Pink Floyd Album Notches Up More Chart History
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Pink Floyd album 'Dark Side of the Moon' has notched up another enormous feat, by becoming the first album to spend a total of 1500 weeks on the American Billboard charts.
The classic album, which was recorded at Abbey Road studios in 1972, was released the following year and spent a consecutive 736 weeks in the Top 200.
The album has since gone on to spend a further 759 weeks on the charts.
It is believed that the album has sold in excess of 40 million copies worldwide.
Roger Waters though always felt he had something special on his hands when the album was created way back 33 years ago.
He tells Billboard.com, "When the record was finished, I took a reel-to-reel copy home with me, and I remember playing it for my wife and her bursting into tears when it was finished. "I thought, 'This has obviously struck a chord.' I was kinda pleased by that. I thought to myself, 'Wow, this is a pretty complete piece of work,' and I had every confidence that people would respond to it."
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Guitar World Legends presents Classic Rock, No. 16
GW: What was [producer/engineer] Chris Thomas's role on Dark Side of the Moon?
Gilmour: Chris Thomas came in for the mixes, and his role was essentially to stop the arguments between me and Roger about how it should be mixed. I wanted Dark Side to be big and swampy and wet, with reverbs and things like that. And Roger was very keen on it being a very dry album. I think he was influenced a lot by John Lennon's first solo album [Plastic Ono Band], which was very dry. We argued so much that it was suggested we get a third opinion. We were going to leave Chris to mix it on his own, with Alan Parsons engineering. And of course on the first day I found out that Roger sneaked in there. So the second day I sneaked in there. And from then on, we both sat right at Chris's shoulder, interfering. But luckily, Chris was more sympathetic to my point of view than he was to Roger's.
History of Rock 'n' Roll: David Gilmour
QUESTION: Can you give me an idea of the roles that were being played in the recording studio? What were, perhaps, Roger's strong points that he brought to a song, and what things do you believe you brought to it?
DAVID GILMOUR: I think I tend to bring musicality and melodies. Roger was certainly a very good motivator and obviously a great lyricist. He was much more ruthless about musical ideas, where he'd be happy to lose something if it was for the greater good of making the whole album work. So, you know, Roger'd be happy to make a lovely sounding piece of music disappear into radio sound if it was benefiting the whole piece. Whereas, I would tend to want to retain the beauty of that music. We often had long bitter arguments about these things.
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Dave Gilmour In Anti-Capitalism Outburst
Former Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour has had a rant about the unfairness of capitalism, outlining the differences in earnings between celebrities and other occupations.
Gilmour, who sang the Floyd track 'Money', says his earnings are "perverse" compared to other professions.
Gilmour said "I do feel uncomfortable with the degree of wealth that comes with the territory I occupy. "
"We live in a capitalist society, I suppose, and it's only a matter of supply and demand. "
"And I do look at other bands and think, well, we are a fuck of a sight better than them. "
"But it is extraordinarily perverse that I as a musician am paid so much more than, say, a doctor, or a nurse, or a teacher."
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