Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon Harvest SHVL 804 A11/B11 1973 UK 5th Press
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Pink Floyd ? "The Dark Side Of The Moon" Harvest ? SHVL 804 Vinyl, LP, Fifth Press, Gatefold Sleeve, issued in 1973.
Vinyl is immaculate and appears to have been very lightly played. Sleeve is also in great condition with minimal wear. Album comes complete with both posters and two stickers. Lovely item.
Fifth issue: these have matrices from A-3 GDA 3 / B-3 PL 1 to A-11 37 HTM / B-10 1 1
Labels have a non-solid blue triangle with EMI logo to the left and Harvest to the right. ? 1973 The Gramophone Company Limited
Issued in a gatefold sleeve with two A2-sized posters and two stickers.
The cat# 1E 064 o 05249 appears very small on the back cover. The logos and text at the inner spread, bottom left has a white colour,
The Dark Side of the Moon is Pink Floyd's eighth studio album, released on 1 March 1973. It built on ideas explored in the band's earlier recordings and live shows, but lacks the extended instrumental excursions that characterised their work following the departure in 1968 of founder member, principal composer, and lyricist, Syd Barrett. The themes on The Dark Side of the Moon include conflict, greed, the passage of time, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by Barrett's deteriorating mental state.
Developed during live performances, an early version of the suite was premiered several months before studio recording began; new material was recorded in two sessions in 1972 and 1973 at Abbey Road Studios in London. The group used some of the most advanced recording techniques of the time, including multitrack recording and tape loops. Analogue synthesizers were given prominence in several tracks, and a series of recorded interviews with the band's road crew and others provided the philosophical quotations used throughout. Engineer Alan Parsons was responsible for some of the album's most notable sonic aspects and the recruitment of non-lexical singer Clare Torry. The album's iconic sleeve, designed by Storm Thorgerson, features a prism that represents the band's stage lighting, the record's lyrical themes, and keyboardist Richard Wright's request for a "simple and bold" design.
The Dark Side of the Moon was an immediate success; it topped the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart for one week and remained 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 by several other acts. It produced two singles, "Money" and "Time". The Dark Side of the Moon is Pink Floyd's most popular album among fans and critics, and has been ranked as one of the greatest albums of all time.
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. The album re-appeared on the Billboard charts with the introduction of the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart in May 1991, and has been a perennial feature since then. In the UK it is the eighth-best-selling album of all time. One in every fourteen people in the US under the age of 50 is estimated to own, or to have owned, a copy.
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