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The Dark Side of the Moon The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1973 by Harvest Records. It built on ideas explored in Pink Floyd's earlier recordings and performances, but without the extended instrumentals that characterised their earlier work. A concept album, its themes explore conflict, greed, time, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by the deteriorating health of founding member Syd Barrett, who left in 1968. Developed during live performances, Pink Floyd premiered an early version of "The Dark Side of the Moon" several
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until his departure in 1985. He wrote most of the lyrics to the five Pink Floyd albums preceding his departure, starting with "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973) and ending with "The Final Cut" (1983), while exerting progressively more creative control over the band and its music. Every Waters studio album since "The Dark Side of the Moon" has been a concept album. With lyrics written entirely by Waters, "The Dark Side of the Moon" was one of the most commercially successful rock albums ever. It spent 736 straight weeks on the "Billboard" 200 chart—until July 1988—and sold over
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Dark Side of the Moon Tour The Dark Side of the Moon Tour was a concert tour by British rock band Pink Floyd in 1972 and 1973 in support of their album "The Dark Side of the Moon". There were two separate legs promoting "Dark Side of the Moon", one in 1972 before the album's release and another in 1973 after its release. Playing 93 shows in 1972, the most until 1994, Pink Floyd debuted the live performance before its release not of a song but a whole album. The original title was "Eclipse", then "Dark Side of the Moon
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Clouds", "When You're In" and "Echoes". An early 1973 set list (until mid-March) included: First Set: Second Set:<br> "The Dark Side of the Moon" entire album<br> Encore: For remainder of 1973 (except 4 November), the set list included: First Set: Second Set: <br> "The Dark Side of the Moon" entire album<br> Encore: In 1973, the band moved "Dark Side of the Moon" to the second set (where it would reside through 1975), and played the album version of the piece, notably the revamped versions of "On the Run" and "The Great Gig in the Sky." 1973 saw Pink Floyd go
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song. After he had recorded the "Radio KAOS" album, which ended with a simulated nuclear attack in the song "Four Minutes," his record company informed him that the album was too bleak and needed a more upbeat ending. Waters then recorded and added "The Tide Is Turning" to give the album a more optimistic finish. It was released as a CD single that included a live version of the Pink Floyd song "Money", written by Waters for their highly successful 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon". It was recorded during Waters' "Radio K.A.O.S." Tour, in which he toured
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The band made their live debut in May 2018 in front of an invited audience at Dingwalls in London, playing a selection of Pink Floyd material released before their 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon". This was followed by three small shows at The Half Moon, Putney and European tour in September 2018. In 2016, Mason curated the Pink Floyd boxset, "The Early Years 1965-1972," which documents the pre-"Dark Side of the Moon" (1973) era of psychedelia and experimentation and the band replacing guitarist and frontman, Syd Barrett with David Gilmour. The boxset contains much live material from
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The Dark Side of the Moon The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1973 by Harvest Records. It built on ideas explored in Pink Floyd's earlier recordings and performances, but without the extended instrumentals that characterised their earlier work. A concept album, its themes explore conflict, greed, time, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by the deteriorating health of founding member Syd Barrett, who left in 1968. Developed during live performances, Pink Floyd premiered an early version of "The Dark Side of the Moon" several
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May 30, 1990. German black metal band Nargaroth uses samples of spoken word (albeit dubbed in German) of the film in their homonymous track of the 2004 album "Prosatanica Shooting Angels". Swedish death metal band Crypt of Kerberos utilizes samples from the film in their 1991 track "Devastator." The film is a reference to the 1973 Pink Floyd album of the same name. The Dark Side of the Moon (1990 film) The Dark Side of the Moon is a 1990 direct-to-video science fiction horror film. It was directed by D. J. Webster from the screenplay by brothers Chad and Carey
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the group in 1985. The band recorded several albums, achieving worldwide success with "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973), "Wish You Were Here" (1975), "Animals" (1977), and "The Wall" (1979); all except "Animals" reached number one in the US. "The Dark Side of the Moon" is one of the best-selling albums in the world and "The Wall" is the highest-certified multiple-disc album by the Recording Industry Association of America. In 1986, Waters declared Pink Floyd "a spent force" and sued to dissolve their partnership and retire the name Pink Floyd, but the remaining members, led by Gilmour, continued recording
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during "Time", and Dorothy balancing on a tightrope fence during the line "balanced on the biggest wave" in "Breathe". David Gilmour and Nick Mason have both denied a connection between the two works, and Roger Waters has described the rumours as "amusing". Alan Parsons has stated that the film was not mentioned during production of the album. Pink Floyd Additional musicians Production Design Informational notes Citations Bibliography The Dark Side of the Moon The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1973 by Harvest Records. It built
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calling the album "a soundtrack to a non-existent movie", and shrugging off Pink Floyd as "so much sound and fury, signifying nothing". "Meddle" is a transitional album between the Barrett-influenced group of the late 1960s and the emerging Pink Floyd. The LP peaked at number 3, spending 82 weeks on the UK chart. Pink Floyd recorded "The Dark Side of the Moon" between May 1972 and January 1973, with EMI staff engineer Alan Parsons at Abbey Road. The title is an allusion to lunacy rather than astronomy. The band had composed and refined the material on "Dark Side" while touring
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"Breathe" (including the reprise that follows "Time"), "Wish You Were Here" and "Comfortably Numb". Unusually for a live Pink Floyd performance, at Live 8 the band kept the song's solo to three choruses, as it is on the album. Gilmour played the song regularly during his Rattle That Lock Tour in 2015 and 2016. Pink Floyd's album Dark Side of the Moon was released March 1, 1973. Money places number six on the album, and is the only song from Dark Side of the Moon to make its appearance on Billboards top 100 list of 1973. The song quickly makes
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be heard on the Pink Floyd album "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973), at the end of the song "Money". He was recalling a fight he had the night before with his wife. In 1975 McCullough joined The Frankie Miller Band with bassist Chris Stewart, keyboard player Mick Weaver and drummer Stu Perry. They recorded the album, The Rock with Miller. The song "Ain't Got No Money" taken from this album, inspired Bob Seger to write and record "The Fire Down Below". Later the same year McCullough released "Mind Your Own Business" on George Harrison's Dark Horse label. McCullough
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into a new song known as "Us and Them", which was released on their album "The Dark Side of the Moon" in 1973. "The Violent Sequence" remained unreleased until it was included on a 2011 boxed set of "Dark Side of the Moon", where it was named "Us and them (Richard Wright Demo)". Other discarded pieces recorded for the film, by Pink Floyd, were released on a bonus disc with the 1997 CD re-release of the soundtrack album, along with pieces by Jerry Garcia. John Fahey was flown to Rome to record some music for the film, but that was
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album as "mindblowing," while "The Morton Report" called it "brilliant" and "a worthy re-interpretation not to be missed." From the Dark Side of the Moon From the Dark Side of the Moon is a 2011 album released by singer/songwriter Mary Fahl. The album is a song-by-song "re-imagining" of Pink Floyd's classic 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon". As of September 2006 Fahl completed the recording of "Mary Fahl: From the Dark Side of the Moon," produced by Mark Doyle and David Werner and mixed by Bob Clearmountain. Doyle also provided nearly all of the instrumentation. The album remained
From the Dark Side of the Moon
From the Dark Side of the Moon From the Dark Side of the Moon is a 2011 album released by singer/songwriter Mary Fahl. The album is a song-by-song "re-imagining" of Pink Floyd's classic 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon". As of September 2006 Fahl completed the recording of "Mary Fahl: From the Dark Side of the Moon," produced by Mark Doyle and David Werner and mixed by Bob Clearmountain. Doyle also provided nearly all of the instrumentation. The album remained unreleased for several years, and Fahl released it independently on May 10, 2011. Publication "Nippertown" referred to the
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The Division Bell The Division Bell is the fourteenth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 28 March 1994 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and on 4 April by Columbia Records in the United States. The second Pink Floyd album recorded without founding member Roger Waters, "The Division Bell" was written mostly by guitarist and singer David Gilmour and keyboardist Richard Wright; it features Wright's first lead vocal on a Pink Floyd album since "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973). Gilmour's fiancée, novelist Polly Samson, co-wrote many of the lyrics, which deal
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great reverence for Floyd. We felt as if we were the sons of a certain musical father (in a collective sense) and that it was now time for the son to assert his independence". Weird Owl Additional production Nuclear Psychology Nuclear Psychology is an EP by the American psychedelic rock band Weird Owl, released on February 21, 2007. The album was partially recorded at Seaside Lounge Studios in Brooklyn, New York City. The EP's cover art is a reference to the cover art for the 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon" by English rock band Pink Floyd. Trevor
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Easy Star All-Stars Easy Star All-Stars is a reggae collective founded in 1997 by Michael Goldwasser, Eric Smith, Lem Oppenheimer and Remy Gerstein of New York City-based Easy Star Records. The band is known for its reinterpretations of classic albums in reggae style. Their first album, released in 2003, was "Dub Side of the Moon," an interpretation of Pink Floyd's 1973 album "Dark Side of the Moon." This was followed by "Radiodread" (2006), an interpretation of Radiohead's 1997 album "OK Computer;" "Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band" (2009), an interpretation the Beatles' 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band";
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17 March before an audience of 6,000. The album reached the "Billboard" Top LPs & Tape chart's number one spot on 28 April 1973, and was so successful that the band returned two months later for another tour. Much of the album's early American success is attributed to the efforts of Pink Floyd's US record company, Capitol Records. Newly appointed chairman Bhaskar Menon set about trying to reverse the relatively poor sales of the band's 1971 studio album "Meddle". Meanwhile, disenchanted with Capitol, the band and manager O'Rourke had been quietly negotiating a new contract with CBS president Clive Davis,
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Nuclear Psychology Nuclear Psychology is an EP by the American psychedelic rock band Weird Owl, released on February 21, 2007. The album was partially recorded at Seaside Lounge Studios in Brooklyn, New York City. The EP's cover art is a reference to the cover art for the 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon" by English rock band Pink Floyd. Trevor Tyrrell, guitarist and lead vocalist for Weird Owl, has stated that "the cover was a quick joke having more to do with our self-presumed spot in the continuum of mind-music more than it has to do with any
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the earth from a balloon launched at the beginning of the ceremony. In "The Sopranos" episode "Mergers and Acquisitions", the song finishes when Tony Soprano wakes up from listening to all of "The Dark Side of the Moon". with: Eclipse (song) "Eclipse" is the tenth and final track from British progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album, "The Dark Side of the Moon". It was sung by Roger Waters, with harmonies by David Gilmour and Rick Wright. After Waters left the band, Gilmour sang the lead when performing live. This song was one of several to be considered for the
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the air, the band rocked and rolled, and then gushed and tripped away into the night." Steve Peacock of "Sounds" wrote: "I don't care if you've never heard a note of the Pink Floyd's music in your life, I'd unreservedly recommend everyone to "The Dark Side of the Moon"". In his 1973 review for "Rolling Stone" magazine, Loyd Grossman declared "Dark Side" "a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement". In "Rock Albums of the Seventies" (1981), Robert Christgau found its lyrical ideas clichéd and its music pretentious, but called it a
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The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon is a collaborative studio album by the psychedelic rock group The Flaming Lips. The album is a complete track-for-track reimagining of Pink Floyd's seminal 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon". The album was released through the iTunes Store on December 22, 2009, and was released on other digital music retailers a week later. On April 17, 2010, Warner
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album in their unranked year-end polls. Praise for the album overwhelmed the band; Greenwood felt the praise had been exaggerated because "The Bends" had been "under-reviewed possibly and under-received." They rejected links to progressive rock and art rock, despite frequent comparisons made to Pink Floyd's 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon". Yorke responded: "We write pop songs ... there was no intention of it being 'art'. It's a reflection of all the disparate things we were listening to when we recorded it." He was nevertheless pleased that listeners identified the album's influences: "What really blew my head off
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entirely, to avoid the seamless transition to "Any Colour You Like" that occurs on "The Dark Side of the Moon". The following dialogue by the band's roadie, Roger "The Hat" Manifold, one of his two spoken segments on the album, is heard before the second saxophone solo: Us and Them (song) "Us and Them" is a song by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, from their 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon". The music was written by Richard Wright with lyrics by Roger Waters. It is sung by David Gilmour, with harmonies by Wright. The song is
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considerably modified, to be more keyboard-heavy, though not extended, as in all earlier performances. This version is included on "Pulse". Waters performed it in his 2006–08 "The Dark Side of the Moon Live" tour. Any Colour You Like "Any Colour You Like" is the eighth track from English progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album, "The Dark Side of the Moon". It is an instrumental written by David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason, making it one of three tracks on the album that Roger Waters did not receive writing credit for, the last Pink Floyd track that Waters had
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Us and Them (song) "Us and Them" is a song by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, from their 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon". The music was written by Richard Wright with lyrics by Roger Waters. It is sung by David Gilmour, with harmonies by Wright. The song is 7 minutes, 51 seconds in length, making it the longest on the album. "Us and Them" was released as the second single from "The Dark Side of the Moon" in the United States, peaking at No. 72 on the "Cash Box" Top 100 Singles chart in March
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two charting singles and a successful debut album, "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" (1967). Guitarist and vocalist David Gilmour joined in December 1967; Barrett left in April 1968 due to deteriorating mental health. Waters became the band's primary lyricist and conceptual leader, devising the concepts behind their albums "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973), "Wish You Were Here" (1975), "Animals" (1977), "The Wall" (1979) and "The Final Cut" (1983). "The Dark Side of the Moon" and "The Wall" became two of the best-selling albums of all time. Following creative tensions, Wright left Pink Floyd in 1979, followed
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involvement." Throughout March 1973, "The Dark Side of the Moon" featured as part of Pink Floyd's US tour. The album is one of the most commercially successful rock albums of all time; a US number 1, it remained on the "Billboard" chart for more than fourteen years, selling more than 45 million copies worldwide. In Britain, the album peaked at number 2, spending 364 weeks on the UK chart. "Dark Side" is the world's third best-selling album, and the twenty-first best-selling album of all time in the US. The success of the album brought enormous wealth to the members of
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Return to the Dark Side of the Moon "Not to be confused with the covermount album of the same name with Mojo magazine in 2011" Return to the Dark Side of the Moon is a tribute album organised by Billy Sherwood, and released in 2006 on Purple Pyramid. It is a re-creation of Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon", and a sequel to Sherwood's "Back Against the Wall", itself a re-creation of Pink Floyd's "The Wall". "Return to the Dark Side of the Moon", in addition includes an original piece composed by Sherwood (and recorded with Tony Kaye
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can be found in the "Experience" 2-CD and "Immersion" box set editions of "The Dark Side of the Moon": The following track can be found in "" of "The Early Years 1965–1972" box set: Pink Floyd with Live at the Empire Pool Live at the Empire Pool is a live album by the progressive rock band, Pink Floyd, recorded by BBC Radio 1. The album has not been released as a standalone album but has been released in parts as part of other Pink Floyd releases; namely the "Dark Side of the Moon" and "Wish You Were Here" immersion box
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"Fingal's Cave" and another called "Oenone" were recorded but did not appear on the finished album. Pink Floyd also recorded other unreleased material during the same sessions. Most notable is a lengthy composition which at that time was known as "The Violent Sequence" (later released on Dark Side of the Moon Immersion Box Set). This was later reworked, as "Us and Them" from "The Dark Side of the Moon". Zabriskie Point (album) Zabriskie Point is a soundtrack album to the Michelangelo Antonioni film of the same name. It was originally released in March 1970 and comprises songs from various artists.
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visual clip of the album in its record form. In a 2014 Drum Corps International show, performed by the Colts, Dark Side of the Rainbow is portrayed as a world in which the Scarecrow rules Oz after Dorothy has left. Dark Side of the Rainbow Dark Side of the Rainbow – also known as Dark Side of Oz or The Wizard of Floyd – refers to the pairing of the 1973 Pink Floyd album "The Dark Side of the Moon" with the visual portion of the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz." In August 1995, the "Fort Wayne (Indiana) Journal
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entirety, and a range of performers have used samples from "The Dark Side of the Moon" in their own material. Jam-rock band Phish performed a semi-improvised version of the entire album as part their show on 2 November 1998 in West Valley City, Utah. Progressive metal band Dream Theater have twice covered the album in their live shows, and in May 2011 Mary Fahl released "From the Dark Side of the Moon", a song-by-song "re-imagining" of the album. Milli Vanilli used the tape loops from Pink Floyd's "Money" to open their track "Money", followed by Marky Mark and the Funky
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film in the studio at the time they recorded the album. "Dark Side of the Moon" audio engineer Alan Parsons in 2003 dismissed the supposed effect: Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason told MTV in 1997, "It's absolute nonsense. It has nothing to do with "The Wizard of Oz". It was all based on "The Sound of Music"." Film critic Richard Roeper published his assessment of the phenomenon, which he referred to as "Dark Side of Oz." Roeper concluded that while the band may have had the resources and technical know-how to produce an alternative film soundtrack, undergoing such an endeavor
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to secure a contract renewal with Pink Floyd were in vain however; at the beginning of 1974, the band signed for Columbia with a reported advance fee of $1M (in Britain and Europe they continued to be represented by Harvest Records). "The Dark Side of the Moon" became one of the best-selling albums of all time and is in the top 25 of a list of best-selling albums in the United States. Although it held the number one spot in the US for only a week, it remained in the "Billboard" album chart for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988.
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during their tour, The Dark Side of the Moon Live. The song was used by longtime public address announcers Tommy Edwards and Ray Clay of the Chicago Bulls organization during the Michael Jordan era as the theme for the visiting team at Bulls home games. This also marked the first use of songs of any kind in the live setting in the NBA. with: On the Run (instrumental) "On the Run" is the third track from British progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album, "The Dark Side of the Moon". It is an instrumental piece performed on an EMS synthesizer
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groovy, and Gnostic, relating to ancient learning." Hipgnosis gained major international prominence in 1973 with their famed cover design for Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon". The final design was one of several versions prepared for the band to choose from, but according to drummer Nick Mason, the 'prism/pyramid' design was the immediate and unanimous choice. The record itself was wildly successful—it became one of the biggest-selling and longest-charting albums of all time, putting it in the hands of millions of fans, and it has since been hailed as one of the best album covers of all time
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Festival. Due to the overwhelming chart success of both "Dark Side of the Moon", which reached #1 in the US in late April, #2 in the UK, and the US-released single "Money", the nature of Pink Floyd's audiences changed in June 1973. They used to play at theaters and auditoriums but in this tour they played at Stadiums and large arenas. On 4 November 1973, Pink Floyd played two shows at London's Rainbow Theatre to benefit musician Robert Wyatt formerly the drummer of Soft Machine, a band they'd played with in their UFO Club days. While at a birthday party
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The Dark Side of the Moo The Dark Side of the Moo is an early bootleg recording of the English progressive rock group Pink Floyd, featuring recordings not available on albums released in the US. Unlike other bootlegs containing previously unheard material, the album is made up of recordings that had at least one commercial release. The name is an obvious pun on "The Dark Side of the Moon", the band's most commercially successful album, and the front cover of "Atom Heart Mother", which featured a cow. The album was created by an anonymous label known as "Trixie Records" by
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Dub Side of the Moon Dub Side of the Moon is a dub reggae tribute to the 1973 Pink Floyd album, "The Dark Side of the Moon", co-produced by Easy Star All-Stars founders Michael G (Michael Goldwasser) and Ticklah (Victor Axelrod). "Dub Side of the Moon" has remained on the Billboard Reggae Charts since its release in 2003. Easy Star All Stars released "Dub Side of the Moon: Special Anniversary Edition", on CD and vinyl, on September 16, 2014. Included with the liner notes are instructions on how to synchronize the album with the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz"
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bonus tracks. Dub Side of the Moon Dub Side of the Moon is a dub reggae tribute to the 1973 Pink Floyd album, "The Dark Side of the Moon", co-produced by Easy Star All-Stars founders Michael G (Michael Goldwasser) and Ticklah (Victor Axelrod). "Dub Side of the Moon" has remained on the Billboard Reggae Charts since its release in 2003. Easy Star All Stars released "Dub Side of the Moon: Special Anniversary Edition", on CD and vinyl, on September 16, 2014. Included with the liner notes are instructions on how to synchronize the album with the 1939 film "The Wizard
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by Metal Hammer GR, to record a cover of Pink Floyd's "Time" from The Dark Side Of The Moon. The track was part of "Landing on the Dark Side of the Moon" album, essentially a tribute to The Dark Side of the Moon. On 15 November, Sorrowful Angels opened for Diary of Dreams in Athens. This was the last live performance of drummer Chris Stratigos with the band. A few weeks later, the band used footage from that show combined with new audio recordings and released an official videoclip called "Suicidal Manners (Revisited)". This was the first single under their
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became popular a few years later on the Northern soul scene. In 1968, she recorded further solo singles, on the Major Minor label, and also released an album, "According to St. John", produced by Mike Pasternak, alias Emperor Rosko. She sang with the Les Humphries Singers between 1972 and 1973. St. John was also a background singer on many records, including Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973), the concept album "The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast" (1974), and Andy Fairweather Low's, "La Booga Rooga" (1975). She was used as a session musician by a string of
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Breathe (Pink Floyd song) "Breathe" (sometimes called "Breathe (In The Air)") is a song by progressive rock band Pink Floyd on their 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon". The authorship and composition of this song is credited to David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Roger Waters for the music, and Waters for the lyrics. "Dark Side", admitted the latter, "is a little adolescent and naïve in its preoccupations, but I'm not belittling it. It's like a rather wonderful, naïve painting. 'Breathe in the air / Don't be afraid to care' – that's the opening couplet. Well, yeah, I can
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Dubber Side of the Moon Dubber Side of the Moon is the second dub reggae tribute to the Pink Floyd album, "The Dark Side of the Moon", by New York-based band Easy Star All-Stars. The album features bass-heavy dub remixes by prominent dub producers of its predecessor, Easy Star Records' 2003 release "Dub Side of the Moon". "Dubber Side of the Moon" debuted at #2 on the Billboard Reggae charts. "Great effort. Great remixes. Great album." - Music News "This second re-imagining rightly uses its predecessor as a launch pad while keeping the Floyd's uniquely ambivalent overall mood, but allows
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Dark Side of the Rainbow Dark Side of the Rainbow – also known as Dark Side of Oz or The Wizard of Floyd – refers to the pairing of the 1973 Pink Floyd album "The Dark Side of the Moon" with the visual portion of the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz." In August 1995, the "Fort Wayne (Indiana) Journal Gazette" published the first mainstream media article about the "synchronicity", citing the Usenet discussion group alt.music.pink-floyd. Soon afterward, several fans began creating websites in which they touted the experience and tried to comprehensively catalogue the corresponding moments. A second wave
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Speak to Me "Speak to Me" is the first track on British progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album, "The Dark Side of the Moon", on which it forms an overture. Nick Mason receives a rare solo writing credit for the track, though recollections differ as to the reasons for this. Mason states that he created the track himself, whereas Richard Wright and Roger Waters stated the credit was a "gift" to Mason to give him some publishing income (subsequently regretted by the latter, following his acrimonious departure from the band). A live version is included on "Pulse". The song
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"Rhythm" voted it the seventh most influential progressive drumming album. One of the more notable covers of "The Dark Side of the Moon" is "Return to the Dark Side of the Moon: A Tribute to Pink Floyd". Released in 2006, the album is a progressive rock tribute featuring artists such as Adrian Belew, Tommy Shaw, Dweezil Zappa, and Rick Wakeman. In 2000, The Squirrels released "The Not So Bright Side of the Moon", which features a cover of the entire album. The New York dub collective Easy Star All-Stars released "Dub Side of the Moon" in 2003 and "Dubber Side
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an extra-long concept album with characters, a consistent storyline, and a slight bit of pomposity", it is preceded by the shorter concept albums "Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake" (Small Faces, 1968) and "S.F. Sorrow" (The Pretty Things, 1968). Author Jim Cullen states: "The concept album reached its apogee in the 1970s in ambitious records like Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" (1973) and the Eagles' "Hotel California" (1976)." In 2015, "Rolling Stone" ranked "Dark Side of the Moon" at number one among the 50 greatest progressive rock albums of all-time, also noting the LP's stature as the second best-selling album
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"Discovery" sets. Sometimes bands release expanded versions of their most successful albums such as Pink Floyd's "Immersion" box set versions of their "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973), "Wish You Were Here" (1975) and "The Wall" (1979) albums. Pink Floyd have also released "The Early Years 1965–1972" box set which features mostly unreleased material. Other music box sets focus on a compilation of boxes of different artists from a particular genre such as Big Band jazz, 1960s rock and roll, or opera. They generally feature a large collection of various hits from some of the top artists of a
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Eclipse (song) "Eclipse" is the tenth and final track from British progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album, "The Dark Side of the Moon". It was sung by Roger Waters, with harmonies by David Gilmour and Rick Wright. After Waters left the band, Gilmour sang the lead when performing live. This song was one of several to be considered for the band's "best of" album, "". This song serves as the album's end and features a loud, repetitive melody that builds up, then ends with a very quiet outro. When the main instrumentation ends at 1:30, the sound of a
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album so many times that for the past couple of years, I haven't hardly listened to anything else." Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright said that the chord progressions on the album influenced the structure of the introductory chords to the song "Breathe" on the album "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973). In his book "Kind of Blue: The Making of a Miles Davis Masterpiece", writer Ashley Kahn wrote "still acknowledged as the height of hip, four decades after it was recorded, "Kind of Blue" is the premier album of its era, jazz or otherwise. Its vapory piano introduction is
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added to CD reissues of their debut, New Bottles Old Medicine. "(And The) Pictures in the Sky" was the first hit on the Dandelion label. Hope-Evans left the band for over a year, and Fiddler, Relf (on bass), and drummer John Davies recorded the band's third album and last on Dandelion, "Dark Side of the Moon". It was released in 1972, the year before the Pink Floyd album of the same name. According to Nicholas Schaffner, Pink Floyd briefly changed the name of their piece (which they were already performing live), to "Eclipse", until the Medicine Head album turned out
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On the Run (instrumental) "On the Run" is the third track from British progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album, "The Dark Side of the Moon". It is an instrumental piece performed on an EMS synthesizer (Synthi AKS). It deals with the pressures of travel, which, according to Richard Wright, would often bring fear of death. This piece was created by entering an 8-note sequence into a Synthi AKS synthesiser made by the British synthesiser manufacturer EMS and speeding it up, with an added white noise generator creating the hi-hat sound. The band then added backwards guitar parts, created by
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the re-mixers ideas to take flight." - Angus Taylor, BBC Music "A highly desirable set of beatmakers and dub masters are handling the remixes here..." - David Jeffries, All Music Dubber Side of the Moon Dubber Side of the Moon is the second dub reggae tribute to the Pink Floyd album, "The Dark Side of the Moon", by New York-based band Easy Star All-Stars. The album features bass-heavy dub remixes by prominent dub producers of its predecessor, Easy Star Records' 2003 release "Dub Side of the Moon". "Dubber Side of the Moon" debuted at #2 on the Billboard Reggae charts.
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Live at the Empire Pool Live at the Empire Pool is a live album by the progressive rock band, Pink Floyd, recorded by BBC Radio 1. The album has not been released as a standalone album but has been released in parts as part of other Pink Floyd releases; namely the "Dark Side of the Moon" and "Wish You Were Here" immersion box sets (2011) and "The Early Years 1965-1972" box set (2016). The album was recorded during the British Winter Tour, 1974 at the Empire Pool, Wembley, England. The shows are notable for showcasing an early version of "Shine
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later be extremely successful when Pink Floyd released "The Dark Side of the Moon" in 1973, the best-selling album of the entire progressive rock period". Other methods of tape manipulation used on "Smile" included varispeed. Fifty hours of tape was amassed from a ten-month-long course of album recording sessions. Music sessions occurred mainly at Hollywood recording studios United Western Recorders, Gold Star Studios, Sunset Sound Recorders and CBS Columbia Square. Oftentimes, Chuck Britz and Larry Levine assisted Brian with engineering, who produced every session, while most instrumentation was played by the Wrecking Crew. The vocal sessions for "Smile" were usually
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in late 2002 while several of its founding members were attending Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California. The band first formed with Nate Henry on vocals and bass, Dan Koch on drums, and Chris Armstrong on guitar. The name Sherwood comes from an inside band joke about creating a concept album that synced with the 1973 Disney "Robin Hood" cartoon in the same way that Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon is said to sync with "The Wizard of Oz". In April 2003, the lineup was changed with the addition of drummer Joe Greenetz. Koch became the
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Brain Damage (song) "Brain Damage" is the ninth track from English rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon". It was sung on record by Roger Waters (with harmonies by David Gilmour), who would continue to sing it on his solo tours. Gilmour sang the lead vocal when Pink Floyd performed it live on their 1994 tour (as can be heard on "Pulse"). The band originally called this track "Lunatic" during live performances and recording sessions. When the band reconvened after the American leg of the "Meddle" tour, Roger Waters brought with him a prototype version
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Jethro Tull, Rush, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It reached its peak of popularity in the mid-1970s, but had mixed critical acclaim and the punk movement can be seen as a reaction against its musicality and perceived pomposity. Nevertheless, Pink Floyd's 1973 release, "The Dark Side of the Moon", was an immediate success, remaining in the charts for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988, with an estimated 50 million copies sold. It is Pink Floyd's most commercially successful album and one of the best-selling albums worldwide. It has twice been remastered and re-released, and has been covered in its entirety
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Allmusic characterised the album as the "light side of the moon," referring to Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973), saying it draws the listener into its "own astral plane with a glossy and gauzy sound similar to Pink Floyd without the darkness, or Alan Parsons Project without the dorkiness." He said that Hillage's guitar work is "typically transcendent," Giraudy's keyboards "a vital component" and Joe Blocker's drums "a frequent breath of change." The new age/space ideology on the album has been said to be not far removed from Gong's "original alternate reality" which has been said to
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journalist Paul Williams to be one of the earliest pioneers of sampling. Domenic Priore argued that Brian "manipulated sound effects in a way that would later be extremely successful when Pink Floyd released "The Dark Side of the Moon" in 1973, the best-selling album of the entire progressive rock period." Eschewing Capitol Studios, which Brian considered inadequate, engineer Chuck Britz often collaborated with him at Western 3 of United Western Recorders, also serving as a buffer between Brian and the oft-berating Murry whenever he was present. Once Britz assembled a preliminary recording setup, Brian would take over the console, directing
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the Moon" built upon experiments Pink Floyd had attempted in their previous live shows and recordings, but lacks the extended instrumental excursions which, according to critic David Fricke, had become characteristic of the band after founding member Syd Barrett left in 1968. Gilmour, Barrett's replacement, later referred to those instrumentals as "that psychedelic noodling stuff", and with Waters cited 1971's "Meddle" as a turning-point towards what would be realised on the album. "The Dark Side of the Moon"s lyrical themes include conflict, greed, the passage of time, death, and insanity, the latter inspired in part by Barrett's deteriorating mental state.
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tuning difficulties and the planes flew over before the start of the set. Knebworth was the last time the band would perform "Echoes" and the entire "Dark Side of the Moon" with Roger Waters. A typical 1977 set list would include the following: Encore: In 1977, Pink Floyd embarked on a world tour in support of the "Animals" album. Although the album had not sold as well as their two previous releases, "Dark Side Of The Moon" and "Wish You Were Here", the band's popularity was at an all-time high. The band managed to sell out arenas and stadiums in
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The Dark Side of the Moon Live The Dark Side of the Moon Live was a worldwide concert tour by Roger Waters. Waters and his band performed the titular album in its entirety at each show, beginning at the Rock in Rio festival on 2 June 2006. The tour featured elaborate stage design by Mark Fisher (the architect of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" shows), including giant puppets, large video screen displays and a 360° quadraphonic sound system. The performances were divided into two sets: the first being a collection of Pink Floyd material along with songs from Roger's solo career,
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40 million copies worldwide. It was continuing to sell over 8,000 units every week as of 2005. According to Pink Floyd biographer Glen Povey, "Dark Side of the Moon" is the world's second bestselling album and the United States' 21st-bestselling album. Waters produced thematic ideas that became the impetus for the Pink Floyd concept albums "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973), "Wish You Were Here" (1975), "Animals" (1977) and "The Wall" (1979)—written largely by Waters—and "The Final Cut" (1983)—written entirely by Waters. He referred or alluded to the cost of war and the loss of his father throughout his
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a prism spectrum, representing the band's lighting and the record's themes. "The Dark Side of the Moon" produced two singles: "Money" and "Us and Them". The album topped the "Billboard" chart for a week, and remained on the chart for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988. Following a change in how "Billboard" counts sales in 2009, it re-entered the chart and has since appeared for over 900 weeks. With estimated sales of over 45 million, it is Pink Floyd's bestselling album and one of the bestselling worldwide. It has been remastered and rereleased several times, and covered in its entirety
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Watts starred in the Netflix drama series "Gypsy". She also served as an executive producer on the series, in which she played "a therapist who begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients' lives". "Gypsy" was canceled by Netflix after one season. Her father's laugh can be heard in the Pink Floyd songs "Speak to Me" and "Brain Damage" from their 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon". Watts is pictured in her mother's arms with her father, brother, the band and other crew members, in the hardback/softcover edition of drummer Nick Mason's autobiography
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Obscured by Clouds Obscured by Clouds is the seventh studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, based on their soundtrack for the French film "La Vallée", by Barbet Schroeder. It was released in the United Kingdom on 2 June 1972, and a few weeks later in the United States, by Harvest Records, reaching number 6 and number 46 respectively. A single, "Free Four", was issued in the US only. The album was something of a stopgap for the band, who had already started work on "The Dark Side of the Moon", and was recorded in two sessions
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Radiodread Radiodread is a 2006 tribute album by the Easy Star All-Stars that covers Radiohead's 1997 album "OK Computer" in reggae, ska and dub styles. Their previous release, "Dub Side of the Moon" (2003), is a reggae/dub take on Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon." Easy Star Records CEO Eric Smith and executive producer of the album said: Michael Goldwasser, who produced "Dub Side of the Moon" and produced and arranged "Radiodread": In fact, the band did approve of the album, with Thom Yorke praising it and Jonny Greenwood describing it as "truly astounding". The track listing is
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and wrote that Thirty Seconds to Mars "emerged with an eponymous debut that sounds like Tool on "The Dark Side of the Moon"," referring to the 1973 album by Pink Floyd. Whereas the eponymous concept album's lyrics focus on human struggle and self-determination, "A Beautiful Lie"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s lyrics are more personal and the music introduces screaming vocals. The transformation that resonates throughout the album reflects the personal and artistic changes experienced by the band members before and during the creation of the record. The album widened the band's sound by combining elements from progressive rock, hard rock and emo. Such alternative
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recorded "From the Dark Side of the Moon" for V2 Records. The album, produced by Mark Doyle and David Werner, is an interpretation of Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon". Following the restructuring of V2, the album was put in storage for several years. It was released independently by Fahl in late 2011. In late 2013, Fahl released her latest full-length album, "Love and Gravity". In late 2014 came the 2CD "Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House", and in 2016 "Four Songs", a collection of Italian Arias, available only through her website. The band's self-titled major-label debut
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we'd been playing to 10,000 seaters where, in the quiet passages, you could hear a pin drop." They could now sell out stadiums. On 4 November 1973, Pink Floyd played two shows at London's Rainbow Theatre to benefit musician Robert Wyatt formerly the drummer of Soft Machine, a band they'd played with in their UFO Club days. Wyatt fell from a fourth floor window in June 1973, breaking his back and making him a paraplegic. The set list for these two shows were: Main Set:<br> "The Dark Side of the Moon" entire album<br> Encore: A French Summer Tour set list
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region of the main belt, but rather unusual in the inner parts. "Pink Floyd" has an absolute magnitude of 14.6. As of 2017, no rotational lightcurve of "Pink Floyd" has been obtained from photometric observations. The asteroid's rotation period, spin axis and shape remain unknown. This minor planet was named after the English rock band Pink Floyd, which released several astronomically themed songs such as "Interstellar Overdrive" and "Astronomy Domine". The bands album "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973) became one of the best-selling records of all time. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center
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and Robby Krieger) in the style of the original album. The album features guests mostly from the world of progressive rock, including former Yes members Peter Banks, Geoff Downes, Rick Wakeman, Kaye and Sherwood himself. Return to the Dark Side of the Moon "Not to be confused with the covermount album of the same name with Mojo magazine in 2011" Return to the Dark Side of the Moon is a tribute album organised by Billy Sherwood, and released in 2006 on Purple Pyramid. It is a re-creation of Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon", and a sequel to
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was released on the iTunes Store. In 2011 the album was re-released as part of the Why Pink Floyd...? campaign, featuring a remastered version of the album along with various other material. The success of the album brought wealth to all four members of the band; Richard Wright and Roger Waters bought large country houses, and Nick Mason became a collector of upmarket cars. Some of the profits were invested in the production of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". Engineer Alan Parsons received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical for "The Dark Side of the Moon",
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Pulse (Pink Floyd album) Pulse (stylised as p·u·l·s·e) is a live album by the English rock band Pink Floyd. It was released on 29 May 1995 by EMI in the United Kingdom and on 6 June 1995 by Columbia in the United States. The album was recorded during the European leg of Pink Floyd's Division Bell Tour in 1994. The album includes a complete live version of "The Dark Side of the Moon" and features a booklet with many photographs from performances on this tour. It also features "Astronomy Domine", a Syd Barrett song not performed since the early 1970s.
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Alan Parsons Alan Parsons (born 20 December 1948) is an English audio engineer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He was involved with the production of several significant albums, including the Beatles' "Abbey Road" and "Let It Be", and the art rock band Ambrosia's debut album "Ambrosia" as well as Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" for which Pink Floyd credit him as an important contributor. Parsons' own group, the Alan Parsons Project, as well as his subsequent solo recordings, have also been successful commercially. In October 1967, at the age of 18, Parsons went to work as an
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previously won three and lost on ten occasions. Vitória de Setúbal were making their first Supertaça appearance. In Portugal, the final was televised live on RTP1. Benfica defeated Vitória 1–0 with a goal in the 51st minute from Nuno Gomes, and collected their fourth Supertaça. Benfica were appearing in their 14th Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira. Benfica went into the match as three-time winners of the Supertaça (1980, 1985, 1989). Of their thirteen SuperCup appearances, Benfica had lost on ten occasions (1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2004). Their most recent appearance in the competition saw them lose
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also differs from the Stour in that in its upper reaches it is a chalk stream, and even when it leaves the chalk and flows over acid sands and gravels east of Dorchester, its load of sediment from the chalk is sufficient to counteract the acidity and create fertile pasture and watermeadows. The main tributaries of the Frome are the River Hooke and River Cerne. The River Piddle (alternative name: River Trent) follows a similar and almost parallel course to the Frome, rising a few miles to the east on the chalk downs near the village of Alton Pancras, then
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The paper's original founders and editors included Michael Grossman, Arthur Grosman and former State Department computer programmer William Blum, but the staff went through many changes and by 1969 nobody on the paper was even acquainted with any of the original founders. The paper opposed the war in Vietnam and tended to follow the politics of SDS. "Washington Free Press" reporters insisted on their place in the Washington press corps and demanded entry to briefings and other press events until they were admitted. Topics covered in the paper included the antiwar movement, welfare, police brutality, campus activism at the five
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the cafe bar, he also plans to publish a weekly magazine which will only focus on positive things that are happening in everyday life and the music scene. Edo Maajka released his first single and music video for his third album, named "To mora da je ljubav", before his album came out, in which his producer Koolade used the song "Cissy Strut" from 1969 by The Meters. Some media outlets have criticized him for plagiarizing the music in the song. Edo answered back by saying "Sampling is not stealing. In hip hop you sample music, you take someones beat and
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eccentrically in silk robes. In 1968, the story goes, during a drive to visit a client he was visited by the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses who told him he was the Pharaoh's reincarnation, and he must take up the Pharaoh's message in a musical career. Several early singles (recorded with his wife, whom he renamed Selket or Seleka) failed to make any impact. In 1971, Harvey Lisberg signed Ramases to Vertigo Records, and recorded the album "Space Hymns" at Strawberry Studios in Stockport, backed by Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, who would shortly after form the band
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1947, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland). The single "Time Machine" from that album was successful in Germany, where the band toured extensively. Erskine left the band before they recorded their third album, "Pathfinder" (1972), which included a cover version of Richard Harris' hit "MacArthur Park". Several other personnel changes ensued, with Pete Scott replacing Martin Griffiths in 1972, and Linnie Paterson replacing Pete Scott in 1973. By 1973's final album, "Get Your Dog Off Me", Beggars Opera were reduced to a trio of Gardiner, Park and Sellar. In 1974/76 a new version of Beggars Opera recorded two albums for Jupiter Records in
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a cover of a 1973 song by Lyn Collins and James Brown. "I Love You Too Much" is a re-recorded version from the "Fascination!" EP and "Don't You Know I Want You" is a reworked version of the instrumental B-side "Total Panic!" that appeared on the "(Keep Feeling) Fascination" single in 1983. Side 1 Side 2 Hysteria (The Human League album) Hysteria is the fourth studio album by British synthpop band The Human League, released on 7 May 1984. Following the worldwide success of their 1981 album "Dare", the band struggled to make a successful follow-up and the sessions for
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The Dark Side (DarkSun album) The Dark Side is the third studio album by power metal band DarkSun, which is the English version of "El Lado Oscuro", the album was released in September 2007. "The Dark Side" and was released in September 2007 through FC Metal Recordings. The critics were as good as the Spanish version, like "the album can be defined with one word: brilliant!". The band collaborated on Rage's album "Speak of the Dead", with a Spanish version of the song "Full Moon" entitled "La Luna Reine," which appeared as a bonus track. Just after the release of
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Paul McCartney's Wings 1973 UK Tour. The same year, they also acted as Frankie Miller's band for his debut album "Once in a Blue Moon". Their fifth studio album "Please Don't Ever Change", issued in 1973, was less well received by the critics, and achieved poor sales. However during this time they made successful appearances on The Old Grey Whistle Test with Lowe on guitar and vocals, Gomm on bass and Schwarz on piano alongside Andrews on keyboard and recorded sessions for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show. In 1974 they arranged for Dave Edmunds to produce their sixth album
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with "Eclipse", which espouses the concepts of alterity and unity, while forcing the listener to recognise the common traits shared by humanity. The album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, in two sessions, between May 1972 and January 1973. The band were assigned staff engineer Alan Parsons, who had worked as assistant tape operator on "Atom Heart Mother", and who had also gained experience as a recording engineer on the Beatles' "Abbey Road" and "Let It Be". The recording sessions made use of some of the most advanced studio techniques of the time; the studio was capable of 16-track mixes,
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Title: The Dark Side of the Moon. Content: The Dark Side of the Moon The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1973 by Harvest Records. It built on ideas explored in Pink Floyd's earlier recordings and performances, but without the extended instrumentals that characterised their earlier work. A concept album, its themes explore conflict, greed, time, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by the deteriorating health of founding member Syd Barrett, who left in 1968. Developed during live performances, Pink Floyd premiered an early version of "The Dark Side of the Moon" several
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