Classic Rock’s biggest album of all time, Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon”, is celebrating it’s 45th anniversary this Thursday. Dark Side recently was voted the all-time greatest album by the readers of England’s Classic Rock magazine. It was one of two Floyd albums to make the Top 10, with Wish You Were Here landed at number-five. This is an album that also had a decent bump in sales this past summer thanks to the total eclipse on August 21 2017.
Dark Side of the Moon was released on March 1st 1973 and was the eighth studio album from the band, it produced two singles “Money” and “Us and Them’, it is Pink Floyd’s most successful album and one of the best selling albums of all time and is often ranked as one of the greatest albums of all time.
I’m pretty sure I wasn’t even thought when Dark Side was released, but after my first introduction to Pink Floyd in my youth (The Wall) I have long been a fan and is something that always seems to surprise people about me. I’m not even really sure when or how I herd my first Pink Floyd song, no one in my family was ever into rock music, but the moment I herd “Another Brick In The Wall” I was hooked. There was just something about the band that the drew me in, but I didn’t develop a really good appreciation for all of their music/albums until I was a bit older.
You also can’t talk about this album without mentioning the album cover, again I think its just one of the most iconic album covers in history. The prism design represents three elements: the band’s stage lighting, the album lyrics, and Richard Wright’s request for a “simple and bold” design.
With all that said Pink Floyd has always been one of our staple artist here at WGLO, naturally we must celebrate this occasion the best way we can, by playing the ENTIRE ALBUM at 6pm this THURSDAY night with NO interruptions!
~Anna Kinkade
