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Roger Waters has unveiled the first sample of music from his controversial reworking of Pink Floyd‘s classic The Dark Side Of The Moon. The 52-second clip was uploaded to YouTube and features footage of Waters in the studio listening to the new version of Us And Them.
“When we recorded the stripped down songs for the Lockdown Sessions, the 50th anniversary of the release of Dark Side of The Moon was looming on the horizon,” says Waters. “It occurred to to me that Dark Side of the Moon could well be a suitable candidate for a similar re-working, partly as a tribute to the original work, but also to re-address the political and emotional message of the whole album.
“I discussed it with Gus and Sean [musician/producer Gus Seyffer and collaborator Sean Evans], and when we’d stopped giggling and shouting ‘You must be fucking mad’ at one another we decided to take it on. We are now in the process of finishing the final mix. It’s turned out really great and I’m excited for everyone to hear it.
“It’s not a replacement for the original which, obviously, is irreplaceable. But it is a way for the seventy nine year old man to look back across the intervening fifty years into the eyes of the twenty nine year old and say, to quote a poem of mine about my Father, ‘We did our best, we kept his trust, our Dad would have been proud of us’. And also it is a way for me to honour a recording that Nick and Rick and Dave and I have every right to be very proud of.”
News of the reworking was originally announced during an interview Waters undertook with the Daily Telegraph, during which he told writer Tristram Fane Saunders, “I wrote The Dark Side of the Moon. Let’s get rid of all this ‘we’ crap! Of course we were a band, there were four of us, we all contributed – but it’s my project and I wrote it. So… blah!”
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PINK FLOYD A Nice Pair (1973 UK first issue 18-track double LP repackaging of 'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn' & 'A Saucerful Of Secrets', with 'Gramophone Co' perimeter label texts & EMI logos, including the original artwork inner sleeves & housed in the withdrawn first issue 'W.R. Phang Dental Surgeon' gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just a little edge scuffing & the vinyl remains near 'as new' with little sign of play SHDW403)
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PINK FLOYD Relics (1978 UK 11-track LP compilation, the first edition under this catalogue number, including See Emily Play & Arnold Layne amongst other classics, front laminated picture sleeve. The sleeve is Excellent with a little light discolouring to the back & the vinyl grades Excellent with minimal play MFP50397)
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PINK FLOYD The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1979 UK issue of the classic 1967 11-track vinyl LP on the 'two box' EMI logo label with 'EMI Records Ltd' perimeter text. The front-laminated picture sleeve shows minimal wear with just a few light spots of foxing to the reverse and the vinyl is Near Mint, a really outstanding copy SCX6157) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
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THE PINK FLOYD See Emily Play (Classic 1967 UK solid centre 7" vinyl single, also including Scarecrow. This was The Pink Floyd's second single and the one that saw both the end of the beginning & the beginning of the end for Syd Barrett, who was out of the band by the end of the following year. Issued in a Columbia company die cut paper sleeve, the vinyl is excellent with just the lightest evidence of any play - a very nice copy of this legendary release! DB8214)
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