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... Pink Floyd was able to overcome such adversity not once, but twice. ... Along with Nick Mason on drums and Richard Wright on keyboards, Pink Floyd toured with the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. ... It was in 1973, however, that the band went to Abbey Road studios in London to record their epic masterpiece, Dark Side of the Moon. Seen largely as Roger Waters’ tour-de-force, Dark Side would go on to break numerous records, staying in the Billboard music charts for fourteen years, and selling an unprecedented 30 million copies. ...
The album Dark Side of the Moon is what’s known as a concept album. ... Another key element of concept albums, Dark Side of the Moon in particular, is that of one sustaining, cohesive theme running through songs which lead into one another. The music on Dark Side stops only once on the entire album. The idea of piecing the album together as a series of different lyrics that had a theme running through them is attributed to Waters, who cites the B side of The Beatles’ Abbey Road as his main inspiration.
Dark Side of the Moon is a relatively short album, only forty-two minutes in length and consisting of only nine tracks. ... Torry did about three takes, after Parsons and the members of Pink Floyd decided that was all they needed to piece together the lament. ... It is also where the title Dark Side of the Moon comes from, as it is a lyric in the song. Following “Brain Damage” is the most climactic moment of any album, the powerful “Eclipse”, representing dark overshadowing light, and symbolizing the triumph of evil over good, insanity over sanity.
Approximate Word count = 1298
Approximate Pages = 5.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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