Pink Floyd
The Dark Side of the Moon: Clare Torry's Great Gig in the SkyFriday, 01 March 2013The Dark Side of the Moon and Frankie Howerd’s Roman-era television farce Up Pompeii! aren’t as unlikely bedfellows as it first seems. The link comes from Clare Torry, whose voice opened the show each week. She also provided the unrestrained vocal... Read more... |
The Dark Side of the Moon: Dub Side of the MoonTuesday, 26 February 2013There's a lot about stoner culture that smacks of earnestness, and The Dark Side of the Moon has been at the heart of a good deal of that. The number of long, dreary, late-night conversations that must have taken place over “doobs” and “munchies”... Read more... |
The Dark Side of the Moon: the Amazon Surf versionTuesday, 26 February 2013There are numerous tribute versions of The Dark Side of the Moon, by everybody from jazzers to electronica merchants, but the Amazon Surf version must be the most esoteric. Amazon Surf music is one of the more curious music phenomenona I've... Read more... |
The Dark Side of the Moon: A CounterblastMonday, 25 February 2013In March 1973, John Lennon was 33. Elvis was 38. There was barely a musician, in the sense we understand it, over 40. No one with a mortgage – or hardly anyone – was into rock’n’roll. The Dark Side of the Moon changed all that. It made rock middle-... Read more... |
The Dark Side of the Moon: Introducing ProgSunday, 24 February 2013In 1973 certain world events carved themselves, a bit like the faces on Mount Rushmore, deep into the landscape of the late 20th century. No sooner had Richard Nixon begun to end the Vietnam War than Watergate broke. In the autumn Allende was... Read more... |
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here, BBC FourSaturday, 26 May 2012We now know that David Cameron's favourite album is Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, although there is a theory that he only picked it to avoid having to give the true answer, which is The Queen is Dead by The Smiths. Clearly this would have been... Read more... |
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