Released to coincide with the 30th anniversary of this classic album, learn how Pink Floyd assembled "Dark Side of the Moon" with the aid of original engineer Alan Parsons. All... more
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The Dark Side of the Moon. The Floyd's 1973 masterpiece remained on bestseller charts for nearly 14 years, and its enduring importance is honoured here by all fo...
The Dark Side of the Moon. The Floyd's 1973 masterpiece remained on bestseller charts for nearly 14 years, and its enduring importance is honoured here by all four ...
its first 25 years of release. It continues to be a favourite, with 20 per cent of those sales occurring in the period since it first came out on CD, a medium to which it is ideally suited, especially in its current carefully remastered form. Dark Side Of The Moon was the first album that Pink Floyd decided to break in live before attempting to record, with the debut performance of what they then called Eclipse just over a year before the final release date. When they finally retired to Abbey Road with top sound engineer Alan Parsons, state-of-the-art 16-track recording equipment and the new Dolby technology to hand, it was to produce one of the great pieces of studio art. Covering a range of styles, this was the last album (prior to Roger Waters' departure in the early 1980s) to whose writing the other members of Pink Floyd contributed significantly. Nevertheless, it remains a stunningly coherent package, bound together by surreal fragments of speech (mostly gleaned from asking questions of the doorman at the studio) and Waters' bold and bleak lyrics. Often reputed to be about former member Syd Barrett's decline into schizophrenia, in fact Waters has said the lyrics "were a lot about ordinariness" and dealt with people's responses to the increasing insanity of the pressures of everyday life. Some of the extraordinary sound effects used came from the most unlikely sources--the coins at the start of "Money" from Waters tossing handfuls of change into an industrial food-mixer that his wife, a potter, used to mix clay. Whatever the medium, a new standard for attention to detail and production values had been set and the world of studio recording would never be the same again.--James Swift
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Advantages: Take you to the moon and back Disadvantages: Should have been longer
...purely of interveiws of each pink floyd member and also the exclusive performances of the themes and songs from the album by David Gilmour Roger Waters and Richard Write. such as The great gig in the sky Us and them Breathe money and more.
This DVD also has clips from when they were performing The Darkside Of The Moon on tour and also clips from David gilmour playing time in the studio. ...
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Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon (Wide Screen)
Main specs
Actor(s): Pink Floyd
Genre: Documentaries & Biographies - Entertainment Documentary
Classification: Exempt
Production Year: 2003
Running Time: 1 hour 24 minutes
Video Category: Television
Plot: A unique insight into the music and the artists, the development through to recording, release and public reaction to a series of albums which have, in effect, shaped the course of popular music over the last thirty years. Features the tracks 'Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun', 'Echoes', 'Breathe', 'On The Run', 'Time', 'The Great Gig In The Sky', 'Money', 'Us And Them', 'Brain Damage' and 'Eclipse'.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 0 (All Regions)
Studio(s): EAGLE ROCK ENTERTAINMENT; PINNACLE VISION
Released to coincide with the 30th anniversary of this classic album, learn how Pink Floyd assembled "Dark Side of the Moon" with the aid of original engineer Alan Parsons. All four band members --Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright-- are interviewed at length, giving valuable insights into the recording process. The themes of the album are discussed at length, and the band take you back to the original multi track tapes to illustrate how they pieced together the songs. With individual performances of certain tracks from Roger, David, and Richard included, this is an essential purchase for any Pink Floyd fans, and a fascinating artefact for rock historians everywhere.
Technical information
Special Features: Solo Acoustic Version Of Brain Damage Performed By Roger Waters, Solo Acoustic Performance Of Breathe By Dave Gilmour, Original Demo Recording Of Time, Gerry Has The Last Word
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Wide Screen
Sound: Dolby Digital Stereo
Dubbing Sound: Dolby Digital Stereo English
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