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Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know
1. Dark Side of the Moon was the first Pink Floyd album to feature Roger Waters as its sole lyricist.
2. The album was very nearly called Eclipse. From the beginning, the band had intended to call their new album Dark Side of the Moon - a reference to lunacy, as opposed to outer space - but when British heavy blues rockers Medicine Head released an album of the same name in 1972, it caused the Floyd to rechristen their project as Eclipse.
3. Floyd fans were first treated to Dark Side of the Moon in concert more than a year before the album was actually released.
4. The original live arrangement of “On the Run” bore little resemblance to the electronic freakout on the record.
5. “Money” was influenced by Booker T and the MGs.
6. Paul McCartney’s contributions to the album were deleted - but the Beatles made a surprise appearance on the record.
7. “Us and Them” was a reject from the Zabriskie Point soundtrack.
8. An image of the Silver Surfer was originally considered for the album’s cover.
9. Dark Side of the Moon was the first Pink Floyd album to break into the US Top 40.
10. Proceeds from the album helped fund Monty Python and the Holy Grail.