PINK FLOYD - DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (DSOTM) France 12" Vinyl LP Album

Album description:

The French release LP of DSOTM is unique for several reasons. The cover features a prism on a black background, with the album's catalognr in the top left corner. This design was created by Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis, who were responsible for several of Pink Floyd’s album covers.

Another distinctive feature of the French release LP is the inclusion of an additional track, “Eclipse,” which was not included in the original UK release. This track serves as the album’s closing number, and it includes a reprise of the song “Brain Damage,” which was the penultimate track on the original release.

The French release LP of DSOTM had a significant impact on music culture. The album’s unique artwork and additional track made it a collector’s item for Pink Floyd fans. The album’s popularity also helped to cement Pink Floyd’s reputation as one of the most innovative and experimental bands of the era. DSOTM was a critical and commercial success, and it remains one of the best-selling albums of all time. 

Produced by Pink Floyd. Recorded Abbey Road Studios London. Engineer: Alan Parsons, Peter Jones. Sleeve design: Hipgnosis, George Hardie. All lyrics by Roger Waters  

Gatefold/FOC (Fold Open Cover) Album Cover Design

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 Record Label: 

EMI 2C 068-05.249 

 Record Format

12" Vinyl LP Record  

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Band Members and Musicians on: Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (DSOTM)

Pink Floyd Band: members/musicians
• Roger Waters - bass, vocals
• Roger Waters – Bass, vocals, songwriter

  Roger Waters is the guy I blame (politely) when a Pink Floyd song stops being “spacey vibes” and starts staring straight through you with lyrics that feel like a courtroom cross-examination. Read more...

  Roger Waters is, to my ears, Pink Floyd’s razor-edged storyteller: bassist, singer, and the main lyric engine who pushed the band from psychedelic drift into big, human-scale themes. His key band period is Pink Floyd (1965–1985), where he became the dominant writer through the 1970s and early 1980s, before leaving and launching a long solo career (1984–present). After years of public tension, he briefly reunited with Pink Floyd for a one-off performance at Live 8 in London on 2 July 2005—basically the musical equivalent of spotting a comet: rare, bright, and gone again. Since the late 1990s he’s toured extensively under his own name, staging huge concept-driven shows that revisit Floyd classics like "The Dark Side of the Moon" (notably on the 2006–2008 tour) and "The Wall" (2010–2013), because apparently subtlety is not the point when you’ve got something to say.

  Roger Waters Wiki
• Nick Mason - percusssion
• Nick Mason – Drums, percussion

  Nick Mason is the steady heartbeat I always come back to in Pink Floyd: the only constant member since the band formed in 1965, quietly holding the whole weird universe together while the rest of the planet argues about everything else. Read more...

  Nick Mason is Pink Floyd’s drummer, co-founder, and the one guy who never clocked out: his main performing period with Pink Floyd runs from 1965 to the present, and he’s the only member to appear across every Pink Floyd album. Outside the mothership, he’s had a very “I’m not done yet” second act: in 2018 he formed Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets (2018–present) to bring the band’s early psychedelic years back to the stage. He’s also stepped out under his own name with projects like the solo album "Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports" (released 1981), which is basically him taking a left turn into jazz-rock just to prove he can. And yes, he was part of that blink-and-you-miss-it full-band moment at Live 8 in London in 2005, when the classic lineup briefly reunited and reminded everyone why this band still haunts people.

  Nick Mason Wiki
• Dave Gilmour - Guitar, vocals
• David Gilmour – Guitar, vocals

  David Gilmour is the voice-and-fingers combo I hear whenever Pink Floyd turns from “spacey” into straight-up cinematic: he joined in 1967 and basically helped define what “guitar tone with emotions” even means. Read more...

  David Gilmour is, for me, the calm center of Pink Floyd’s storm: an English guitarist, singer, and songwriter whose playing can feel gentle and devastating in the same bar. His earliest band period worth name-dropping is Jokers Wild (1964–1967), before he stepped into Pink Floyd in 1967 as Syd Barrett’s situation unraveled. From there his main performing era is Pink Floyd (1967–1995), including the post-Roger Waters years where the band continued under his leadership and released "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" (1987) and "The Division Bell" (1994), with a later studio coda in "The Endless River" (2014). Outside Floyd, he’s had a long solo run (1978–present) with albums ranging from "David Gilmour" (1978) to "Luck and Strange" (2024), and he even did a sharp side-quest in 1985 with Pete Townshend’s short-lived supergroup Deep End. And for one historic night, the classic lineup reunited at Live 8 in Hyde Park, London on 2 July 2005—one of those “you had to be there (or at least press play)” moments.

  David Gilmour Wiki
• Richard Wright - keyboards, vocals
• Richard Wright – Keyboards, vocals

  Richard Wright is the secret atmosphere machine in Pink Floyd: the guy who can make one chord feel like a whole weather system, and then casually add a vocal harmony that makes it hit even harder. Read more...

  Richard Wright (born Richard William Wright) is, for me, the understated genius of Pink Floyd: co-founder, keyboardist, and occasional lead vocalist whose textures are basically baked into the band’s DNA. His main performing period with Pink Floyd runs from 1965 to 1981 (including the early albums through the massive arena years), then he returned as a full member again from 1987 to 1994 for the later era tours and albums. In between those chapters, he didn’t just vanish into a fog machine: he released a solo album, "Wet Dream" (1978), and later "Broken China" (1996), and he also had a proper side-project moment with Zee (1983–1984), which produced the album "Identity" (1984). He passed away in 2008, but his playing still feels like the part of Pink Floyd that makes the air shimmer.

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• Guest performers:
• Dick Parry
• Dick Parry – Saxophone, session musician

  Dick Parry is the reason “Money” and “Us and Them” don’t just groove… they glow. He’s that classy, human burst of sax that turns Pink Floyd’s big cosmic machine into something that breathes. Read more...

  Dick Parry (real name: Richard Parry) is an English saxophonist and lifelong “secret weapon” in the Pink Floyd universe. His main performing timeline starts with his early career in the Cambridge scene (he began with The Soul Committee in the mid-1960s), and then the famous chapter: Pink Floyd brought him in for landmark studio moments, including the sax parts on "Money" and "Us and Them" on "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973), plus "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" on "Wish You Were Here" (1975). Live-wise, he wasn’t a one-night cameo either: he played in Pink Floyd’s live shows between 1973 and 1977, returned for the 1994 world tour, and even added keyboards on parts of the 1977 "In the Flesh" tour. Outside Floyd-land, he also toured as part of The Who’s brass section on their 1979–1980 tours, because apparently he collects legendary bands the way I collect pressings.

  Dick Parry Wiki
• Doris Troy
• Leslie Duncan
• Liza Strike
• Barry St John
• Clare Torry

Complete Track Listing of: Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (DSOTM)

Side One:
1. Speak To Me
2. Breathe
3. On the Run
4. Time
5. The Great Gig in the Sky

Side Two:
1. Money
2. US and Them
3. Any Colour You Like
4. Brain Damage
5. Eclipse

Album Cover Photo Gallery of: Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (DSOTM)

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