl later become
the center of much controversey with a law suit presented to the band
by Roger Waters claiming total ownership.
Its success was so great--legend has it that there was an EMI factory
which did nothing but make "Dark Side of the Moon" CDs--that it enabled
the album's U.S. chart run to top 730 weeks.
It is the fourth best seller rock album of all time. The others are
Thriller, Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack), Rumors by fleetwood mac It
stayed on Billboard's top 200 album chart until April 23, 1988, and
after that they changed the format so that once an album dropped
off, it could not return. It stayed there for 723 weeks, the longest of
any album, ever.
QUOTES
Nick Mason: "Dark Side started as a sequence called Eclipse. Most of it
was developed in rehearsals for live shows, and we played it live
at the Rainbow in London and opened shows with it in America in 1972.
The concept grew out of group discussions about the pressures of real
life, like travel or money, but then Roger broadened it into a
meditation on the causes of insanity. The linking of all the sounds and
the voices was very well done, I think, and we introduced an early
synthesizer, the VCS3, right at the end. The recording was
lengthly but not fraught, not agonised over at all. We were working
really well as a band, But it wasn't only the music that made it such a
success. EMI/Capitol had cleaned up their act in America. They put
money behind promoting us for the first time. And that changed
everything."
David Gilmour: "The big difference for me with this album was the fact
that we'd played it live before we recorded it. You could't do that now
of course, you'd be bootlegged out of existence. But when we went
into the studio we all knew the material. The playing was very good. It
had a natural feel. And it was a bloody good package. The music,
the concept, the cover, all came together. For me it was the first time
we'd had great lyrics. The others were satisfactory, or
perfunctory or just plain bad. On Dark Side, Roger decided he didn't
want anyone else writing lyrics."
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