Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon" Pic Disk LP Sealed

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  Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon (Pic Disk) LP (US)   Description: The Dark Side of the Moon A live performance The Dark Side of the Moon at Earls Court, shortly after its release in 1973. (l-r) David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Richard Wright, Roger Waters

The band's next album, titled The Dark Side of the Moon (an allusion to lunacy, rather than astronomy), was recorded between May 1972 and January 1973 with EMI staff engineer Alan Parsons at Abbey Road. Late in the album's production Parsons was assisted by producer Chris Thomas, who became responsible for significant changes such as the echo used on "Us and Them". The album's packaging was designed by Hipgnosis and bore George Hardie's iconic refracting prism on the cover. Since Barrett's departure the burden of lyrical composition had fallen mostly on Waters and he is therefore credited as the author of the album's lyrics. The band filmed studio footage for Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii before beginning a tour of Europe in 1972.

The Dark Side of the Moon was released in March 1973 and became an instant chart success in Britain and throughout Western Europe. The critical reaction was generally enthusiastic. Melody Maker's Roy Hollingworth described side one as "...so utterly confused with itself it was difficult to follow," but praised side two writing, "The songs, the sounds, the rhythms were solid and sound, Saxophone hit the air, the band rocked and rolled, and then gushed and tripped away into the night." In his 1973 album review for Rolling Stone magazine, Lloyd Grossman wrote, "a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement." Throughout March 1973 it featured as part of their US tour, including a midnight performance at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on 17 March.

The success of the album brought previously unknown wealth to all four members of the band. Richard Wright and Roger Waters bought large country houses while Nick Mason became a collector of expensive cars. Much of the album's early state-side success has been attributed to the efforts of Pink Floyd's US record company, Capitol Records. Newly appointed chairman Bhaskar Menon reversed the relatively poor performance of the band's previous US releases but, disenchanted with Capitol, the band and manager O'Rourke negotiated a new contract with Columbia Records. The Dark Side of the Moon was the last album that Pink Floyd were obliged to release before formally signing a new contract. Menon's efforts to secure a contract renewal with Pink Floyd were in vain and the band signed for Columbia, with a reported advance fee of US$1M ($4,942,149 today), while in Britain and Europe they continued to be represented by Harvest Records.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd returned to the studio in January 1975. Alan Parsons had declined the band's offer to continue working with them, instead becoming successful in his own right with The Alan Parsons Project, and so the band turned to Brian Humphries with whom they had already worked on More. The group initially found it difficult to devise any new material, especially as the success of The Dark Side of the Moon had left all four physically and emotionally drained. Richard Wright later described these early sessions as "falling within a difficult period" and Waters found them "torturous". Gilmour was more interested in improving the band's existing material. Mason's marriage was failing leaving him in a general malaise and with a sense of apathy, both of which interfered with his drumming.

It was a very difficult period I have to say. All your childhood dreams had been sort of realised and we had the biggest selling records in the world and all the things you got into it for. The girls and the money and the fame and all that stuff it was all ... everything had sort of come our way and you had to reassess what you were in it for thereafter, and it was a pretty confusing and sort of empty time for a while ...

Despite the lack of creative direction Waters began to visualise a new concept after several weeks. During 1974 they had sketched out three new compositions and had performed them at a series of concerts in Europe. These new compositions became the starting point for a new album whose opening four-note guitar phrase, composed entirely by accident by Gilmour, reminded Waters of the lingering ghost of former band-member Syd Barrett. The songs provided an apt summary of the rise and fall of their former band mate: "Because I wanted to get as close as possible to what I felt ... that sort of indefinable, inevitable melancholy about the disappearance of Syd." While the band were working on the album Barrett made an impromptu visit to the studio, during which Thorgerson recalled that he "sat round and talked for a bit but he wasn't really there." He had changed in appearance and the band did not initially recognise him, Waters was reportedly deeply upset by the experience. Barrett eventually left without saying goodbye and none of the band members ever saw him again, apart from a run-in between Waters and Barrett a couple of years later. Some of the material also contained barely veiled attacks on the music business. "Raving and Drooling" and "Gotta Be Crazy" had no place in the new concept and were set aside. Storm Thorgerson concealed the album cover artwork with a dark-coloured shrink-wrap. The cover image was inspired by the idea that people tend to conceal their true feelings, for fear of "getting burned", and thus two businessmen were pictured shaking hands with one man on fire.

Much of Wish You Were Here was premièred on 5 July 1975 at an open-air music festival at Knebworth before being released in September that year. It reached number one in Britain and the US, along with positive reviews; Robert Christgau wrote: "... the music is not only simple and attractive, with the synthesiser used mostly for texture and the guitar breaks for comment, but it actually achieves some of the symphonic dignity (and cross-referencing) that The Dark Side of the Moon simulated so ponderously."

Year/Label/Number: 1978/Capitol Records/SEAX-11902 (US)   Conditions:   Jacket/Sleeve: Mint (Still Sealed)   Vinyl: Mint (Still Sealed)   Track Listing:   A1 Speak To Me 1:30 A2 Breathe 2:43 A3 On The Run 3:30 A4 Time 6:53 A5 The Great Gig In The Sky 4:15 B1 Money 6:30 B2 Us And Them 7:34 B3 Any Colour You Like 3:24 B4 Brain Damage 3:50 B5 Eclipse 1:45   there is a bit of glare from the camera in the photo, its not a defect in the cover.......   All Items listed in the auction are LPs unless otherwise stated.  

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• wol = writing on label
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• promo stamp = usually gold embossed notice on jacket

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