The Story Of The Dark Side Of The Moon

thanks 1972 was a very busy year for Pink Floyd. January began with rehearsals and early testing of Dark of the Moon at the Dome Brighton, which was interrupted during the song Money due to technical problems oh ok, the tour was a success as they shaped. and developed the

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project. In February, Jovi's band Chateau made the cloud-obscured soundtrack. Tours of Japan and North America and the start of recording at Abbey Road followed. Next up was a European tour with the Roland Petty Ballet Company. From January to February 73 there were more sessions at Abbey Road Studios to complete the album Dark Side of the Moon was an expression of humanitarian philosophical political empathy that was desperate to get out of the

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I think it felt like the whole band was working together, it was a very creative experience. At that time we are also very open, I think because we still had a common goal, the four of us were there and there was a discussion about how to put the album together and turn it into this theme, so I refer to what is now called the concept. album in the context of March 1973, when Dark Side of Moon was released, there were several reasons why it was so innovative, such a new work, meticulously recorded at Abbey Road studios two and three in the space of a year, still some important. themes particularly from the mind of Roger Waters and the rest of the band Madness isolation alienation sadness are in fact presented to you as a listener with music that is often very warm and quite happy, there are a number of things that affect an individual in that colors your vision of existence, there are pressures that are capable of pushing you in one direction or another, whether they push you towards madness, death, empathy, greed, whatever this album is about, about which Pink Floyd started doing on their previous two albums and really succeeded.

Making on the Dark Side of the Moon was finding a way to tie together not just a whole side of an album but everything from the beginning to the end, breathing, breathing the air, not being afraid to care, in fact, I think that within the context of the music and within the context of the piece, people as a whole are willing to accept that simple exhortation to be prepared to stand your ground and try to live your life in an authentic way. I think it was a very, very happy and creative experience. and nice when we made this album, it was probably the most concentrated time of our career in terms of us all working together like hell.

I can clearly remember that moment when we sat down and listened to the whole mix until the end. Thinking, my God, we've really done something fantastic here, there's nothing plastic about it, you know, there's nothing artificial about it and I think that's what has given it its longevity, or maybe one of the things that has given it given its longevity. I love cheese, the album came out well. to number one on the Billboard chart and has since sold more than 45 million copies worldwide remaining in the top 200 list for 33 years there is no dark side to the

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it is really a fact, everything is a doubt The Dark tour Side of the Moon was the beginning of what Roger Waters called Electric Theater and by that he meant the inclusion of a large circular screen at the back of the stage, cranes that moved lights everywhere while touching dry ice that flowed throughout the front of the stage and towards the audience there.

There were a lot of effects, particularly with their surround sound system, this set them apart from any other band and this is what made Pink Floyd So Special in 1973. I came to work in London, I got a job in an animation studio and there was a guy there that They said you should show the Pink Floyd movie and then I got the call from the manager. They wanted me to do the Dark Side of the Moon time sequence. Up to that point they hadn't used any animation, but I guess what they saw or was the possibility of having something that was structured, something that was spatial and something that was more connected to their foreign music, if you think about it, right?

I mean, even the way those clocks are drawn is a bit like Darla's melted clocks hanging off the edges. of sticks or tables back in the day when circle calls were used, it's something that works well because you're playing somewhere with a proscenium or no proscenium, it gives you the surrounding part, it's not dictated by I think Darkseid was the first tour in 1974, they did a British tour and allowed four photographers to accompany them backstage and in front of the house while I mobbed Thorson, Peter Christopherson and Jill Furmanovsky and Jill Furmanovsky, who took most of the photographs. a new book the best thing about this type of documentary photography is that you get used to it and then you are invisible and that is what you really want.

I didn't feel completely alone as a woman on the road and I was already used to working. Mainly with the men and I always made it a point to be friendly with the road crew because they are actually the ones controlling the exits and opening the doors instead of the band. I mean, the band does something like that in its own world, really unique at the time. technically they were breaking all these boundaries, it was a totally immersive experience. One of the images shows Rick ducking as the plane passes over him. I mean, you had the feeling that you might as well be shot down by this approaching plane and then the sound.

Then it echoed everywhere. I love these two silhouettes of the audience forming a pyramid. Pink Floyd had a very reverent audience, you know, like they went to a classical music concert. They sat almost silently and were deeply respectful. This is how I remember the audience these two girls are barefoot, very young, one has her eyes closed and often other planners and the other is equally in love, that sums up the effect of the music so beautifully. That particular extension is one of my favorites, it was a really good moment. For the band, everyone was at their best, they seemed to enjoy everything, I mean they were very sporty at that time, so they all played squash or tennis and Cricket in the summer, and so on, the storm would make me go up, so you already know. oh, Rogers playing golf tomorrow around eight in the morning, you want to go to that and then there's a backgammon game in room 320, so you head to that, this is from the after show, it's storming David and Roger. these photos remind me of that camaraderie that was a very happy tour abroad not being on our covers ourselves not having photos it's probably the most recognizable album cover of all time something you can sit and look at for a long time without getting sick of it , the prism is the logo that absolutely defines the album.

One day I was sitting in the studio and I was flipping through a book that is about the refraction of light or light and color, this book was an inspiration and the storm looked at me and said: I can see an image of a white light hitting a triangle and bursting into a rainbow. The Dark Side of the Moon Prism design comes from three basic ingredients, one of which is the light show the band put on, so I was trying to represent that as well. The themes of the lyrics, which were, I think about ambition and greed, and thirdly, it was a response to Rick Wright, who said that he wanted something simple, bold and dramatic.

I drew it on a piece of paper with crowns, it was very amateurish and we took It Depends from Abbey Road Studios they showed it to the band they came in and they looked around and went to that one. I remember instantly seeing the pyramid. Each one did that. That's what we want. That's the one everyone immediately got cool about. Great, let's do that. As summed up in your ability to cast it so quickly and easily, I just think it's very appropriate in some ways. I mean, it's hard to imagine it without him, isn't it? After 50 years, the problem is how that symbol is created or recreated. in a new packaging and for that I turned to Pentagram s.

There's something raw about this, so this was the original inspiration for the Dark of the Moon 50th anniversary box set and it came from the theme being in the dark.

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side of Egyptology and so the whole notion of a sarcophagus with all its sarcophagi hidden inside it was just a perfect metaphor for the same idea, it also gave us the notion of gold and this is my first original sketch that I try to solve. how that box could relate to a sarcophagus so you can see each part of the box opening and folding, revealing another box inside it and all the way is a journey to this central golden box containing the original album and a live album of the Dark Side 1974. of the Moon tour the next thing we did was this three-dimensional visualization of the expanded set of boxes and this gives us this kind of shape that we then turned into real three-dimensional mockups throughout the different layers until the end. golden box inside the bigger box and moving in my own life behind you no one told you when to run, you lost